Readers

 

The Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering builds exceptional learning and reading experiences for the sum of all knowledge, from desktop and mobile web to apps and APIs. The team's work focuses 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.

Strategy
Outcome of the 2015 Reading Strategy: Reading/Strategy/2016-2017 plan

(detail about strategic process outlined below)

Apps

 * Native Mobile Apps

Web

 * Reading Web Engineering

Reading Infrastructure

 * MediaWiki web API
 * AuthManager
 * OAuth

New Readers

 * Mexico Readers Research

Multimedia

 * Structured Data

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:

Showcases

 * March 2016 and later: CREDIT showcase
 * January 19, 2016 (note: some echo)
 * December 14, 2015 (YouTube | commons:File:Discoverbb_edit.webm WebM on Commons)
 * November 16, 2016
 * October 28, 2015
 * August 24, 2015
 * July 27, 2015
 * June 29, 2015

Strategy and planning

 * Phabricator:
 * Reading Web cross-project view (search Reading Web Sprint in Phabricator for numbered sprints)
 * Android (search Mobile-App-Android-Sprint in Phabricator for numbered sprints
 * iOS (Kanban style board)
 * Infrastructure
 * Administrative
 * Reading Community Engagement
 * FY 2015-16 Q2 goals
 * Jul - Sep 2015 (Q1) early brainstorming scrapping document
 * Oct - Dec 2015 (Q2) early brainstorming document
 * Jan 2016 - Mar 2016 (Q3) Q3 Planning | FY 2015-16 Q3 goals
 * Apr 2016 - Jun 2016 (Q4) Q4 Planning | FY 2015-16 Q4 goals | YouTube Q4 FY 2015-2016 goals readout
 * Jul 2016 - Sept 2016 (Q1) Q1 Planning | FY2016-2017 Q1 goals
 * Oct 2016 - Dec 2016 (Q2) Q2 Planning | FY2016-2017 Q2 goals
 * Roadmap
 * Reading Strategy
 * Kickoff
 * Updated timeline
 * Strategy tests (discuss)
 * Strategy Phase One Retro

Quarterly reviews/checkins
Quarterly reviews (2015-2016), including: Quarterly check-ins (2016-)
 * Q1 2015-16 (October 6, 2015)
 * Q4 2014-15 (July 8, 2015) (retrospective)

Updates

 * Highlights from November 2015 to January 2016
 * Highlights from Sept-Oct 2015
 * Highlights from August 2015
 * Wikimedia Product - Monthly updates on core metrics and work done
 * Readership metrics reports

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

 * Reading/Q&A with Toby Negrin (August 2015)

Additional documents


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