Wikimedia Product

Annual Roadmap

 * Annual Plan for Audiences 2018-2019
 * Annual Plan for Product 2017-2018
 * Annual Plan for Product 2016-2017
 * 2016 Product Summary
 * 2015 Product & Technology Review

Across Audiences

 * Product Principles
 * Technical Collaboration Guidance
 * Community Process Principles
 * Design Statement of Purpose
 * Data and research information for products
 * Monthly Research Showcases
 * New Content Program metrics reports.

Programs

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

Project Pages
Annual Plan goal: New Content


 * Advanced Mobile Contributions
 * Android Editing Features
 * Content Translation, V2
 * Growth
 * Improve Translate Extension and Translate Wiki process
 * iOS Editing
 * Visual based mobile editing

Annual Plan goal: Better Use of Data


 * Better use of Data
 * Data collection: Instrumentation

Annual Plan goal: Community Wishlist


 * Wishlist
 * Support for smaller user groups

Annual Plan goal: Anti-Harassment Tools


 * Reporting system

Annual Plan goal: Wikidata

Other:


 * Annual Pan goal: Platform Evolution CDP
 * Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture
 * TemplateStyles
 * Movement Organizers Study

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

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
The net new content metrics are modifications of total content metrics introduced in May which measure the net change in content between the end of the previous month and the end of the current month. Previously, we measured the total content, which obviously always grew. These metrics are quite volatile, with one factor likely being content creation by bots on projects like Wikidata and various Wikipedias. Despite the across-the-board negative trends this month, there does not seem to be any long-term downward trend.

Global revert rate is the proportion of non-bot edits which are later entirely reverted; partial reverts are not counted. Interpreting this metric proposes particular problems; for example, an increase could reflect better detection of damaging contribution, an increase in vandalism, or greater rejection of good-faith contributions. The trend over the past several years is downwards, from roughly 10% in 2015. Currently, we don’t know the reason.

Otherwise, the long-term trends remain consistent: downward for new active editors, and slightly upward for existing active editors and new editor retention. Audiences's product efforts are aligned with these trends.

Mobile-heavy wikis are a selection of 20 wikis with a very high proportion of mobile pageviews, which means they are likely serving traditionally-knowledge-deprived populations.

In these calculations, Global South readers and editors are those not geolocated to a Global North country (see list of countries by regional classification), meaning they include some whose location is unknown.

Notably, new editor retention in both these segments is lower than the global average (5.7%).

Recent Highlights

 * 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 change toward a positive year-over-year trend in pageviews continued this month: The May 2018 number surpassed May 2017 slightly (by 0.4% to be more exact).

In April, we completed the rollout of the page previews feature to the desktop version of all Wikipedias. Starting this month, we are including the number of pages previewed (on desktop, so far) alongside the number of pages viewed in this report. The sum of both numbers is reported as “page interactions” for now.

Community Tech
Technical work supporting the core community of the Wikimedia projects


 * Page : Community Tech & Community Tech
 * Lead : Ryan Kaldari
 * Phabricator board :

Technical Program Management
A support team in Audiences dedicated to guiding delivery processes and facilitating team health through good practices.

Page: Audiences Technical Program Management

Lead: Grace Gellerman

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