Wikimedia Product

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.


 * Page : Contributors
 * Phabricator task boards : #Contributors-Team; #Collaboration-Team-Current, #ContentTranslation-Release8, #Parsoid, #VisualEditor
 * Teams : Editing, Collaboration, Language, Parsing plus Design and Product

Metrics analysis
The large year-over-year fluctuations in net new content are likely due to bot creations of content; if requested, a future iteration of this metric could remove creations by known bots to create a metric better reflecting manual content creation.

The long-term trends in active editors remain similar to the past: a slight increase in existing editors coupled with a consistent decline in new active editors.

The large year-over-year decline in new editor retention at mobile-heavy wikis does not seem to indicate a long-term trend—rather it seems that a dramatic spike occurred in July 2017 (among new editor who registered in May 2017). The retention rate that much was 6.1%, much higher than the 4–5% rates of normal months.

Recent Highlights

 * The filters on Recent Changes beta feature now lets you save sets of filters, with further improvements coming soon.
 * The Linter tool, which helps editors find and highlight wikitext errors, is now available on all wikis except the largest (like MediaWiki.org – see the linting index page). We will release it to the remaining wikis soon, once performance concerns are addressed.
 * Improvements to Content Translation to replace its editor with the same platform as the visual editor continue.
 * In the visual editor, you can now see visual diffs as you edit. We will improve and expand it in the weeks ahead.
 * Our work on deploying Compact Language Links out of beta (T66793) is nearing completion. It is available to everyone on all wikis except two Wikipedias, English and German. (T136677)
 * Our work to release the visual editor to all Wikipedias is now almost complete. There are now outstanding only the eight multi-script Wikipedias (including Chinese) which are technologically blocked, on which we're working with Parsing. There are also three other Wikipedias in incomplete deployment states (English, Spanish and Dutch), for which work is paused pending the new wikitext editor release, and won't resume until some point, probably in mid-to-late-2017.

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


 * Page : Readers
 * Lead : Toby Negrin
 * Phabricator task board : #reading
 * Teams : Mobile Apps, Desktop & Mobile Web, Reading Infrastructure
 * Reading code responsibility





Metrics analysis
Traffic usually drops from May to June every year (cf. year-over-year chart above), so these numbers are not a concern. On the contrary, year-over-year there is a notable rise in pageviews. (Small caveat: On May 21, we updated our user agent parsing definitions for the first time in two years, which affected bot detection - but it appears that this led to more views being classified as non-human, meaning that the real increase might be even larger than 3%.)

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.

Unique devices also increased year-over-year like in previous months, but this metric might be more susceptible to artifacts that decrease the accuracy of such longer-term trend assessments.

Community Tech
Technical work supporting the core community of the Wikimedia projects


 * Page : Community Tech & Community Tech
 * Lead : Ryan Kaldari
 * Phabricator board :

Technical Program Management
A support team in Audiences dedicated to guiding delivery processes and facilitating team health through good practices.

Page: Audiences Technical Program Management

Lead: Grace Gellerman

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