[Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Happy Sysadmin Appreciation Day!

[Sumana Harihareswara]

On 07/26/2013 03:09 AM, Manuel Schneider wrote:
> my congratulations and all the best!
> 
> 
> /Manuel

I second this sentiment. :)  People who want to understand what the
Wikimedia Foundation operations staff does might like a blog post from
February.[0]  Ops is under "Technical Operations" in "Engineering and
Product Development" on the staff page[1] in case you want to recognize
them and buy them refreshing beverages at Wikimania. :)

I also specifically thank the volunteers who improve Wikimedia's
infrastructure.  For instance, if you look at the changes being
suggested to our system administration-related code,[2] you'll see lots
of names in there -- for instance, AzaToth, Alex Monk, Petr Bena, Sanja
pavlovic, Physikerwelt, liangent, Hazard-SJ, TTO (This, that and the
other), Tzafrir Cohen, Rillke, Jeremyb, Platonides, Nemo bis, Vogone,
odder, Lupo, and more -- plus engineers from Wikimedia Germany and
Wikimedia Foundation.  As of right now there are at least 250 changes
merged into the operations/puppet repository from people who don't work
at WMF.[3]  Volunteers have also been key in building, testing,
supporting, and documenting new parts of Wikimedia's infrastructure,
such as Tool Labs and the beta cluster.[4][5][6]

Thanks to all the people who have built and maintained infrastructure
for the Wikimedia movement over the past twelve-plus years, no matter
where you worked.


[0]
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/05/how-the-technical-operations-team-stops-problems-in-their-tracks/
[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff?showall=1
[2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:%255Eoperations.*,n,z
[3]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:operations/puppet+-owner:%22Ryan+Lane%22+-owner:%22Asher%22+-owner:%22Pyoungmeister%22+-owner:%22Mark+Bergsma%22+-owner:%22Faidon%22+-owner:%22Lcarr%22+-owner:%22Jgreen%22++-owner:%22Andrew+Bogott%22+-owner:%22Sara%22+-owner:%22Tim+Starling%22+-owner:%22ArielGlenn%22+-owner:%22Bhartshorne%22+-owner:%22Dzahn%22+-owner:%22RobH%22+-owner:%22Ottomata%22+-owner:%22MaxSem%22+-owner:%22Hashar%22+-owner:%22Manybubbles%22+-owner:%22Demon%22+-owner:%22Ori.livneh%22+-owner:%22Catrope%22+-owner:%22QChris%22+-owner:%22coren%22+-owner:%22Aklapper%22+-owner:%22Reedy%22+-owner:%22Spage%22+-owner:%22MarkTraceur%22+-owner:%22Dr0ptp4kt%22+-owner:%22Yuvipanda%22+-owner:%22Cmjohnson%22+-owner:%22Aaron+Schulz%22+-owner:%22Gwicke%22+-owner:%22Springle%22+-owner:%22Akosiaris%22+-owner:%22BBlack%22+-owner:%22Yurik%22+-owner:%22Jalexander%22+-owner:%22Krinkle%22+-owner:%22mwang%22+-owner:%22Diederik%22+-owner:%22Matthias+Mullie%22+-owner:%22Bsitu%22+-owner:%22Siebrand
%22+-owner:%22Mattflaschen%22+-owner:%22Mwalker%22+-owner:%22Awjrichards%22+-owner:%22lwelling%22+-owner:%22Brion+VIBBER%22+-owner:%22Nikerabbit%22+-owner:%22preilly%22+-owner:%22Milimetric%22+-owner:%22Jdlrobson%22+-owner:%22anomie%22+-owner:%22Rfaulk%22+-owner:%22Ram%22,p,0023be090000d2cf

[4] http://tools.wmflabs.org/
[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_cluster
[6] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges
-- 
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation