Roadmap/2012/March

March 2012

Operations

• Data Centers
  • Test effectiveness of Flash Drive [Asher] [DONE]
  • prep Stat1 to replace Bayes [Ben/DZahn/EZachte]
    • initial setup [DONE]
  • Deploy Peering capability@eqiad [Leslie] [DONE]

• Swift
  • Add more SWIFT nodes for thumbnails [DONE]
  • Investigate stability issues with new thumbs servers - blocker for originals migration
    • Initial investigation done, DC improvements done, firmware upgrade ongoing
  • Prep for SWIFT to replace 'Originals' - Setup h/w and install SWIFT [Ben, RobH]
  • Setup SWIFT in Wikimedia Labs [Ben] [DONE]

• Data Dumps
  • See Dumps/Development 2012 for 2012 plans.

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Features

Editing tools

• Visual editor
  • contentEditable planning/architecture with Wikia team [DONE]

• Parsoid

Participation and editor engagement

• Article feedback
  • Initial research results and milestone report [DONE]
  • Additional features: hiding/oversight; dismiss in UI [DONE]
  • A/B testing of "Improve this Page" link placement [DONE]

• Feedback Dashboard
  • Feature Evaluation [Dario + Giovanni have begun work]

• Article Creation Workflow
  • Deployment on Labs for community feedback [DONE]
    • Invite community feedback and make changes [DONE]
    • Work with Steven/Maryana on user draft template [IN PROCESS]

• Page Triage
  • Deploy first sprint to labs: List View and other basic features [DONE]
  • Concurrency notification: priority TBD

• Echo
  • Initial conversations for possible Wikia/WMF collab [DONE]

Multimedia tools

• TimedMediaHandler
  • Complete labs setup on http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ [DONE]

Feature support

• Wikipedia Education Program
  • Complete testing in Wikimedia Labs and incorporate community feedback - http://education.wmflabs.org/ [Jeroen, QA via Chris]

• Fundraising
  • Deal with fraud issues [DONE]
  • Get recurring payments up

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Internationalization/Localization

• Internationalization and localization tools
  • Design discussions on Universal language selection UI (for desktop and mobile) [i18n team + UI/UX contractors] [DONE]
  • twn migration to git/gerrit [Niklas] [DONE]
  • Added keymaps for language support to Narayam [i18n team] [DONE]
  • Added Lohit font updates from upstream to WebFonts [i18n team] [DONE]

Mobile

Product

• Photo Upload Basic and Advanced [Phil] [DONE]
• Mobile App V1.2 backlog [Phil, Yuvi, Tomasz] [DONE]

Mobile design

• Contact us [Heather] [DONE]
• Footer [Heather] [DONE]
• Reference reveal [Heather] [DONE]

Mobile Web

• [Jon, Yuvi, Arthur, Max]
• New look & feel
  • Full screen search (without preview) [Jon]
    • Beta [DONE]
  • Footer [Jon]
    • Beta [DONE]
  • Reference reveal
    • Beta [DONE]
  • New collapsible sections [Jon]
    • Beta [DONE]
• De-WMF-ification of MobileFrontend [Arthur] 34145 34144 [DONE]
• Deploy latest Mobile Fronted changes [Arthur] [DONE]

Wikimedia Apps

• Merge PlayBook Wikipedia Pull Request App [Brion] [DONE]
• Wikipedia Android app
  • Release V1.1beta3 to testers [Yuvi & Jon] [DONE]
  • Release V1.1RC1 [Yuvi] [DONE]
  • Release V1.1 to market [Yuvi] [DONE]
• Wikipedia iOS app
  • Release V3.1beta2 to testers [Yuvi] [DONE]
  • Release V3.1RC1 [Yuvi] [DONE]
  • Release V3.1 to market [Yuvi] [DONE]
• Wiktionary app

Wikipedia Zero

• Push WP:Zero extension to production [Preilly+Ops] [DONE]

J2ME App

• Begin vendor selection [Tomasz] [DONE]

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Platform / Dev-Ops

MediaWiki Core

• Git/Conversion [Chad/Antoine/Sumana]
  • Finish up specific Git management scripts / changes (staging on Fenari (bug 34138), i18n (bug 34137)) [DONE]
  • Make Gerrit behave like we want it to (hooks, permissions, gitweb redirects) [ongoing]
  • SVN import, post-release/deployment make read-only switch [DONE]

• SwiftMedia
  • Continue deployment/bugfixing work on thumbnails [Aaron] [ongoing]

Analytics

• Report card
  • Prototype first release -- Focus on new UI layer [partial]
    • Aiming on first release in April http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2012-March/000003.html

• Log collection pipeline
  • IP range filtering, geocoding at country, city and region level [DONE]

TL;DR

• Wikimedia blog maintenance
  • Rewrite the layout so it can be centered [Guillaume] [In progress]
  • Deploy recent Wikimedia-specific theme and plugin updates (RT# created) [Ops] [DONE]

• GSoC developer relations management (ongoing)

QA

• Improvements to beta (deployment prep) setup in Wikimedia Labs to support testing (ongoing)
• Planning for community testing User talk:Cmcmahon#Community Testing for WMF (work going into April)