Wikimedia Engineering/2015-16 Q4 Goals

Purpose of this document: Goals for the Wikimedia Technology and Product Development department, for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015–16 (1 April 2016 – 31 June 2016). 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 =

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

Our focus will be on building on-top of our anonymous and trusted search stack to improve relevancy, expose additional content and leverage locally relevant knowledge.

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

Wikidata Query Service
Alongside the above goal, in Q4 the Wikidata Query Service will receive regular maintenance and user interface improvements in collaboration with Wikimedia Germany.

Maps & Geo
The priority, scope, and amount of work that is done on the Maps Tile Service in Q4 is dependent on analysis of the usage of the service, and feedback provided by the users of the service, in Q2 and Q3.

Analysis
The Discovery Department's Analysis Team leads the Discovery Department in experimental design, data collection, and data analysis. In light of reduced capacity due to the departure of one of our two analysts, this quarter the team will not have its own goals, instead allocating itself as required to achieve the goals for Discovery listed in the other subsections.

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

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

UI Standardization
Goal setting owner: User:VEckl_(WMF)

Fundraising Tech
Goal setting process owner: User:AGomez_(WMF), User:Khorn_(WMF)

Reading
Please see Reading/Quarterly planning/Q4 for the community-open brainstorming that led to this set of goals.

= Technology =

Analytics
Goal setting process owner: Nuria Ruiz

These goals are preliminary until the end of March 2016

Feedback can be sent to analytics@lists.wikimedia.org (public e-mail list)

Architecture
Goal-setting process owner:  Rob Lanphier

Performance
Goal-setting process owner: Ori Livneh

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.

Research & Data
Goal setting process owner: Dario Taraborelli

Security
Goal setting process owner: User:CSteipp (WMF)

More details at Wikimedia Security Team/Goals 201516

Services
Goal setting process owner: Gabriel Wicke