Wikimedia Product/Wikimedia Product Infrastructure team
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The Wikimedia Product Infrastructure team is a subteam of the engineering group of Wikimedia Product.
Team
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Yiannis Giannelos -
Mission
[edit]Support Wikimedia Product's shared mission to build exceptional learning and reading experiences by enhancing MediaWiki's APIs and core features as well as promoting FLOSS development principles and practices.
Responsibilities
[edit]- Develop and document a clear set of APIs so that developers can create applications that easily interface with MediaWiki
- Expose existing business logic to consumers via APIs
- Collaborate with Wikimedia Technology teams and the larger MediaWiki developer community to ensure that new features added to MediaWiki have APIs that fulfill current community standards
- See also: software component responsibilities
Policies and procedures
[edit]- Software Engineer onboarding template
- API endpoint deprecation policy
- Service deployment process
- Maintenance
Projects
[edit]- Action API request analytics
- Machine vision middleware
- Mobile Content Service
- Page Content Service
- Product Analytics Infrastructure
- Push Notifications Infrastructure
- Proton: mw:Proton, wikitech:Proton
- Reading List Service
- Reading List browser extensions: for Chrome and Firefox (active); for Safari (obsolete)
- Related projects: RESTBase, Parsoid
Phabricator
[edit]Infrastructure Links
[edit]External to this team but good to know:
- MediaWiki at WMF has a diagram with a good overview of web request flow
- Infographics about our infrastructure