Today is the last Friday in July, so it's Sysadmin Appreciation Day.
I thank all the people who have built and maintained Wikimedia's technical infrastructure since 2001 - volunteers, staff, and in between. :) I won't spam you too much with a repeat of my note from last year http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-July/070791.html . But I will repeat that Wikimedia Foundation's Ops staff 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. :) https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff?showall=1
The site is up. This is the ur-priority, the fact that everything else in Wikimedia-world depends on. Too often we only notice when the site is down. Today we notice that it's up, that it's nearly always up, and that it keeps getting better, and that this takes work and we should appreciate that.
If you want to be someone we appreciate next year, you can always learn. :) http://ops-school.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ is one place to start.
Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation