Editing team/Archive/Current priorities

Last updated: 2016-01-12.

Tranche 0: Interrupt
Maintaining the production service at a suitable quality level:
 * No loss/corruption of existing article data
 * No loss/corruption of the user's contribution
 * No security issues
 * No regression in performance
 * No regression in usability

Tranche 1: Release support
Support community-requested releases/deployments, and urgent key usability improvements as they arise
 * Goal: Provide a single edit tab interface, and switch all WMF wikis over to using it (without any other change in configuration) — T102398
 * Goal: Run an A/B test of providing the visual editor by default rather than the wikitext editor on clicking 'edit' for a small proportion of anonymous users on the English Wikipedia — T119269

Tranche 3: Language support
Expand VisualEditor's content language support
 * Goal: Ensure VisualEditor works adequately when using jQuery.IME — T51569
 * Goal: Ensure VisualEditor works adequately in Japanese script, and then enable by default on the Japanese Wikipedia — T109818
 * Goal: Ensure VisualEditor works adequately in Korean script, and then enable by default on the Korean Wikipedia — T110654
 * Goal: Ensure VisualEditor works adequately in Arabic script, and then enable by default on the Arabic script Wikipedias (Arabic, Persian, Urdu, …) — T120858
 * Goal: Ensure VisualEditor works adequately in Indic scripts, and then enable by default on the Indic script Wikipedias (Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, …) — T120859
 * Goal: Ensure VisualEditor works adequately in Han scripts, and then enable by default on the Han script Wikipedias (Cantonese, Classical Chinese, …) — T120862
 * Goal: Ensure VisualEditor works adequately in all remaining MediaWiki-supported scripts, and then enable by default on those Wikipedias (Aramaic, Thai, …) — T93387

Tranche 2: Mobile MVP
Improve VisualEditor for mobile tablets and phones to the point where it is credible to provide it by default
 * Goal: Support sub-documents inside the editor stack, and use this to support loading parts of the page asynchronously and only when needed — T76544
 * Goal: Load parts of the editor asynchronously and only when needed — T54365
 * Goal: Provide a way to edit parts of a page (paragraphs, tables, images) individually — T50429

Tranche 5: Rich media tools
Improve the editing of various 'rich' editing tools so that particularly-difficult tasks are simplified – specifically:
 * Images, including uploads (part of MediaWiki core),
 * Formulæ ("Math" extension),
 * Charts ("Graph" extension),
 * Galleries (part of MediaWiki core), and
 * Sheet music ("Score" extension).

Decision tree
Priority issues: Rating: Features:
 * Functionality regression
 * Performance regression
 * Data corruption
 * Security issue
 * Crash of entire editor
 * Crash of bits of editor (e.g. copy & paste stops working)
 * Very common -> Unbreak now! if a priority issue, Normal if not
 * Common -> High if a priority issue, Normal if not
 * Sometimes -> Normal if a priority issue, Low if not
 * Rare / very rare -> Low if a priority issue, Lowest if not
 * On list for this quarter -> High
 * On list for this year -> Normal
 * On list for next year -> Low
 * Not on list -> Lowest

Former tranches, now complete
Note: Former goals in active and former tranches are not listed for brevity.

Tranche 4: Link editor tweaks
Improve the link editing experience

Active for "FY2016Q2" (completed in October–December 2015).