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Inside SRE: Miraheze upgraded to MediaWiki 1.39 on 21 January, 2023! The Community Wishlist Survey has concluded! We'll be posting results soon! Universal Omega was elected Technical Director. The community spoke and we listened—the results for the Community Wishlist Survey are in! Work is underway to complete all selected projects before the end of 2022.	What is SRE? Who do you think runs the show behind the scenes in the server room? Site Reliability Engineering (whose members are more commonly known as system administrators) does! We're a group of people who all work together to ensure Miraheze runs smoothly and that our users are satisfied. Just like everyone else, we're unpaid volunteers who love our users and always put them first! Learn more about our roles	Did you know? Numbers 6150 wikis £4,000 budget per year 10,000+ commits in our MediaWiki configuration repository 5 dedicated servers and 30+ virtual machines, all managed by Puppet 800+ GB of databases 6 backend technical infrastructure volunteers 1.5+ TBs of static content (e.g. data dumps, images, videos) 400,000+ unique visitors per day
Our services Under the hood, we use lots of software to keep Miraheze up and running. While some may be obvious like MediaWiki and Phabricator, other such as Swift may not be. Below is a list of all the software solutions we use. GDNSD Grafana Swift Graylog Icinga LDAP Mail Matomo MediaWiki Memcached NGINX Phabricator Proxmox Puppet Redis Salt Varnish	In depth with SRE SRE strives for transparency. Below are some of our policies and manuals that our members follow. Access Management Policy (process document) Inactivity Policy Incident Management and Response Maintenance policy Organisation Overview Personal Development Policy Procedures in Case of Compromise Security (GHSA)