Wikimedia Foundation
Jobs, news, and who works there
As of 2026-10-19, Skillenai has indexed 44 Wikimedia Foundation job postings over the past 90 days (up 73% vs the prior 4 weeks). Wikimedia Foundation appeared in 107 news articles in the same window.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-10-19
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Hiring at Wikimedia Foundation
Weekly Wikimedia Foundation job postings — last 90 days
Roles Wikimedia Foundation is hiring for
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 20 | 45.5% |
| Product Manager | 5 | 11.4% |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 5 | 11.4% |
| Data Scientist | 4 | 9.1% |
| Learning Experience Designer | 3 | 6.8% |
| Program Manager | 3 | 6.8% |
| UX Researcher | 2 | 4.5% |
| Software Engineer Intern | 1 | 2.3% |
| iOS Software Engineer | 1 | 2.3% |
Skills in Wikimedia Foundation job postings
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 14 | 31.8% |
| JavaScript | 14 | 31.8% |
| PHP | 13 | 29.5% |
| observability | 12 | 27.3% |
| MediaWiki | 8 | 18.2% |
| Code review | 7 | 15.9% |
| accessibility | 6 | 13.6% |
| A/B testing | 6 | 13.6% |
| SQL | 6 | 13.6% |
| metrics | 6 | 13.6% |
| Open source contributions | 5 | 11.4% |
| Swift | 5 | 11.4% |
| Linux | 5 | 11.4% |
| SLOs | 5 | 11.4% |
| WebView | 5 | 11.4% |
Who works at Wikimedia Foundation
From the career profiles Skillenai holds for current staff. Small groups are withheld.
Skills on staff profiles
- Keystone23%
- OpenStack23%
- Designate23%
- Glance23%
- Nova23%
- web UI development15%
- Horizon15%
- Wikipedia15%
- infrastructure15%
- Puppet15%
- OS installation15%
- learning to rank8%
- Phabricator8%
- OpenStack API8%
- Grid Engine8%
- yarn8%
Share of observed positions at Wikimedia Foundation that list the skill.
Schools
- Stanford University2
- Pratt Institute1
- University of Pennsylvania1
- The University of Texas at Austin1
- Boise Bible College1
- Chapman University1
- University of California San Diego1
- University of Oklahoma1
Wikimedia Foundation in the news
107 news articles and 79 blog posts mentioned Wikimedia Foundation in the last 90 days.
News
- Wikimedia found agents it believes OpenAI ran editing its wikis and probing its note-taking toolvibegraveyard.ai · October 15, 2026
- CERT-In Flags Unauthorised AI Agent Access To Indian Organisations’ Systemsinc42.com · October 16, 2026
- Wikimedia finds OpenAI agents running loose on its sitesnews.kav.co.id · October 11, 2026
- What Mistral Large 4 and Beam Change for Chinese Open Modelsdcthemedian.substack.com · October 9, 2026
- AI Digest — October 7, 2026aidigest.shelfcritter.com · October 7, 2026
- Big Tech Backlash Hits the Big Screendispatch.techoversight.org · October 14, 2026
Blogs
- 😸 OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT texttheneurondaily.com · October 6, 2026
- This Week in AI Operator Space: Oct 3-9, 2026echofiles.substack.com · October 9, 2026
- OpenAI’s Rogue Agents Ran up a Bill. Wikipedia’s Donors Pay Itnovaknown.com · October 6, 2026
- Tech Workers Have New Reasons to Organize as AI Changes Their Jobssmartechdaily.com · October 12, 2026
- AI News, Oct 6: Four Labs Under Oath, One Empty Chairusecarly.com · October 6, 2026
- OpenAI ships 722 proofs, Mistral opens state tier, Anthropic unblocks red teamsjacksunwei.me · October 7, 2026
How this was computed
Job counts are postings whose employer resolves to Wikimedia Foundation over the 90 days ending 2026-10-19; mentions are news and blog documents that resolve to the same entity. Career-profile aggregates come from the Skillenai talent graph with the same suppression the talent-graph API applies.
- note
- Observed profiles counts the career profiles Skillenai holds at this company, not its employee count.
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- Skillenai jobs, news and blog indices; Skillenai career-profile corpus
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