Readers



The mission of the Reading Department of Wikimedia Engineering is build exceptional learning and reading experiences for the sum of all knowledge, from desktop and mobile web to apps and APIs. The team's work will focus on understanding user needs, how readers interact with Wikimedia content, and finding ways to improve and speed up experiences. We build beautiful, functional, and fast user interfaces for all locations, devices and languages.

Mobile Apps

 * Native Mobile Apps

Desktop & Mobile Web

 * Reading Web Engineering

Reading Infrastructure

 * MediaWiki web API
 * AuthManager
 * OAuth

Mailing lists

 * Mobile-specific: Mobile-l
 * General MediaWIki and Wikimedia development discussions: Wikitech-l
 * We highly depend on the MediaWiki web API, so these lists are interesting, too (for API-related things):
 * MediaWiki-API
 * MediaWiki-API-Announce (a bit less noise, only important announces)

IRC channels

 * General reading:
 * General MediaWiki development:

Reading showcase/staff meetings

 * June 29, 2015
 * July 27, 2015

Strategy and planning

 * Jul-Sep 2015 (Q1) early brainstorming scrapping document
 * Q2 Planning
 * Roadmap
 * Reading Strategy
 * Kickoff

Quarterly reviews

 * Q4 2014-15 (July 8, 2015) (retrospective)

Q&A with Toby Negrin, Senior Director of Reading team

 * Reading/Q&A with Toby Negrin