User:Leszek Manicki (WMDE)/WMDE Engineering
Welcome to the Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Engineering portal. Here you can find information about our engineering work, projects, processes and mentoring program. Everyone is invited to join our projects. The software development & engineering team and many volunteer developers are responsible for the features and projects listed on this portal.
Welcome to the Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Engineering portal. Here you can find information about our engineering work, projects, processes and mentoring program. Everyone is invited to join our projects. The software development & engineering team and many volunteer developers are responsible for the features and projects listed on this portal.
Wikidata News
- News
- Development
- Wikidata Query Service has been upgraded to Blazegraph 2.0
- More groundwork for Commons support
- More performance work
- In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula
Wikidata Twitter Feed
Technical Wishlist News
In 2013 and 2015 we asked editors about their technical wishes in a survey. In November 2015, our development team reviewed the top 20 wishes of both years. Here is a short status of the wishes:
Examples Done:
- Possibility to watch categories
- A language and project extending watch list for all Wikimedia wikis.
Examples Doing:
- Automatic deletion of article on watch list after a chosen time (WMDE wishlist)
- Cross-wiki-notifications (international wishlist)
Examples To Do:
- A better solution for editing conflicts
Planning & Reporting
At the WMDE Software Development & Engineering Department we do quarterly planning to act flexible and stay agile in the development process. Here you can find our Roadmaps and Quarterly Report per Quarter for every Developer Team.
Read about our activities in 2015 in our current WMDE Impact Report.
Wikidata edit
For Wikidata you will find all relevant reporting information on the subpage, along with some recent reports here:
- 2016 Quarterly Report I
- 2016 Roadmap Quarter II
TCB
Git commits
Recent code created by our developers:Mailing Lists
Keep up to date with general or technical Wikidata improvements and sign up for one of the mailing lists.Events
March/April:
- Python Ladies Meetup, 12.03.2016, Berlin
- March 2016 NYC WikiWednesday, 16.03.2016 in NYC
- WikiArabia, 24.03. - 26.03.2016 in Jordan
- Tech meetup, 30.03.2016 in Ramallah
- MediaWiki Hackathon in Jerusalem 31. March to 03 of April 2016
- Missing Maps meetup, 10.04.2016
- Wikimedia Conference, 21.04. - 24.04.2016, Berlin
- Craft Con, 26.04. - 29.04.2016, Budapest
Source Code Berlin Podcast & Tech Talks
Source Code Berlin looks into creativity and innovation in fields related to open source technology in Berlin in form of bi-weekly podcast, events and tech videos.Recent Blog Entries