Wikimedia Technology/Annual Plans/FY2019/TEC10: Build Technical Community/Goals

=Program Goals and Status for FY18/19=

TEC10: Build Technical Community We will expand and strengthen our technical communities, focusing on understanding their needs and measuring the progress and outcome of our efforts. In particular, we will focus on three traditionally underserved communities: tool and bot developers; API and data consumers; and third-party users of our software.
 * Goal Owner: Bryan Davis
 * Program Goals for FY18/19: Wikimedia's software products and platforms have a diverse collection of technical communities including code contributors, documentation contributors, bug reporters, API consumers, volunteers who build innovative solutions to on-wiki workflow issues, researchers who examine the data generated by the Wikimedia projects, value-added vendors who provide services and support based on Wikimedia free and open-source software products, and true 'third parties' who install and use FLOSS software produced by the Wikimedia movement on their own computers for various reasons. These audiences contribute directly and indirectly to the broadest goal of the movement: to collect and disseminate knowledge. However, they have not always been well recognized for these contributions and supported in their work. The technical community support project will attempt to begin to address this shortcoming by providing better documentation, facilitating community building, and establishing better pathways for communication between these communities and the Foundation.
 * Annual Plan: TEC10: Build Technical Community
 * Primary Goal is Knowledge as a Service: Evolve our systems and structures
 * Tech Goal: Support our Technical Community



 = Q1 Goals =

Outcome 1 / Output 1.3
Technical Writing
 * Attract and foster a robust community of skilled and aspiring technical writing contributors

Primary team: DevAdv

Goal(s)

 * Research potential partnerships/joint programs with other FOSS-oriented communities and organizations

Status
July 2018
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August 10, 2018
 * Discussed the 'feedmereadmes' meetup event that was attended by a open source community members in the SF office ✅ ; follow-on events will hopefully be held every quarter (in the Bay area) in the WMF offices (will need funding); POSSE and Mozilla Open Source Student Network are also two groups that might be able to help out (outreach is ongoing to build new and long term partnerships) 

September 12, 2018
 *  Srishti and Sarah are working on a blog post about the Mozilla OSSN + POSSE partnerships

Outcome 3 / Output 3.1
Support use of Wikimedia services
 * Promote Wikimedia products at relevant conferences, hackathons, and within the Wikimedia communities

Primary team: WMCS, DevAdv

Goal(s)

 * Promote Cloud Services products at Wikimania Hackathon
 * Promote FOSS participation at Wikimedia Hackathon
 * Assist in New Developer mentoring program at Wikimedia Hackathon
 * Promote Technical Writing tasks at Wikimedia Hackathon

Status
July 2018
 * ✅

Outcome 8 / Output 8.1
Developer Advocacy
 * Update MediaWiki.org homepage and other key content pages

Primary team: DevAdv

Goal(s)

 * Update visual design and content of MediaWiki.org Main Page

Status
July 2018
 *  this is being worked on occasionally

August 10, 2018
 *  managerial encouragement is ongoing

September 12, 2018
 *  No visible progress, but Bryan s helping to instill the courage to put out a proposal to the wider community for feedback. However, we will NOT finish this (it'll be ) in Q1, but we have reasonable hope that we will make good progress in the next 2 weeks.

Outcome 8 / Output 8.4
Developer Advocacy
 * Collect or create content

Primary team: DevAdv

Goal(s)

 * Investigate and improve MediaWiki Action API documentation

Status
July 2018
 * 

August 10, 2018
 *  collaboration within the WMCS team is ongoing and analytics of page views and site usage is continuing (looking for key pages and how we can make them better and creating sample pages of what a 'good page' looks like for future usage).

September 12, 2018
 *  Template for a "good" API documentation page created at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page and other pages in the top 20 most viewed API pages have been updated. Work is  on an Outreachy project proposal to attract an intern interested in helping update additional pages to match the new

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Outcome 1 / Output 1.2
Technical Writing
 * Improve documentation for Toolforge & Cloud VPS based on gaps identified by the 'Tech writing (Re)working group' and via the Toolforge Annual Survey.

Primary team: DevAdv

Goal(s)

 * Plan and visibly improve Toolforge technical documentation

Outcome 3 / Output 3.1
Developer Advocacy"Promote Wikimedia products at relevant conferences, hackathons, and within the Wikimedia communities"Primary team: DevAdv

Goal(s)

 * Survey Wikimedia Foundation staff to gauge interest and support for reviving Tech Talks
 * Develop plan for Tech Talks reboot (pending survey results)

Outcome 8 / Output 8.1
Developer Advocacy


 * Update MediaWiki.org homepage and other key content pages

Primary team: DevAdv

Goal(s)

 * Update visual design and content of MediaWiki.org Main Page

Status
September 24, 2018"Goal carried over from FY18/19Q1"

Outcome 8 / Output 8.3
Developer Advocacy


 * Organize Wikimedia project participation and support mentors and other participants in Outreachy, Google Summer of Code, Google Code-in, and similar programs.

Primary team: DevAdv

Goal(s)

 * Support Outreachy Round 17
 * Support Google Code-In 2018

Outcome 8 / Output 8.4
Developer Advocacy


 * Collect or create learning-oriented (tutorial), goal-oriented (how-to), and understanding-oriented (overview) content describing the Wikimedia movement's technical spaces, technical services, and FOSS projects.

Primary team: DevAdv

Goal(s)

 * Outreachy internship - MediaWiki Action API: Documentation improvements to the top 50 most viewed API pages on-wiki
 * Review and improve top viewed overview pages of the Action API