MediaWiki Interfaces Team

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Wikimedia Foundation projects MediaWiki Interfaces (MWI) Group: Technology • MediaWiki Engineering Group Start: 2024-01-15 Backlog: Phabricator Progress: Priorities ← API Platform Team

The MediaWiki Interfaces Team or MWI is the current iteration of what was previously known as API Platform . It was renamed in Jan 2024 to better align with the scope and direction of the team. We are part of the MediaWiki Engineering Group .

Mission

As the MediaWiki Interfaces Team, we empower others to build on top of MediaWiki by providing interfaces like Hooks and Web APIs.

Team

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  Engineering Manager: -/-
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  Product Manager: -/-
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  Technical lead: Bill Pirkle, Staff Software Engineer
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  Attached principal: Daniel Kinzler, Principal Software Engineer
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  Aaron Schulz, Senior Software Engineer
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  Atieno Njira, Senior Software Engineer
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  Frances Goodwin, Software Engineer
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  Wendy Quarshie, Junior

Projects

We are the stewards or collaborators of many projects. Including:

• Action API (Phabricator)
• MediaWiki RDBMS Library (Phabricator)
• MediaWiki Core Hooks (Phabricator)
• MediaWiki Merge History (Phabricator)
• MediaWiki Page Deletion (Phabricator)
• MediaWiki Revision Deletion (Phabricator)
• API Feature Usage (Phabricator)
• JobQueue (Phabricator)

Contact

• Phabricator issue tracker
• Internal Slack channel: #mediawiki-interfaces or #mediawiki-engineering-teams
• email: reach out directly to Bill Pirkle or Birgit Mueller.
• For issues and guidance: Create a Phabricator ticket and tag us with MW-Interfaces-Team.