Hi,
The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in January 2013 is now
available.
Wiki version:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/January
Blog version:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/07/engineering-january-2013-report/
We're also proposing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this
report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/January/summary
Below is the full HTML text of the report, as previously requested.
As always, feedback is appreciated about the usefulness of the report and
its summary, and on how to improve them.
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Major news in January include:
- the successful migration of our main
serviceshttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/19/wikimedia-sites-move-to-primary-data-center-in-ashburn-virginia/to
our data center in Ashburn, Virginia;
- new
featureshttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/11/mobile-beta-a-sandbox-for-new-experimental-features/available
in our mobile beta;
- progress on input
methodshttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/25/language-engineering-progress-with-input-methods-and-translation-editor/and
our upcoming translation
interfacehttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/11/a-more-efficient-translation-interface/
;
- the announcement of
GeoDatahttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/31/geodata-a-new-age-of-geotagging-on-wikipedia/,
a feature to attach geo-coordinates to Wikipedia and Wikivoyage articles;
- a testing event to assess how VisualEditor handles non-Latin
charactershttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/28/help-us-test-and-investigate-visualeditor/
.
*Note: We're also proposing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of
this
reporthttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/January/summarythat
does not assume specialized technical knowledge.
*
Personnel Work with us https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us
Are you looking to work for Wikimedia? We have a lot of hiring coming up,
and we really love talking to active community members about these roles.
- Software Engineer - Editor
Engagementhttp://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=ovvXWfwD
- Technical Writer -
(Contract)http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=oGH5Wfw8
- Software Developer -
Fundraisinghttp://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=oF2EWfw1
- Software Engineer
(Partners)http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=oX2hWfwW
- Software Engineer
(Apps)http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=oqU0Wfw0
- Software Developer General
(Mobile)http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=o4cKWfwG
- Software Engineer -
Multimediahttp://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=oj40Wfw3
- Software Engineer
(Search)http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=ogk1Wfwh
- Product Manager
(Mobile)http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=oGWJWfw1
- Director of User
Experiencehttp://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=otv0WfwE
- Visual Designer http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=oomJWfw9
- Operations Engineerhttp://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=ocLCWfwf
- Operations Engineer/Database
Administratorhttp://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=obMOWfwr
- Site Reliability
Engineerhttp://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=o7k2Wfw9
- Tools Lab Operations Engineer
(Contractor)http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=o7y3Wfwo
Announcements
- Yuvaraj Pandian re-joined the Mobile engineering
teamhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Mobile_engineeringas
Software developer (
announcementhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-January/065636.html).
He joined the newly created Mobile App team with Brion Vibber and Shankar
Narayan.
- Munagala Ramanath (Ram) joined the MediaWiki core team of the Platform
engineeringhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Platform_Engineeringgroup
as Senior Software Engineer (
announcementhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-January/065698.html
).
- Runa Bhattacharjee joined the Language
Engineeringhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineeringteam
as Outreach and QA coordinator (
announcementhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-January/066030.html
).
Technical Operations
*Production Site
Switchoverhttp://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Eqiad_Migration_Planning
*
The Wikimedia Foundation switched over its primary data
centerhttp://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/19/wikimedia-sites-move-to-primary-data-center-in-ashburn-virginia/from
Tampa, Florida to Ashburn, Virginia on January 22. Given the scale
and
complexityhttp://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Eqiad_Migration_Planning/Stepsof
the migration, we scheduled three 8-hour windows to perform the
migration, but we were able to complete
ithttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-January/065892.htmlon
the first attempt. Because the switchover involved, among
