Wikimedia Engineering/2016-17 Q2 Goals

Purpose of this document: Goals for the Wikimedia Technology and Product Development department, for the second quarter of fiscal year 2016–17 (October 2016 – December 2016). 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.

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

ETA fields may use the initialism EOQ (End of Quarter).

= Product =

Discovery
Our focus will be on building on-top of our anonymous and trusted search stack to improve relevancy, expose additional content and leverage locally relevant knowledge.

The below goals are a collection of proposals for the team, and are subject to change. The goals which the team ends up picking may or may not be represented in the below list. They are listed here for transparency and public comment. Please note that the below proposals are not goals which have been committed to at this stage.

Wikidata Query Service will not have any dedicated goals this quarter. The service will continue to be maintained by Stas and Guillaume, and Stas will work on user feature requests as time permits.

Wikipedia.org will not have any dedicated goals this quarter. Per Katie's email to the Discovery mailing list, Jan will continue to maintain the page by fixing critical bugs and performing regular statistics updates. No other work on the page is planned in Q2.

Editing
Goal setting process owner: User:Trevor Parscal (WMF)

The Editing Department build collaborative, inclusive tools for creating and editing free knowledge.

UI Standardization
Goal setting owner: User:VEckl_(WMF)

Fundraising Tech
Goal setting process owner: User:Khorn_(WMF)

Reading
= Technology =

Analytics
Goal setting process owner: Nuria Ruiz

Architecture
Goal-setting process owner:  Rob Lanphier

Performance
Goal-setting process owner: Ori Livneh

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.

The following is a summary of the Performance Team Goals.

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.

Research & Data
Goal setting process owner: Dario Taraborelli

Security
Goal setting process owner: Darian Patrick

Services
Goal setting process owner: Gabriel Wicke