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-sto…
[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
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation