Wikimedia Engineering/2013-14 Goals

Purpose of this document: Goals for the Wikimedia Engineering and Product Development department, fiscal year 2013-14 (July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014). Our top priorities for the year are: This document was first drafted in June-July 2013, and is being continuously updated. With the exception of milestones called out in the Annual Plan (flagged as such below), we may flexibly and continuously change quarterly objectives in response to successes and failures, as well as new opportunities.
 * Stabilization of VisualEditor and development of experimental opt-in real-time collaboration mode;
 * Continued focus on mobile contributions, expanding beyond mobile uploads;
 * Continued focus on recruiting, activating, retaining and reactivating editors through smaller interventions;
 * Development of Flow, an alternative to talk pages and markup-based workflows.

Site Operations and Site Architecture
Team members: Interdependencies:

Wikimedia Labs
Team members: Ryan Lane, Andrew Bogott, Marc-Andre Pelletier, (secondary) Sumana Harihareswara Interdependencies:

Language Engineering
Team members: Alolita Sharma, Amir Aharoni, Niklas Laxström, Santhosh Thottingal, Runa Bhattacharjee, Kartik Mistry, Pau Giner (UX), Siebrand Mazeland (Product) Interdependencies: Mobile, Visual Editor priorities 2013-2014 Roadmap:

MediaWiki Core
Team members: Greg Grossmeier, Chad Horohoe, Brad Jorsch, Antoine Musso, Aaron Schulz, Sam Reed, Tim Starling, Chris Steipp Interdependencies:

Release logistics and QA
MW Core team members: QA Team members: Interdependencies: MediaWiki Core, Site Operations and Site Architecture, and Wikimedia Labs
 * Greg Grossmeier
 * Sam Reed
 * Antoine Musso
 * Chad Horohoe
 * Chris McMahon
 * Željko Filipin
 * (secondary) Michelle Grover

Wikimedia Technical Community
Team members: Sumana Harihareswara, Quim Gil, Guillaume Paumier, Andre Klapper Interdependencies: Legal & Community Advocacy, Release logistics and QA, Wikimedia Labs, Analytics

Multimedia
Team members: Rob Lanphier, Fabrice Florin, Mark Homquist, Brian Wolff and other team members to be hired ... Interdependencies: MediaWiki Core, E2, Mobile, Design
 * Based on community feedback, we identified five main areas of activity 2013-2014: improving the viewing experience and contributions/upload pipeline in the first half of the year, then focusing on file curation, discovery and placement in articles for the second half of the year. Our overall goals for this year are to increase both the number of contributions and files used in Wikipedia articles. Read more on this multimedia planning page.

Editor Engagement - Core Features
Team members: Interdependencies:

Editor Engagement - Growth Team
Team members: Interdependencies:
 * Matt Flaschen
 * Ori Livneh
 * S Page
 * Dario Taraborelli
 * Steven Walling

Mobile
Team members:

Mobile web: Apps:
 * Arthur Richards
 * Jon Robson
 * Juliusz Gonera
 * Ryan Kaldari
 * Max Semenik
 * Monte Hurd
 * Brion Vibber
 * Yuvaraj Pandian

Interdependencies:

VisualEditor
Team members: Interdependencies:

Analytics
Team members: Interdependencies:

Fundraising Engineering
Team members: Interdependencies: