Wikimedia Technology/Goals/2019-20 Q3

Technology Department Team Goals and Status for Q3 FY19/20 in support of the  Medium Term Plan (MTP) Priorities and Annual Plan for FY19/20



Analytics
Team Manager: Nuria Ruiz
 * Core Work
 * Limit our users on stats machines
 * Spike SWAP (notebook)
 * Airflow (proof of concept for scheduler system)
 * ML model building, how to?
 * Enable Kerberos for e-very-body


 * Platform Evolution / Modern Event Platform
 * Development work for kafka connect
 * Begin replacing (some) event Camus jobs with Kafka Connect
 * Planning replacement of eventlogging server side (event gate) and client side
 * Development on Stream Config Service starts.
 * Replacement of eventlogging server side (event gate) and client side


 * Smart Tools for Better Data
 * Metrics for wikistats missing from Q4
 * Restructuring on event_longterm workflow
 * Mediacounts API, Phase 2
 * Development work for designer mocks of upcoming changes to wikistats UI.

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Core Platform
Team Manager: Corey Floyd
 * Core Work


 * (add your MTP priority work here)

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Fundraising Tech
Team Manager: Erika Bjune
 * Core Work


 * (add your MTP priority work here)

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Performance
Team Manager: Gilles Dubuc
 * Core Work


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Quality and Test Engineering
Team Manager: JR Branaa
 * Core Work


 * (add your MTP priority work here)

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Release Engineering
Team Manager: Tyler Cipriani
 * Core Work


 * (add your MTP priority work here)

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Machine Learning / Scoring Platform
Team Manager: Aaron Halfaker
 * Machine Learning Infrastructure
 * Jade expansion/Iteration
 * Session-model use, maintenance, and user-research


 * Content Integrity
 * JBuild/improve models in response to community demand (ongoing every quarter)

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Research
Team Manager: Leila Zia
 * Core Work


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Search Platform
Team Manager: Guillaume Lederrey
 * Core Work
 * 1.1 New query parser is used in production by the end of Q3
 * 2.2 WDQS storage expansion
 * 7.1. Increase understanding of our work outside our team, and outside the Foundation
 * 8.1. Improve search quality, especially for non-English wikis by prioritizing community requests - Positive feedback from speakers/community on changes made
 * 10.1 Newcomer task


 * Wikidata
 * Improve WDQS updater performance


 * Machine Learning Infrastructure
 * 3.1. Glent method 1 (comparison to other users' queries) offline tested, tuned, A/B tested and possibly deployed end of Q3


 * Address Knowledge Gaps
 * 6.1. Increase of training data retention (>90 days) is validated with Legal / Privacy
 * 6.2. Any new data retention requirements are implemented (validate with Legal)


 * Structured Data
 * 9.1. Proof of Concept SPARQL endpoint for SDoC is available on WMCS and updated weekly. (stretch)

Dependencies on: SDC, Legal

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Security
Team Manager: John Bennett
 * Core Work


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Site Reliability Engineering
Directors: Mark Bergsma and Faidon Liambotis
 * Cross-cutting

Service Operations
Team Manager: Mark Bergsma
 * Core Work

Data Persistence
Team Manager: Mark Bergsma
 * Core Work

Traffic
Team Manager: Brandon Black
 * Core Work

Infrastructure Foundations
Team Manager: Faidon Liambotis
 * Core Work

Observability
Team Manager: Faidon Liambotis
 * Core Work

Data Center Operations
Team Manager: Willy Pao
 * Core Work

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Technical Engagement
Team Manager: Birgit Müller
 * Core Work


 * (add your MTP priority work here)

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