Wikimedia Engineering/2016-17 Q3 Goals

Purpose of this document: Goals for the Wikimedia Technology and Product Development department, for the second quarter of fiscal year 2016–17 (January 2017 – March 2017). 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.

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ETA fields may use the initialism EOQ (End of Quarter).

= Product = The Product department, alongside the community, builds, improves and maintains the user facing features on all the Wikimedia projects. The software, interfaces, apps, and other systems and applications the team supports are essential means by which contributors and readers connect with our sites. The work of the team’s three “audience” groupings – Discovery, Editing, and Reading – is interrelated and enables a channel for progressive engagement with the users of the Wikimedia projects.
 * Annual Plan for Product 2016-2017

Discovery
Our mission is to make the wealth of knowledge and content in the Wikimedia projects easily discoverable.

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

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

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

Also see the more detailed progress on these goals which are based on Program 4 of the Annual Plan

Fundraising Tech
Goal setting process owner: User:Khorn_(WMF) Considering fr-tech is still mid-english-fundraiser we reserve the right to edit these in the first week of January. Any number of cleanup tasks could come out of the campaign and serious impact any or all of thees goals.

Community Tech
Goal setting process owner: Danny Horn

Team focused on meeting the needs of active Wikimedia contributors for improved, expert-focused curation and moderation tools.

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Analytics
Goal setting process owner: Nuria Ruiz

Performance
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.

Release Engineering
Goal setting process owner: Greg Grossmeier

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.

Security
Goal setting process owner: Darian Patrick

Services
Goal setting process owner: Gabriel Wicke