MediaWiki Engineering Group

MediaWiki Engineering is a group within the Product and Technology department of the Wikimedia Foundation. The group commenced its work in July 2023. Director of Product for MediaWiki is Birgit Müller.

MediaWiki Engineering Group: Product and Technology Start: 2023-07-01 Team members:   Principal Engineers Timo Tijhof, Subramanya Sastry, Daniel Kinzler, Moriel Schottlender Content Transform Team Arlo Breault, C.Scott Ananian, Isabelle Hurbain-Palatin, Mateus Santos, Sérgio Lopes, Yiannis Giannelos MediaWiki Interfaces Team Aaron Schulz, Atieno Njira, Bill Pirkle, Frances Goodwin, Wendy Quarshie MediaWiki Platform Team Ariel Glenn, Bartosz Dziewoński, Derick Alangi, Gergő Tisza, Hannah Okwelum, Larissa Gaulia, Piotr Miazga Management: Birgit Müller ← Platform Engineering Team

MediaWiki Engineering consists of 3 teams:

• MediaWiki Interfaces Team (Engineering Manager: Frantz Joseph)
• Content Transform Team (Engineering Manager: Sérgio Lopes)
• MediaWiki Platform Team (Engineering Manager: Larissa Gaulia)

The group's principal engineers are Timo Tijhof, Subramanya Sastry, Moriel Schottlender and Daniel Kinzler.

Working With Us

• We specialize in working with MediaWiki and various parts of its core software. You can learn more about what parts our group of teams own via the Maintainers page.
• If you need our help with something, please follow our intake process here.

Q4 focus (April - June 2024)

• Operations
  • Participating in the Wikimedia Hackathon in Tallinn, Estonia (May 3-5)
• Active Projects
  • Continue long term initiatives (Parser unification, RESTBase deprecation)
  • Onboarding to MediaWiki Release process
  • Support specific projects and needs by other teams
• Strategy
  • Participation in the Annual Planning process for FY 24/25

Q3 focus (January-March 2024)

• Operations
  • MediaWiki Engineering Group Offsite @ San Francisco Office (March 18-21)
• Active Projects
  • Continue long term initiatives (Parser unification, RESTBase deprecation)
  • Update less.php to support Less 3.13 behaviours
  • Support specific projects and needs by other teams
• Strategy
  • MediaWiki Strategy 2 day workshop @ San Francisco Office (March 22/23)

Q2 focus (October-December 2023)

• Mediawiki CodeJam

Q1 focus (July-September 2023)

• Operations and Onboarding
  • Develop and define team operations and scope on group and team levels
  • MediaWiki + MediaWiki APIs onboarding (i.e. via code mob, knowledge sharing around specific components)
• Active projects
  • Continue long term initiatives (Parser unification, RESTBase deprecation)
  • Support specific projects and needs by other teams
• Strategy
  • Plan and kick off research to inform MediaWiki strategy
  • Plan initiatives to grow the number of people who contribute to MediaWiki repositories deployed in Wikimedia production (Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023/24)

If you want to learn more about the research initiatives to inform strategy, please visit this page: MediaWiki Product Insights (work in progress!).