MediaWiki Engineering Group

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 , Sergio Lopes , Shannon Bailey , Yiannis Giannelos MediaWiki Interfaces Team Aaron Schulz , Atieno Njira , Bill Pirkle , Frances Goodwin , Frantz Joseph , Wendy Quarshie MediaWiki Platform Team Ariel Glenn , Bartosz Dziewo?ski , Derick Alangi , Gerg? Tisza , Hannah Okwelum , Larissa Gaulia , Piotr Miazga
Management:	Mat Nadrofsky , Birgit Muller

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 Engineering is Mat Nadrofsky . Director of Product for MediaWiki is Birgit Muller .

MediaWiki Engineering consists of 3 teams:

MediaWiki Interfaces Team (Engineering Manager: Frantz Joseph)
Content Transform Team (Engineering Manager: Sergio 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 [ edit ]

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) [ edit ]

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) [ edit ]

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) [ edit ]

Mediawiki CodeJam

Q1 focus (July-September 2023) [ edit ]

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!).