Wikimedia Engineering/2015-16 Q1 Goals

Purpose of this document: Goals for the Wikimedia Engineering and Product Development department, fiscal year 2015–16 (July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016). The goalsetting process owner in each section is the person responsible for coordinating completion of the section, in partnership with the team and relevant stakeholders.

These goals will be iterated on a quarterly basis. Each quarter, the top priorities for the department as a whole will be elucidated and highlighted.

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Team Foo
Goalsetting process owner: User:Bar

Editing
Goalsetting process owner: User:Trevor

The Editing Department build collaborative, inclusive tools for creating and editing free knowledge. In Q1, the Department will focus on rationalizing technologies and strengthening engineering practices whilst delivering on the key user workflows for editors across the product range.

VisualEditor Team
Involve more people than ever before in the collaborative effort of building free knowledge through improving the usability, stability and performance of VisualEditor, integrated with the developing reading experience.

Collaboration Team
Increase the participation, mentoring and awareness of activity on the site by bringing structured conversations to both talk pages and the editing experience by improving and deploying Flow where it can help most.

Multimedia Team
Enrich the content of our projects with more use of multimedia assets, by streamlining media contribution with UploadWizard, and evolving the rich editing experience to better suggest media.

Language Team
Growing and accelerating projects with smaller content bases by providing and promoting enhanced Content Translation tools for translating content from projects with larger content bases.

Parsing Team
Increasing the integrity, accessibility and stability of content by providing Parsoid as both a bridge for editing wikitext documents, but also a rendering system for viewing and querying them.

Security
Goalsetting process owner: User:CSteipp (WMF)

We make life hard for the people who want to harm our sites or the people that use them. During Q1, the Security Team will focus on making security measurable, in addition to maintaining the safety of our sites and users. The following is a summary of the Security Team Goals.

Core Ops team
Goalsetting process owner: User:Mark Bergsma (WMF)

Labs team
Goalsetting process owner: User:Mark Bergsma (WMF)