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Wikimedia Engineering staff employed by the Wikimedia Foundation build, improve and maintain the technical infrastructure of Wikimedia sites (software and hardware), by supporting and complementing volunteer efforts.

It's composed of the Engineering and Product and Technology groups.

ProductWikimedia Product:

• Community Tech
• Discovery
• Editing
• Fundraising Tech
• Reading

Technology:

• Analytics
• Architecture
• Performance
• Release Engineering
• Research
• Security
• Services
• Technical Operations

Latest news Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [1] First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [2] .gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [3] Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [4] Changes this week The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 7 November. The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar). Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection. [5] Meetings You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org. [6][7][8] Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

Stay informed Subscribe to Tech News Attend Events and meetings Read the teams' quarterly reviews Follow the Wikimedia Technology Blog (and its corresponding feed) Get involved How to contributeHow to contribute Tell us if you run into a problemPhabricator Become a MediaWiki developerHow to become a MediaWiki hacker Chat with usMediaWiki on IRC Job openings Are you looking to work for Wikimedia? We're hiring!