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.

Programs

 * Audience Research
 * Better Use of Data
 * 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

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
Content growth across our projects continues, with Wikidata experiencing the highest growth rate. The content metrics will be changed from totals to per-month items added in the next update, for better insight into changes in the pace of growth.

New editors continues to decline, with existing active editors and new editor retention continuing to experience gradual improvements.

The 18% year-over-year growth in non-bot edits is primarily due to growth in non-bot data edits. In the next update, non-bot edits will exclude mobile, data, and upload edits so as not to provide overlapping insight.

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
The change toward a positive year-over-year trend in pageviews continued this month: The May 2018 number surpassed May 2017 slightly (by 0.4% to be more exact).

In April, we completed the rollout of the page previews feature to the desktop version of all Wikipedias. Starting this month, we are including the number of pages previewed (on desktop, so far) alongside the number of pages viewed in this report. The sum of both numbers is reported as “page interactions” for now.

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


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

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