Hi All, Some of you might have seen this <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/8845/> already on Phabricator :-) - I'm happy to share that we’ve created a Media Platform team under the umbrella of the MediaWiki Engineering group <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Engineering_Group>. This enhances the MediaWiki Engineering group from formerly 3 to now 4 teams – Core Platform, API Platform (also known as: MW Interfaces), Content Platform (also known as: the content transformers :), and Media Platform. [1]
With this change, we’re addressing the need to invest in the sustainability of our media platform, with an initial focus on de-risking key parts of the media infrastructure, ensuring the platform remains resilient when scaled scraping occurs and can scale for continued growth. The Media Platform team will work on how we store, manipulate, stream, and display media and is responsible for the media related work under the Responsible Reuse objective <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2026-2027/Product_%26_Technology_OKRs#Protect> in the Foundation’s annual plan (July 2026 - June 2027). The first major project is to come up with a new architecture for the thumbnail infrastructure (see ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T431141>). We’ve created a Phabricator project for the team <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/8845/> and updated the developers and maintainers list <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers> to reflect the changes. Feel free to come say Hi <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Media_Platform_Team> when you get the chance :-) Birgit [1] - We're adjusting the names of the other MediaWiki Engineering teams to maintain consistency across platform teams & are working on updating the corresponding tags and team pages. -- Birgit Müller (she/her) Director of Product, MediaWiki and Developer Experiences Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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