Wikimedia Product

Annual Roadmap

 * Annual Plan for Product 2017-2018
 * Annual Plan for Product 2016-2017
 * 2016 Product Summary
 * 2015 Product & Technology Review

Across Audiences

 * Technical Collaboration Guideline
 * Development Principles
 * Design Statement of Purpose
 * Data and research information for products
 * Monthly Research Showcases.

Programs

 * Community Health Initiative
 * Structured Data on Commons
 * New Readers — on-going research that focuses on understanding potential Wikimedia readers in countries where access to the Internet is quickly growing.
 * New Editor Experiences
 * Audience Research

Audiences-Community Interaction Events

 * 2017 Dev Summit: San Francisco, United States
 * 2017 Wikimedia Conference: Berlin, Germany
 * 2017 Hackathon: Vienna, Austria
 * 2017 Wikimania: Montréal, Canada

Audiences teams
An Audience team covers a set of features developed according to specific user flows and needs.

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


 * Page : Discovery
 * Product Lead : Deb Tankersley
 * Engineering Lead : Erika Bjune
 * Phabricator task boards : Search (Sprint), Interactive, Portal, WDQS, Analysis (Sprint)
 * Projects : Maps, Search, Wikidata Query Service, Portal

Recent Highlights

 * Inter-wiki search is here! An A/B test of a new search results page which includes inter-wiki search results was deployed to Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias. Take a look and give us feedback!

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
Among active editors, the overall pattern remains one of great stability among existing active editors and decline among new editors. This month’s new editor decline was particularly dramatic. The long-term downward trend is primarily driven by large Wikipedias (particularly English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Russia).

Growth of mobile edits remains strong, although it has slowed significantly from its 200% year-over-year pace in 2015 and early 2016.

New editor retention increased to its highest rate in the past 3 years. However, just 5 months ago it was close to its lowest level of the past 3 years, so it’s unclear whether this is a lasting shift.

Recent Highlights

 * Neil Patel Quinn is supporting the New Editor Experiences project for Contributors; he is currently helping lead the focus selection and idea generation stage.
 * 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 year-over-year drop in total traffic observed during the last three months became worse in November. Judging from the year-over-year chart, it’s quite likely that this is a one-time effect due to a bump around November 2016, but the trend’s future development will deserve attention.
 * As before, note that since late August, the new page previews feature has been live on all Wikipedias except two of the largest. Early evidence suggests that it causes a drop in desktop pageviews of a few percent when activated, more than compensated by the number of pages previewed.

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