Wikimedia engineering February 2012 report
Major news in February includes: The difficult deployment of our Swift infrastructure to serve image thumbnails Continued success for our Wikipedia Android app The deployment of MediaWiki 1.19 to all...
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Major news in March include: The completion of the move of all our domain names from registrar GoDaddy; The publication of a report on the first phase of Article Feedback version 5; Design improvements...
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Major news in April include: Substantial work on Wikimedia engineering’s goals for the next fiscal year; The selection of 9 Google Summer of Code students and the start of their work; The shift to a...
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Major news in May include: the publication of the Architecture of Open-Source Applications book, which contains a chapter on MediaWiki; initial designs for a universal language selector; a new and...
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Major news in June include: the Berlin hackathon, the largest gathering of Wikimedia technologists to-date, co-organized with Wikimedia Deutschland; the June milestone release of the Visual Editor and...
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Major news in July include: Engineering presence at Wikimania 2012 in Washington, D.C., and the pre-Wikimania hackathon; the launch of Limn, an open source dataviz toolkit developed by the Wikimedia...
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Major news in August include: A site outage caused by a fiber cut between our two data centers; Progress by the Internationalization team on the Universal language selector & Milkshake, and...
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Major news in September include: The introduction of translation memory by the Language engineering team; A breakage of our gerrit tool, and its subsequent recovery; A new version of the Wiki Loves...
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Major news in October include: a redesign of the mobile site emphasizing readability and navigation; the launch of a Wikipedia app for Windows RT and Windows 8 tablets; the test of a redesigned account...
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Wikimedia engineering November 2012 report
Major news in November include: the soft-launch of Wikivoyage.org; the launch of a new HTML5 video player, with support for WebM video, subtitles and multiple resolution derivatives; the first version...
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Major news in December include: The launch of an alpha, opt-in version of the VisualEditor to the English Wikipedia, a project more complex than it appears; A research study on the use of the Article...
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Major news in January include: the successful migration of our main services to our data center in Ashburn, Virginia; new features available in our mobile beta; progress on input methods and our...
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Wikimedia engineering February 2013 report
Engineering metrics in February: 110 unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki. The total number of unresolved commits went from about 650 to about 830. About 69 shell requests were...
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Wikimedia engineering March 2013 report
Engineering metrics in March: Approximately 113 unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki. The total number of unresolved commits went from about 830 to about 816. About 48 shell...
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Major news in April include: the start of recruitment for a multimedia engineering team; the deployment of a better translation interface; the release of Kiwix of Android, an app to download and view...
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Major news in May include: An invitation from the Language engineering team to collaborate on language-related projects; A new Notifications system enabled on the English Wikipedia; Recent developments...
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Major news in June include: The preparation for the activation of VisualEditor to most Wikipedia sites, and its debut on the English Wikipedia; News around Language engineering, including the...
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Wikimedia engineering July 2013 report
Major news in July include: Giving more editors an easy-to-use editing interface (the VisualEditor) on several Wikipedias Improving language support on our sites via summer interns’ projects and easier...
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Major news in August include: A discussion about using the secure HTTP protocol on Wikimedia sites, followed by a switch to that protocol for all registered users; The launch of the Notifications...
View ArticleWikimedia engineering report, September 2013
Major news in September include: A recap on how our engineers worked with volunteers to improve language tools at Wikimania; A call for wikis willing to experiment with using HTTPS for all users; A...
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