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 CREDIT Showcase
Members of Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery, Infrastructure and Technology teams show off new work and experiments.

Recent:

April 6, 2016 (YouTube)

Mar 2, 2016 (YouTube | )

January 19, 2016 (YouTube note: some echo)

December 14, 2015 (YouTube | )

November 16, 2015 (YouTube)

October 28, 2015 (YouTube)

Community Wishlist Survey
The Community Tech team invited all Wikimedia contributors to submit proposals in a Community Wishlist Survey. The survey ran from the 9th through the 22nd of November. Voting on proposals occurred from Nov 30–Dec 14. The current tasks accepted for 2016 are - Migrate dead links to Wayback Machine (T120433), Improved diff compare screen (T121469), Central Global Repository for Templates, Lua modules, and Gadgets (T121470), Cross-wiki watchlist (T5525), Numerical sorting (T8948), Allow categories in Commons in all languages (T120451), Pageview Stats tool (T120497), Global (cross-wiki) user talk page (T88416), Improve the “copy and paste detection” bot (T120435), Add a user watchlist (T2470). To see the full list go to the 2015 Community Wishlist Survey/Results page.

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 burn-up charts for documenting team progress.
 * Design and Development Principles
 * The current roadmaps and development are provided comprehensively with the technology teams.  Individual audiences are also provided below.

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

Updates

 * See Discovery/Status updates for the archive of past Discovery updates

Goals

 * Q1: July - September 2015 (WMF Q1 Review)
 * Q2: October - December 2015 (WMF Q2 Review)
 * Q3: January - March 2016 (WMF Q3 Review)
 * Q4: April - June 2016

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

Goals

 * Q1: July - September 2015 (WMF Q1 Review)
 * Q2: October - December 2015 (WMF Q2 Review)
 * Q3: January - March 2016 (WMF Q3 Review)
 * Q4: April - June 2016

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

Updates

 * Paypal re-integration has been analyzed, the work is in progress, and so far on schedule
 * Reversible de-duplication in our CRM has been enabled.
 * Dependent on "re-duplication" (above), we have started prorotyping workflows to dedupe exact contact matches in our donor database. This will allow us to cut far more accurate email lists (among other things).
 * Started analysis and preliminary work to replace ActiveMQ as our queuing mechanism for the donation pipeline
 * AstroPay-enabled campaign launched, successful campaigns in LATAM
 * NL campaign with IDEAL payment method

Goals

 * Q1: July - September 2015, (WMF Q1 Review)
 * Q2: October - December 2015 (WMF Q2 Review)
 * Q3: January - March 2016 (WMF Q3 Review)
 * Q4: April - June 2016

Reading
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

Updates

 * Q4: April - June 2016 goals posted
 * Team focused on hitting goals by end of quarter.
 * Apps teams and other folks off to hackathon


 * Android
 * Android App Production Update
 * Synchronize theme and font options across devices for logged-in users.[*]
 * Restore and improve pinch-to-zoom functionality in image gallery.
 * Update the Settings screen with Material design.
 * Further improve memory usage and fix memory leaks on certain devices.
 * Improve network data usage when retrieving certain thumbnails.
 * Show link preview thumbnails even when only one or two are available.
 * Miscellaneous bug and crash fixes.
 * Android: Starting rollout of Mobile Content Service to Android production app ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126934 )
 * iOS
 * Updates to 5.0, including emergency fix for Apple deep-linking issue
 * Web
 * Working through community issues with non-free image display

Goals

 * Q1: July - September 2015 (WMF Q1 Review)
 * Q2: October - December 2015 (WMF Q2 Review)
 * Q3: January - March 2016 (WMF Q3 Review)
 * Q4: April - June 2016