Wikimedia Product/sr

Annual Roadmap

 * Annual Plan for Audiences 2018-2019
 * Annual Plan for Product 2017-2018
 * Annual Plan for Product 2016-2017
 * 2016 Product Summary
 * 2015 Product & Technology Review

Across Audiences

 * Product Principles
 * Technical Collaboration Guidance
 * Community Process Principles
 * Design Statement of Purpose
 * Data and research information for products
 * Monthly Research Showcases
 * New Content Program metrics reports.

Programs

 * Audience Research
 * Community Health Initiative
 * New Editor Experiences
 * New Readers — on-going research that focuses on understanding potential Wikimedia readers in countries where access to the Internet is quickly growing.
 * Structured Data on Commons

Project Pages
Annual Plan goal: New Content


 * Advanced Mobile Contributions
 * Android Editing Features
 * Content Translation, V2
 * Growth
 * Improve Translate Extension and Translate Wiki process
 * iOS Editing
 * Visual based mobile editing

Annual Plan goal: Better Use of Data


 * Better use of Data
 * Data collection: Instrumentation
 * Report stewardship

Annual Plan goal: Community Wishlist


 * Wishlist
 * Support for smaller user groups
 * Tech tools for program and event organizers

Annual Plan goal: Anti-Harassment Tools


 * Reporting system

Annual Plan goal: Wikidata

Other:


 * Annual Pan goal: Platform Evolution CDP
 * Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture
 * Parser unification
 * TemplateStyles
 * Movement Organizers Study

Audiences teams
An Audience team covers a set of features developed according to specific user flows and needs.

En:Sparkline

Contributors
We build collaborative, inclusive tools for creating and editing free knowledge.
 * Phabricator task boards: #Contributors-Team (rarely used)
 * Page: Contributors

Anti-Harassment Tools

 * Phabricator task board: #Anti-Harassment (AHT Sprint 35)
 * Page: Anti-Harassment Tools

Community Tech

 * Phabricator task board: #Community-Tech-Sprint
 * Page: Community Tech

Editing

 * Phabricator task boards: #VisualEditor (Current work) #Editing-team
 * Page: Editing team

Growth

 * Phabricator task board: #Collaboration-Team-Current
 * Page: Growth

Language

 * Phabricator task board: #ContentTranslation-Release8
 * Page: Wikimedia Language engineering

Analysis
Key trends


 * Total content continues to increase steadily, with Wikidata adding volatility to the rate of increase.
 * Total active editors remains has remained flat for years, due to two consistent trends: a decline in new active editors and a slow increase in existing active editors.
 * New editor retention has tended to increase in very spiky fashion in recent years, due in significant part to an increasing number of new students from education programs on the English Wikipedia.
 * The revert rate, which excludes bot edits, is declining, probably due to the increase of high-volume editing on Wikidata.
 * Total edit rate continues to grow, mainly because of the same high-volume Wikidata editing.

Notes

¹ Editor location data is deleted after 90 days, so it is not possible to calculate trends from before the metric was established. Trends started to accumulate in June 2018.

² Pageviews (all platforms) + seen previews (desktop).

³ The rollout of the page previews feature was completed less than a year ago.

⁴ Due to our current infrastructure and data retention policy, we currently have just a 5 day window in which we can calculate Global South new editor retention. Last month, we missed this window, so this month’s month-over-month change is not available. We are working on a better long-term solution.

⁵ We have not yet backfilled mobile-heavy new editor retention. Once we do, year-over-year values will be immediately available.

Readers
We build exceptional learning and reading experiences for the sum of all knowledge.


 * Page: Readers
 * Phabricator task board: #reading
 * Teams:

Reading Web

 * Reading code responsibility





Metrics analysis
We are still seeing a year-over-year increase in pageviews, although smaller than during the preceding four months. This slight slowdown is due to changes to both the rate of decline on desktop and rate of increase on mobile.

As before, keep in mind that the decrease in desktop pageviews is partly due to the deployment of the page previews feature over the course of the 2017/18 fiscal year. The upcoming Audiences metrics presentation will include some further analysis and observations.

Unique devices likewise increased year-over-year but less than in previous months.

Technical Program Management
We are dedicated to guiding delivery processes and facilitating team health through good practices.

Page: Audiences Technical Program Management

Lead: Grace Gellerman

Design
We make sharing of all human knowledge easy and joyful. For everyone.

Page: Design

Lead: Nirzar Pangarkar

Product Analytics
We make recommendations based on results of analyses, advocate for ethical data practices, and educate on topics around data and statistics.

Page: Product Analytics

Lead: Kate Zimmerman

Product Design Strategy
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Page: [link here]

Lead: Margeigh Novotny

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
 * Lead: Lydia Pintscher
 * Phabricator bugs & tasks board: #wikidata
 * Discussion List: wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org

Goals
WMDE Fiscal Year 2016 WMDE 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