Wikimedia engineering April 2013 report
Major news in April include:
- the start of recruitment for a multimedia engineering team;
- the deployment of a better translation interface;
- the release of Kiwix of Android, an app to download and view Wikimedia content offline;
- the milestone of 500 million monthly unique visitors reached in March;
- improvements to the main page of translatewiki.net;
- the migration of Wikidata, and the English and German Wikipedias, to MariaDB 5.5;
- the second phase of Wikidata, whose structured data can now be displayed in Wikipedia articles;
- the deployment of VisualEditor’s alpha version to 14 more language versions of Wikipedia;
- a proposed replacement for the login and account creation interface on Wikimedia projects;
- the launch of the Language Mavens program, an advocacy and advisory body in the domain of language engineering;
- the ramp-up of technical mentorship programs;
- the launch of an official Wikimedia Commons app for iOS and Android.
Note: We’re also providing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge.
