Talk:Wikimedia Engineering/2015-16 Q2 Goals

Search results
Search goals seem unrealistic. I suggest to first focus on something easy that proved to work and wikis have requested: like interwiki search and search results from Wikidata on failed searches and red links. --Nemo 07:06, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
 * "Consistency" is not a value in itself when it's not called for; easily done, but also easily going wrong.
 * "Improve relevancy by X%" is a meaningless goal when we have no definition of relevancy nor a way to measure it; hard to do, impossible to confirm.

No top-level goals
A limitation of the current goal-setting document is that there is no expression of high-level cross-cutting goals, nor is there any identified owner for overall coordination. To use an example from a previous all-hands meeting, suppose that our top-level goal is "better support mobile devices". That might involve coordinate work across multiple divisions, for example the Infrastructure/services team and Editing/parser team supporting lower-bandwidth content representation and lower-latency storage, the Fundraising tech team investigating banner strategies for mobile users, the Discovery team working on taking advantage of location-aware devices, and the Technology/research team investigating "bite-size mobile editing of facts". But right now there is no one setting top-level goals, and no mechanism in this document for teams to show how they are contributing to the broader strategic priorities of the organization. cscott (talk) 16:41, 21 September 2015 (UTC)