Wikimedia Technology/Programs/FY17–18

For the fiscal year FY 2017-18, the Wikimedia Technology department expects to work on a number of programs, as described in the draft annual plan. Here is a list of those programs, with the associated program owner/leader (within Technology).

Programs are categorized as:
 * Sustaining
 * Foundational
 * Community
 * Technical Community

Program 1: Availability, performance, and maintenance
Overall owner/leader: Mark Bergsma Teams: TechOps, WMCS, Performance, Analytics, Release Engineering, Services
 * Owner for Outcome 1: Mark Bergsma
 * Owner for Outcome 2: Gilles Dubuc
 * Owner for Outcome 3: Nuria Ruiz
 * Owner for Outcome 4: Bryan Davis
 * Owner for Outcomes 5 and 6: Greg Grossmeier

Category: Sustaining

Program 2: MediaWiki
Owner/leader: Tim Starling

Teams: MediaWiki, TechOps

Category: Foundational

Program 3: Addressing technical debt
Owner/leader: Jean-Rene Branaa

Team(s): Release Engineering

Category: Sustaining

Program 4: Technical community building
Overall owner/leader: Bryan Davis Teams: WMCS, Research and Data, Design Research, Scoring Platform (ORES), MediaWiki, Analytics, Services
 * Owner for Outcome 1: Bryan Davis
 * Owner for Outcomes 2 and 4: Dario Taraborelli
 * Owner for Outcome 3: Cindy Cicalese
 * Owner for Outcome 5: Kevin Smith

Category: Technical Community

Program 5. Scoring Platform (ORES)
Owner/leader: Aaron Halfaker

Team(s): Scoring Platform (ORES)

Category: Community

Program 6. Streamlined service delivery
Owner/leader: Mark Bergsma

Team(s): Technical Operations, Release Engineering, Services

Category: Foundational

Program 7. Smart tools for better data
Owner/leader: Nuria Ruiz

Team(s): Analytics, WMCS, Ops, Services

Category: Community

Program 8. Multi-datacenter support
Owner/leader: Gabriel Wicke

Team(s): TechOps, MediaWiki, Services, Performance

Category: Sustaining

=== Program 9. Growing Wikipedia across languages via recommendations === Owner/leader: Leila Zia

Team(s): Research, Editing, Reading, Services, Ops, Security

Category: Community

Program 10. Public cloud services & support
Owner/leader: Bryan Davis

Team(s): WMCS

Category: Technical Community

Program 11. Improving citations across Wikimedia projects
Owner/leader: Dario Taraborelli

Team(s): Research, Design Research

Category: Community

Program 12: Grow contributor diversity
Owner/leader: Leila Zia

Team(s): Research, Community Resources, Communications, Community Tech, Global Reach, Support & Safety

Category: Community

Product departmental programs
''Note: When the draft annual plan was written, the Search Platform and Fundraising Tech teams were in Product. They were moved into Technology during the "tune-up" in June 2017.''

Program 1: Make knowledge more easily discoverable
Owner/leader: Erika Bjune

Team(s): Audiences/Discovery, Search Platform, Community Liaisons, Wikimedia Deutschland

Category: Foundational

Program 7: Payment processor investigation and long-term strategy
Owner/leader: Katie Horn

Team(s): Advancement Management, Fundraising-tech

Category: Sustaining

Program 8: Donor retention
Owner/leader: Katie Horn

Team(s): Advancement Management, Fundraising-tech

Category: Sustaining

Segment 3: Research on harassment
Owner/leader: Dario Taraborelli

Teams: Research, Design Research

Category: Technical Community

Segment 2: Technology
Owner/leader: Nuria Ruiz

Teams: Ops, Security, Analytics, Services

Category: Foundational

Segment 1: Database Integration
Owner/leader: Tim Starling

Teams: MediaWiki Team, Design Research, Performance

Category: Foundational

Segment 2: Search integration and exposure
Owner/leader: Erika Bjune

Teams: Search Platform

Category: Foundational