Major news in January include:

• Tech support for the black-out protesting SOPA & PIPA;
• The successful San Francisco hackathon;
• The release of the official Wikipedia Android app;
• A new beta cluster for Wikimedians to test upcoming software before it’s deployed to production.

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Major news in December include:

• The deployment of WebFonts to select Indic wikis;
• The first developer prototype of the Visual editor;
• A new version of Article Feedback being tested on the English Wikipedia;
• Progress on the Swift media storage project.

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Major news in November include:

• The completion of the Coding challenge, and two coding events in India and the UK;
• Continued infrastructure work in our data centers to improve performance and reliability, and on the Labs project;
• Progress on the Visual editor and its back-end;
• New versions of the Feedback Dashboard and the Upload Wizard, bringing new and long-awaited features;
• Fundraising engineering going full-swing, in parallel with the annual fundraising campaign;
• The final release of MediaWiki 1.18.0.

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Major news in October include:

• The New Orleans hackathon, which focused on Wikimedia’s infrastructure;
• Native HTTPS support on all Wikimedia sites;
• Progress on the Visual editor project, with the first prototype expected in the coming months;
• The deployment of the Translate extension to meta-wiki;
• The deployment of MediaWiki 1.18 to all Wikimedia sites;
• The completion of the first revision of the MediaWiki architecture document;
• The ramp-up by the fundraising engineering team, to prepare for the upcoming annual fundraiser.

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Major news in September include:

• The deployment of protocol-relative URLs, paving the way for native HTTPS;
• Major progress by our new Internationalization & localization team;
• The deployment of our new mobile front-end, now the default mobile experience;
• The start of the deployment of MediaWiki 1.18 to Wikimedia sites;
• The completion of the Google Summer of Code project;
• Ongoing preparation for the upcoming coding events in the USA, the UK, India and online;
• A revamped, and now maintained, roadmap for Wikimedia engineering efforts.

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Major news in August include:

• Technical discussions at Wikimania and Developer Days;
• Progress on HTTPS, and generally better processes in Operations;
• The kick-off of the Internationalization and localization tools project;
• New features in UploadWizard, including major work on customized campaigns for the Wiki Loves Monuments event;
• MediaWiki 1.18 and the new Mobile platform approaching deployment readiness;

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Major news in July include:

• Ongoing data replication from our primary Florida data center to our new Virginia data center;
• The deployment of the Article Feedback feature to all articles on the English Wikipedia, and the deployment of MoodBar;
• The successful implementation of a MySQL-based parser cache on Wikimedia wikis;
• Mid-term evaluation of our Summer of Code projects.

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Major news this month include:

• the network setup in our new datacenter, that opened the way to new server setup and backups;
• progress on features to encourage and facilitate participation, like the Visual editor groundwork, and the WikiLove button;
• productive community testing on our now mobile front-end and the Kiwix download manager;
• the release of MediaWiki 1.17.0;
• the first commits by our Summer of Code students;
• major progress on our code review backlog.

Note: This month, we’re trying out a slightly modified format for the report. Hover your mouse over the green question marks ([?]) to see a description of a particular project.
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Major news this month include:

• the Berlin Hackathon, where about 70 developers and engineers met to improve our technical infrastructure;
• the deployment of the Upload Wizard as default uploader on Wikimedia Commons;
• the continued development, deployment and roll-out of the Article feedback tool on the English Wikipedia;
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Major news this month include:

• the completion of the editor survey, which was supported by the engineering staff;
• major progress on Article Feedback 3.0 and Upload Wizard 1.0, which will both be deployed in May;
• mobile projects taking off, with field research in India and progress on the new mobile platform;
• work on the budgeting exercise for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.

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