Hi Birgit, thanks for the news. is the Media Platform Team effectively a reconstitution of the former Multimedia Team? See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia.
Pine🌲 On Wed, Jul 8, 2026 at 12:30 AM Birgit Müller via Wikitech-l < [email protected]> wrote: > 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/> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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