Wikimedia Technology/Goals/2017-18 Q3

= Introduction =

Purpose of this document
Goals for the Wikimedia Technology department, for the third quarter of fiscal year 2017–18 (January–March 2018). The goal owner in each section is the person responsible for coordinating completion of the section, in partnership with the team(s) and relevant stakeholders.

Goals for the Audiences department are available on their own page

Legend
Tech Goal categorizes work into one or more of these quadrants: ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) fields may use the acronym EOQ (End of Quarter).

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

= Technology departmental programs =

Program 1: Availability, performance, and maintenance
Overall goal owner: Mark Bergsma
 * Owner for Outcome 1: Mark Bergsma
 * Owner for Outcome 2: Ian Marlier
 * Owner for Outcome 3: Nuria Ruiz
 * Owner for Outcome 4: Bryan Davis
 * Owner for Outcomes 5 and 6: Greg Grossmeier

Program 2: MediaWiki
Goal owner: Tim Starling

Program 3: Addressing technical debt
Goal owner: Jean-Rene Branaa

Program 4: Technical community building
Overall goal owner: Bryan Davis
 * Owner for Outcome 1: Bryan Davis
 * Owner for Outcomes 2 and 4: Dario Taraborelli
 * Owner for Outcome 3: Cindy Cicalese
 * Owner for Outcome 5: Deborah Tankersley

Program 5. Scoring Platform (ORES)
Goal owner: Aaron Halfaker See phab tracking Epic:

Program 6. Streamlined service delivery
Goal owner: Mark Bergsma

Program 7. Smart tools for better data
Goal owner: Nuria Ruiz

Program 8. Multi-datacenter support
Overall goal owner: Tim Starling
 * Outcome 1 owner: Tim Starling
 * Outcome 1, Objective 3 owner: Mark Bergsma
 * Outcome 2, Objective 1 owner: Marko Obrovac

== Program 9. Growing Wikipedia across languages via recommendations == Goal owner: Leila Zia

Program 10. Public cloud services & support
Goal owner: Bryan Davis

Program 11. Improving citations across Wikimedia projects
Goal owner: Dario Taraborelli

Program 12: Grow contributor diversity
Goal owner: Leila Zia

Note: We have decided to not to commit to official goals for this program in Q3. I would like for us to spend some time on a recent proposal for the experiment that we developed with the collaborators, flesh it out with interested communities and plan for an experiment in Q4. However, we cannot commit to doing this given the workload for Program 9 and knowing that some of our resources will need to be spent on Annual Planning in Q3 (not captured anywhere here:). --LZia (WMF) (talk) 21:52, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

= Product departmental programs = ''Note: When the draft annual plan was written, the Search Platform and Fundraising Tech teams were in Product. They were moved into Technology during the "tune-up" in June 2017.''

== Program 1: Make knowledge more easily discoverable == Goal owner: Erika Bjune

== Program 7: Payment processor investigation and long-term strategy == Goal owner: Katie Horn

Program 8: Donor retention
Goal owner: Katie Horn

= Cross-departmental programs =

Segment 3: Research on harassment
Goal owner: Dario Taraborelli

Segment 2: Technology
Goal owner: Nuria Ruiz

Segment 1: Database Integration
Goal owner: Tim Starling

Segment 2: Search integration and exposure
Goal owner: Erika Bjune

Segment 4: Programs
Goal owner: Jonathan Morgan

= Security program =

Note: When the annual plan was written, the Security team's goals were not part of the annual plan, but they still needed to be addressed.

Goal owner: Erika Bjune