Wikimedia Product

The Wikimedia Foundation Product staff and contractors build, improve, and maintain the software features of Wikimedia sites. Together with Technology, Product constitutes Product and Technology, one of the seven Wikimedia Foundation departments.

Important documents
On these pages you can read about our principles and best practices for our work:


 * Inclusive Product Development – documenting how we are guided by the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
 * Wikimedia Product Guidance – documenting how we work with the Wikimedia communities.

Structure of the department
Within the Product department, we have two types of teams:


 * Feature teams are the primary unit of work for building products. Some of them are put into groups to ensure closer work.
 * Functional teams include the people who provide services, such as management, analytics, or community relations, to the feature teams.

Feature teams
Team name ! Focus ! Point of contact ! Current project(s) -->
 * Content Transform
 * Content formats (such as wikitext and HTML) and transformations between them.
 * Sérgio Lopes
 * Code repositories
 * rowspan="2" | Search
 * rowspan="2" | Responsible for maintaining and enhancing the various Search features and APIs for MediaWiki.
 * rowspan="2" |Mike Pham
 * Wikidata query service
 * API:Search and discovery
 * rowspan="3" | API Platform
 * rowspan="3" | Facilitates self-service application development using Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
 * rowspan="3" |Virginia Poundstone
 * API Gateway
 * API Portal
 * Universal API Management
 * rowspan="3" | Data Platform
 * rowspan="3" | Serves data producers and data consumers.
 * rowspan="4" |Luke Bowmaker
 * Scheduled Dataset Creation
 * Data Gateway
 * Event Driven Dataset Creation
 * Expedition
 * Applying basic MVC conception to separate concerns and drive discussion of refactoring.
 * Expedition
 * Metrics Platform
 * A suite of services, standard libraries, and APIs for producing and consuming data of all kinds from Wikimedia Foundation products.
 * rowspan="4" |
 * Metrics Platform
 * rowspan="3" | Data Engineering
 * rowspan="3" | Build out and maintain the self service components that make up the Shared Data Platform.
 * Data Pipelines as a Service
 * Kubernetes Data Infrastructure
 * Data Catalog
 * }
 * Metrics Platform
 * A suite of services, standard libraries, and APIs for producing and consuming data of all kinds from Wikimedia Foundation products.
 * rowspan="4" |
 * Metrics Platform
 * rowspan="3" | Data Engineering
 * rowspan="3" | Build out and maintain the self service components that make up the Shared Data Platform.
 * Data Pipelines as a Service
 * Kubernetes Data Infrastructure
 * Data Catalog
 * }
 * Kubernetes Data Infrastructure
 * Data Catalog
 * }
 * }

Functional teams
Community Relations Specialists – focus on collaboration and communication with communities about product development, user-facing changes, and roll-outs. -->
 * Design – focus on user experience design and research, information architecture, human-computer interaction, visual design, and usability experience.
 * Engineering Management – focus on technical practices and engineering mentorship.
 * Product Management – define what will be built and set the strategy for the problems the team focuses on.
 * Product Analytics – deliver the usage statistics to support informed decision-making.
 * Program Management – focus on team practices, and communication between the teams.

Leadership
Director, Engineering -->
 * Selena Deckelmann: Chief Product and Technology Officer
 * Desiree Abad: Director, Product Platform
 * Amanda Bittaker: Director, Program Management
 * Kate Zimmerman: Senior Director, Research and Decision Science
 * Runa Bhattacharjee: Director of Product, Languages & Content Growth
 * Sai Suman Cherukuwada: Director, Engineering
 * Marshall Miller: Director of Product, Core Experiences
 * vacant: Vice President, Product Design
 * Denny Vrandečić: Head of Special Projects