-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Eugene Zelenko wrote: For a long time, some site admin things like new project setups and configuration tweaks just weren't on the official agenda; every once in a while someone would go through a clear a few things out... but not necessarily all of it, and not necessarily on any kind of schedule. As we're expanding the core staff and are better able to organize things beyond just staying online, we'll get better at these "boring" but important sorts of things that need to be properly maintained to make the site not just running, but *awesome*. New wiki setups and config tweaks are now part of Rob's regular sysadmin maintenance assignments; we've gotten through a bunch in the last month, and should be able to keep the queue a lot shorter from now on with a regular schedule. Translations are propagated to all our sites along with all other software updates. Obviously we'd like to fix those up. ;) This is pretty much what I try to do (not always as successfully as I plan ;) on my blog: http://leuksman.com/log/ of which wiki-related posts are replicated on the Planet Wikimedia aggregator: http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/ Indeed, we should have some more solidly visible plans going forward, with a number of explicitly planned projects going on... We do have an outside contracting budget, which for this year has gone to taking on a number of our volunteer developers to hack away on some bigger ongoing projects. For instance, Erik Zachte's statistics work and Aaron Schulz's work on Flagged Revisions are being funded out of this; I'm sponsoring Andrew Garrett to tidy up some of the Configure and AbuseFilter work for making some on-wiki admin work flow a lot easier to deal with, and we'll be seeing some fun mobile development coming up soon... There's also a "volunteer development" budget for little bits here and there but this is a less fully developed idea so far. :) I definitely will be trying to organize some hackfest events, some of which we should be able to get some support funding for, and we'll see what other sorts of internship-style things we can arrange... We may or may not do Google Summer of Code itself next year, since we've had a lot of trouble getting enough motivated mentors to really support the student projects. We'll see how it's looking in a few months... :) - -- brion