Technical Collaboration Guidance

The Technical Collaboration Guideline (TCG) allows Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) Product teams and Wikimedia communities to work together in a systematic way by establishing best practices for inviting community involvement in the product development and deployment cycle.

The Technical Collaboration Guideline is part of a Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan goal for the Technical Collaboration team to create a systemic approach to community engagement for product development teams. The emphasis in the Technical Collaboration Guideline is on communication - consistency and reliability in sharing and discussing information with interested community members. The TCG explicitly does not focus on the processes of creating software, as development plans are unique to each product, and Product teams determine goals and expected outcomes for their work. Instead, for now the TCG helps to identify the who, what, when, where, and how community members can be reached so that they can participate in the processes that are set up for each project or product.

The TCG is being developed over the course of the 2016/2017 fiscal year for the Wikimedia Foundation, and is being led by Keegan Peterzell. The basic recommendations are scheduled to be completed by the end of 2016.

Sections

 * Principles
 * /Private planning
 * /Milestone communication
 * /Translation