Wikimedia Technology/Goals/2017-18 Q1

Purpose of this document
Goals for the Wikimedia Technology department, for the first quarter of fiscal year 2017–18 (July 2017 – September 2017). The goal setting process owner in each section is the person responsible for coordinating completion of the section, in partnership with the team and relevant stakeholders.

Legend
Annual Program/Outcome refers to items in the annual plan (draft).

Tech Goal categorizes work into one or more of these quadrants: ETA fields may use the initialism EOQ (End of Quarter).

Status fields can use the following templates:, , ❌, ✅ or

Analytics Engineering
Goal setting process owner: Nuria Ruiz

The Analytics Engineering makes Wikimedia related data available for querying and analysis to both WMF and the different Wiki communities and stakeholders. We develop infrastructure so all our users, both within the Foundation and within the different communities, can access data in a self-service fashion that is consistent with the values of the movement. For next quarter we will have less resources (about 2 people less for most of the quarter) thus our commitments are smaller. The second tier of priorities is marked as STRETCH, we will start working on those once goals are almost completed.

Cloud Services
Goal-setting process owner: Bryan Davis

Work is in progress on choosing which tasks to designate as goals on phabricator.

Fundraising Tech
Goal setting process owner: Katie Horn

Mediawiki Platform
Goal setting process owner: Tim Starling

Performance
Speed is Wikipedia's killer feature. ("Wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian.) As the Wikimedia Foundation’s Performance team, we want to create value for readers and editors by making it possible to retrieve and render content at the speed of thought, from anywhere in the world, on the broadest range of devices and connection profiles.

Goal-setting process owner: Gilles Dubuc

Release Engineering
Goal setting process owner: Greg Grossmeier

Research
In Wikimedia Research we use qualitative and quantitative methods to provide strategic insights and technological solutions to the movement and the Foundation, to foster innovation and to inform the development of new products.

Goal setting process owner: Dario Taraborelli

Note: This section can change significantly until the end of June when all goals for Q1 are finalized.

Scoring platform
Goal setting process owner: Aaron Halfaker See the epic task: T166045

Search platform
Goal setting process owner: Erika Bjune

Security
Goal setting process owner: Darian Patrick

Services
Goal setting process owner: Gabriel Wicke

Technical Operations
Goal setting process owner: Mark Bergsma