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The Wikimedia Foundation Product department staff and contractors build, improve, and maintain the software features of Wikimedia sites. It is one of the eight Wikimedia Foundation departments and collaborates closely with the Technology department.



Dokumen penting
On these pages you can read about our principles and best practices for our work:


 * Inclusive Product Development – documenting how we are guided by the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
 * Wikimedia Product Guidance – documenting how we work with the Wikimedia communities.

Structure of the department
Within the Product department, we have two types of teams:


 * Feature teams are the primary unit of work for building products. Some of them are put into groups to ensure closer work.
 * Functional teams include the people who provide services, such as management, analytics, or community relations, to the feature teams.

Functional teams

 * Community Relations Specialists – focus on collaboration and communication with communities about product development, user-facing changes, and roll-outs.
 * Design – focus on user experience design and research, information architecture, human-computer interaction, visual design, and usability experience.
 * Engineering Management – focus on technical practices and engineering mentorship.
 * Product Analytics – deliver the usage statistics to support informed decision-making.
 * Product Management – define what will be built and set the strategy for the problems the team focuses on.
 * Program Management and Technical Program Management – focus on team practices, facilitate team meetings and communication between the teams.

Leadership

 * Selena Deckelmann: Chief Product and Technology Officer
 * Desiree Abad: Director, Product Platform
 * Adam Baso: Director, Engineering
 * Runa Bhattacharjee: Director, Engineering
 * Amanda Bittaker: Senior Manager, Program Management
 * Sai Suman Cherukuwada: Director, Engineering
 * Erica Litrenta: Senior Manager, Community Relations
 * Marshall Miller: Director of Product, Core Experiences
 * Margeigh Novotny: Vice President, Product Design
 * Denny Vrandečić: Head of Special Projects
 * Kate Zimmerman: Director, Data Science