Wikimedia Product

This page reflects the work done by the Wikimedia Product group. Wikimedia Product staff employed by the Wikimedia Foundation build, improve and maintain the features of Wikimedia sites.

Annual Roadmap

 * Annual Plan for Product 2016-2017
 * 2016 Product Summary
 * 2015 Product & Technology Review

Across Product

 * Technical Collaboration Guideline
 * Development Principles
 * Design Statement of Purpose
 * Monthly CREDIT Showcase: Members of our community, Reading, Editing, Discovery and Technology teams show off new work and experiments.
 * Data and research information for products and Monthly Research Showcases.
 * Program: Community Health Initiative
 * Program: Structured Data on Commons
 * Program: New Readers ongoing research that focuses on understanding potential Wikimedia readers in countries where access to the internet is quickly growing.
 * Program: Audience Research

Product Community Interaction Events

 * 2017 Dev Summit - San Francisco, United States
 * 2017 Wikimedia Conference - Berlin, Germany
 * 2017 Hackathon - Vienna, Austria
 * 2017 Wikimania - Montréal, Canada

Product Audiences & Teams
A Product Audience is a set of features developed according to specific user flows and audiences.

Discovery Audience
We build the anonymous path of discovery to a trusted and relevant source of knowledge.
 * Discovery Page: Discovery
 * Discovery Lead: Katie Horn
 * Phabricator task boards: Search (Sprint), Interactive, Portal, WDQS, Analysis (Sprint)
 * Discovery Projects: Maps, Search, Wikidata Query Service

Recent Highlights
En:Sparkline
 * Our wikis now implement the Open Graph standard, so sharing links on social media now include the appropriate imagery.
 * Thanks to Ladsgroup for this work! For those interested in how we test changes to search, there's now a page on Testing Search.
 * "Hiring a data scientist", a post on Wikimedia Blog that provides an in-depth look into Discovery's hiring process for the Analysis team.

Goals
Fiscal Year 2016-2017
 * Q1: July - September 2016 (WMF Q1 Review)
 * Q2: October - December 2016
 * Q3: January - March 2017
 * Q4: April - June 2017

Editing
We build collaborative, inclusive tools for creating and editing free knowledge.
 * Editing page: Editing
 * Editing head: Trevor Parscal
 * Phabricator task boards: #Editing; #Collaboration-Team-Current, #ContentTranslation-Release8, Multimedia, #Parsoid, #VisualEditor
 * Editing teams: Collaboration, Multimedia, Languages, Parsing, VisualEditor
 * Editing code coverage: Collaboration, Languages, VisualEditor

Recent Highlights
Neil Quinn will support the new Editing Audience Research project between Communications and Editing.

A new feature to provide filters on Recent Changes is now available in beta labs and testwiki for early testing/QA. Since it's not at all ready yet, it cannot yet be enabled by regular users at this stage. We hope to make it available as a beta feature in production some time in February.

Our work on deploying Compact Language Links out of beta (T66793) has restarted. Deployments have been done this week on French (T157108) and Dutch (T157112) Wikipedia. Swedish Wikipedia (T157114) is expected to be next; it is done for all Wikivoyages except Russian, and all Wikibookses, Wikiversities, Wikinewses, Wikiquotes, and Wiktionaries, and for all Wikipedias except English, Swedish, and German. (T136677)

Our work to release the visual editor to all Wikipedias is now almost complete. There are now outstanding only the eight multi-script Wikipedias (including Chinese) which are technologically blocked, on which we're working with Parsing. There are also three other Wikipedias in incomplete deployment states (English, Spanish and Dutch), for which work is paused pending the new wikitext editor release, and won't resume until some point, probably in mid-2017.

Goals
Fiscal Year 2016-2017
 * Q1: July–September 2016 (WMF Q1 Review)
 * Q2: October–December 2016
 * Q3: January–March 2017
 * Q4: April–June 2017

Reading Audience
We build exceptional learning and reading experiences for the sum of all knowledge.
 * Reading Page: Reading
 * Reading Lead: Toby Negrin
 * Phabricator task board: #reading
 * Reading Projects: Community Tech, Mobile Apps, Desktop & Mobile Web, Reading Infrastructure
 * Reading code coverage

Recent Highlights
Hiring has begun for the Community Health initiative which supports development of more advanced tools for volunteers and staff to reduce harassing behavior on Wikipedia and block harassers from the site. The Product Manager spot has been filled and there are three other positions open.Sr. Product Analyst, Back End Developer, and a Full Stack Developer.

The iOS team has released a new beta 5.4 to internal Beta channel and includes a refined UI, added animations, and added search suggestions. The Android team released 2.5.18x beta, which includes improved multi-window support. The mobile web team deployed related pages to mobile French wikipedia and to English wikipedia, which is about 90% of the users.

Goals
Fiscal Year 2016-2017
 * Q1: July - September 2016 (WMF Q1 Review)
 * Q2: October - December 2016
 * Q3: January - March 2017
 * Q4: April - June 2017

Fundraising Tech
Technical work supporting the Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising efforts.
 * Fundraising Tech Page: Fundraising tech
 * Fundraising Tech Lead: Katie Horn
 * Phabricator task board: #wmf-fr

Recent Highlights

 * No campaigns were held during January. this is usually a time to recover from the holidays. Also Major Gifts is still processing many donations.
 * We are working on an improved import for Major Gifts to help with specific donations sources
 * We have restarted the paypal reintegration.
 * We have a few miscellaneous bugs
 * We are also investigating some features for the annual plan.

Goals
Fiscal Year 2016-2017
 * Q1: July - September 2016
 * Q2: October - December 2016
 * Q3: January - March 2017
 * Q4: April - June 2017

Team Practices Group
The Team Practices Group (TPG) supports the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) teams in their continual improvement.
 * Page: Team Practices Group
 * Lead: Kristen Lans
 * Phabricator task board: #Team-Practices

Recent Highlights

 * A few new mentoring/coaching engagements: Seddon (project management coaching), Erica Litrenta (CL scope and expectations), Mel K (cross-functional Phab workflows)
 * Continued prep for structured data grant retro (scheduled for 2/13)
 * COLLAB JAM presentation to budget holders

Other:
 * Ongoing embedded work with 7 Product and Technology teams

Goals
Fiscal Year 2016-2017
 * Q1: July - September 2016
 * Q2: October - December 2016
 * Q3: January - March 2017
 * Q4: April - June 2017

Wikidata
Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. This project is maintained by the Software Development & Engineering department at Wikimedia Deutschland.
 * Page: Wikidata
 * Discussion List: wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org
 * Lead: Lydia Pintscher
 * Phabricator bugs & tasks board: #wikidata

Recent Highlights
WMF met with WMDE to review progress against goals as part of the partnership between the chapters and to review new roadmaps. We also discussed the chapters working together on Structured Data on Commons and Mediawiki development.

This week in the press there was a post Wikidata: the new hub for cultural heritage and the team will be present at FOSDEM, Brussels, February 4-5th. Some new highlights include coordinates on Russian Wikipedia now link to maps generated with the Kartographer extension. The map includes the location outline, if that object exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with a corresponding Wikidata ID (ways and relations only, not nodes). QuickStatements V2 can now run your commands in the background, no need to keep the browser tab open anymore. Example of Wikidata in the wild: List of churches generated from Wikidata on Cymraeg Wikipedia and a Wikidata Query Service highlight - Fire stations in Paris

Goals
Fiscal Year 2016 Fiscal Year 2017
 * Q1: January - March
 * Q2: April - June
 * Q3: July - September
 * Q4: October - December
 * Q1: January - March
 * Q2: April - June
 * Q3: July - September
 * Q4: October - December