Wikimedia Engineering/2016-17 Q4 Goals

Purpose of this document: Goals for the Wikimedia Technology and Product Development department, for the second quarter of fiscal year 2016–17 (April 2017 – June 2017). The goal setting process owner in each section is the person responsible for coordinating completion of the section, in partnership with the team and relevant stakeholders.

Status fields can use the following templates:, , ❌, ✅ or

ETA fields may use the initialism EOQ (End of Quarter).

= Product = The Product department, alongside the community, builds, improves and maintains the user facing features on all the Wikimedia projects. The software, interfaces, apps, and other systems and applications the team supports are essential means by which contributors and readers connect with our sites. The work of the team’s three “audience” groupings – Discovery, Editing, and Reading – is interrelated and enables a channel for progressive engagement with the users of the Wikimedia projects.
 * Annual Plan for Product 2016-2017

Discovery
Our mission is to make the wealth of knowledge and content in the Wikimedia projects easily discoverable.

Goal setting process owner: Dan Garry

Wikidata Query Service goal for this quarter will be working on integrating the Mediawiki API. The service will also continue to be maintained by Stas and Guillaume to support the continued growth and use of the service.

Wikipedia.org Portal team will not have any dedicated goals this quarter other than continuing to maintain the page by fixing critical bugs and performing regular statistics and translations updates. No other work on the page is planned in Q4.

Editing
Goal setting process owner: Trevor Parscal (WMF)

The Editing Department builds collaborative, inclusive tools for creating and editing free knowledge.

Also see the more detailed progress on these goals which are based on Program 4 of the Annual Plan

Fundraising Tech
Goal setting process owner: Katie Horn

Reading
Goal setting process owner: Jon Katz

Community Tech
Goal setting process owner: Danny Horn

Team focused on meeting the needs of active Wikimedia contributors for improved, expert-focused curation and moderation tools.

Team Practice Group
The Team Practices Group (TPG) supports the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) teams in their continual improvement.

Goal setting process owner: Kristen Lans

= Technology =

Analytics Engineering
Goal setting process owner: Nuria Ruiz

The Analytics Engineering makes Wikimedia related data available for querying and analysis to both WMF and the different Wiki communities and stakeholders. We develop infrastructure so all our users, both within the Foundation and within the different communities, can access data in a self-service fashion that is consistent with the values of the movement.

Performance
Speed is Wikipedia's killer feature. ("Wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian.) As the Wikimedia Foundation’s Performance team, we want to create value for readers and editors by making it possible to retrieve and render content at the speed of thought, from anywhere in the world, on the broadest range of devices and connection profiles.

Goal-setting process owner: Gilles Dubuc

Release Engineering
Goal setting process owner: Greg Grossmeier

Research
In Wikimedia Research we use qualitative and quantitative methods to provide strategic insights and technological solutions to the movement and the Foundation, to foster innovation and to inform the development of new products.

Goal setting process owner: Dario Taraborelli

Security
Goal setting process owner: Darian Partick

Services
Goal setting process owner: Gabriel Wicke

Technical Operations
Goal setting process owner: Mark Bergsma