MediaWiki Interfaces Team

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Wikimedia Foundation projects MediaWiki Interfaces (MWI) Group: Technology • MediaWiki Engineering Group Start: 2024-01-15 Backlog: Phabricator Progress: Priorities ← API Platform Team

The MediaWiki Interfaces Team or MWI is the current iteration of what was previously known as API Platform . It was renamed in Jan 2024 to better align with the scope and direction of the team. We are part of the MediaWiki Engineering Group .

Mission

As the MediaWiki Interfaces Team, we empower others to build on top of MediaWiki by providing interfaces like Hooks and Web APIs.

Team

Engineering Manager: -/-	Product Manager: -/-	Technical lead: Bill Pirkle, Staff Software Engineer	Attached principal: Daniel Kinzler, Principal Software Engineer
Aaron Schulz, Senior Software Engineer	Atieno Njira, Senior Software Engineer	Frances Goodwin, Software Engineer	Wendy Quarshie, Junior

Projects

We are the stewards or collaborators of many projects. Including:

• Action API (Phabricator)
• MediaWiki RDBMS Library (Phabricator)
• MediaWiki Core Hooks (Phabricator)
• MediaWiki Merge History (Phabricator)
• MediaWiki Page Deletion (Phabricator)
• MediaWiki Revision Deletion (Phabricator)
• API Feature Usage (Phabricator)
• JobQueue (Phabricator)

Contact

• Phabricator issue tracker
• Internal Slack channel: #mediawiki-interfaces or #mediawiki-engineering-teams
• email: reach out directly to Bill Pirkle or Birgit Mueller.
• For issues and guidance: Create a Phabricator ticket and tag us with MW-Interfaces-Team.