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.

Monthly Product Showcase
Members of Discovery and Reading show off new work and experiments.

Next: December 14, 2015 11:30 - 12:30 pm PST

Recent: November 16, 2015 (Watch the showcase)

Recent: October 28, 2015 (Watch the showcase)

Community Wishlist Survey
The Community Tech team is inviting all Wikimedia contributors to submit proposals in a Community Wishlist Survey. The survey is running from the 9th through the 22nd. The team has put together a great effort and participation has been excellent so far, go check it out. Read more about it in the Wikipedia Signpost.

Product Development
There are a few current efforts underway to help solve some long standing challenges around product.
 * A high level product development process is open in draft for discussion.
 * Team Practices Group is leading a more detailed effort to restructure how the WMF plans and executes software engineering, known as the SPDPP (Software Product Development Process Proposal). Engineering, Product departments and the Team Practices group, will contribute to this draft as it evolves. Team Practices Group also leads ongoing projects to measure what fraction of team effort is dedicated to maintenance and to promote burnup charts for documenting team progress.
 * Community Engagement is working with the teams to develop a set of Design and Development Principles. First draft is up here.
 * The current roadmaps and development is provided comprehensively with the technology teams.  Individual audiences are also provided below.

Developers Summit
All teams will have their respective leads, product managers and engineers participating at the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016. Here are the latest tasks in motion. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-developer-summit-2016/. Specific tasks per audience include: Reading (T114542), Discovery (T113526, T113540) and Editing (Series of tasks).

Discovery
We build the anonymous path of discovery to a trusted and relevant source of knowledge.
 * Discovery Page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery
 * Discovery Lead: | Tomasz Finc
 * Phabricator task board: #discovery
 * Maps, Search, Wikidata Query Service

Updates

 * Portal is up
 * Next steps for language work is prioritized https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/discovery-cirrus-sprint/
 * Relevance lab is prioritized and scheduled https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/discovery-cirrus-sprint/
 * OSM Maps are now default on RU WikiVoyage

Goals

 * Q1 Goals - WMF Quarterly Review
 * Q2 Goals
 * Q3 Goals
 * Q4 Goals

Editing
We build collaborative, inclusive tools for creating and editing free knowledge.


 * Editing Page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing
 * Editing Lead: Trevor_Parscal
 * Phabricator task board: #editing
 * Collaboration, Multimedia, Languages, Parsing, VisualEditor

Updates
Updated on 2015-11-02
 * [STILL AT RISK] Provision of a single edit tab to combine the wikitext and visual editors; risk on community acceptance given complexity of change. This places at risk the quarterly goal of roll-out of the visual editor for logged-out users on the English Wikipedia.
 * [ON TRACK] Roll-out of the visual editor for logged-in users on the Spanish Wikipedia; first stage for new users at 10% happening this week.
 * [ON TRACK] LiquidThreads → Flow conversion on Portuguese Wikibooks happening this week; completes major work removing LQT from production.

Goals

 * Q1 Goals - WMF Quarterly Review
 * Q2 Goals
 * Q3 Goals
 * Q4 Goals

Fundraising Tech
Technical work supporting the Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising efforts.
 * Fundraising Tech Page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Fundraising_tech
 * Fundraising Tech Lead: Katie Horn
 * Phabricator task board: #wmf-fr

Updates

 * [IN PROGRESS] Support Banner History rollout. This new feature in CentralNotice was enabled for the ongoing France campaign. Analytics to work with our team to help digest the data we are getting back now.
 * [COMPLETE] Finished pre-December civicrm upgrade.

Goals

 * Q1 Goals - WMF Quarterly Review
 * Q2 Goals
 * Q3 Goals
 * Q4 Goals

Reading
We build exceptional learning and reading experiences for the sum of all knowledge.
 * Reading Page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading
 * Reading Lead: Toby Negrin
 * Phabricator task board: #reading
 * Community Tech, Mobile Apps, Desktop & Mobile Web, Reading Infrastructure

Updates

 * iOS alpha released -- wider beta release coming later in the quarter
 * Android app featured in Google play.
 * Infrastructure team updated spec on API reporting; initial reporting/investigation complete and specs discussed with Analytics and Partnerships.
 * Content Service for Android 1-2 weeks out from rollout for Android beta (waiting on Services)
 * First Quick Survey (User Segmentation for Research) going out this week.
 * Strategy Updates released on Mediawiki.org; Team answering community questions.
 * Summary of Finland Banner test shared with community.

Goals

 * Q1 Goals - WMF Quarterly Review
 * Q2 Goals
 * Q3 Goals
 * Q4 Goals