Wikimedia Platform Engineering

The Wikimedia Foundation General Engineering team is responsible for the MediaWiki core, managing work from volunteer developers, as well as for providing services that are used by multiple technology teams.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities for General Engineering include:

• MediaWiki core:
  • Manage the MediaWiki release cycle
  • Ensure that MediaWiki core is meeting the evolving needs of the website
  • Make quality MediaWiki releases available for others outside of the Wikimedia Foundation
• Documentation:
  • Develop clear documentation for MediaWiki so that new staff, volunteer developers and external users have a smooth ramp-up process to becoming MediaWiki developers
  • Develop and document a clear set of APIs so that external developers can create applications that easily interface with MediaWiki
• Quality Assurance:
  • Ensure that all new code that is released meets quality standards
  • Triage, manage and resolve all bug reports
• Analytics:
  • Implement and manage Web analytics tool to provide data for other foundation departments and the movement as a whole
  • Monitor and analyze key metrics on Wikimedia Foundation websites
• Volunteer liaison:
  • Attract and support volunteer developers so that they can become an even more powerful force in driving improvement on the website
  • Manage volunteer-developed extensions and widgets