Wikimedia Engineering/2015-16 Q4 Goals

Purpose of this document: Goals for the Wikimedia Engineering and Product Development department, for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015–16 (1 April 2016 – 31 June 2016). 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).

= Engineering =

Discovery
We build the anonymous path of discovery to a trusted and relevant source of knowledge.

Our focus will be on building on-top of our anonymous and trusted search stack to improve relevancy, expose additional content and leverage locally relevant knowledge.

The below goals are a collection of proposals for the team, and are subject to change. The goals which the team ends up picking may or may not be represented in the below list. They are listed here for transparency and public comment. Please note that the below proposals are not goals which have been committed to at this stage.

Goal setting process owner: Dan Garry

Wikidata Query Service
The priority, scope, and amount of work that is done on Wikidata Query Service in Q4 is dependent on analysis of the usage of the service, feedback provided by the users of the service, in Q2 and Q3.

Maps & Geo
The priority, scope, and amount of work that is done on the Maps Tile Service in Q4 is dependent on analysis of the usage of the service, and feedback provided by the users of the service, in Q2 and Q3.

Editing
Goal setting process owner: User:Trevor Parscal (WMF)

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

Fundraising Tech
Goal setting process owner: User:AGomez_(WMF), User:Khorn_(WMF)

Analytics
Goal setting process owner: Nuria Ruiz

These goals are preliminary until the end of March 2016

Feedback can be sent to analytics@lists.wikimedia.org (public e-mail list)

Release Engineering
Goal setting process owner: Greg Grossmeier

Services
Goal setting process owner: Gabriel Wicke

See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118871 for early draft goals.

Reading
Please see Reading/Quarterly planning/Q4 for the community-open brainstorming that led to this set of goals.

= Technology =

Performance
Goal-setting process owner: Ori Livneh

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.

The following is a summary of the Performance Team Goals.

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.

Research & Data
Goal setting process owner: Dario Taraborelli

Design Research
Goal setting process owner: Abbey Ripstra

Security
Goal setting process owner: User:CSteipp (WMF)

We make life hard for the people who want to harm our sites or the people that use them.