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-stop... [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+... %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