Wikimedia Product

This page reflects the work done by the Wikimedia Product group. Wikimedia Product staff employed by the Wikimedia Foundation build, improve and maintain the features of Wikimedia sites.

Annual Roadmap

 * Annual Plan for Product 2016-2017
 * 2016 Product Summary
 * 2015 Product & Technology Review

Across Product

 * Technical Collaboration Guideline
 * Development Principles
 * Design Statement of Purpose
 * Monthly CREDIT Showcase: Members of our community, Reading, Editing, Discovery and Technology teams show off new work and experiments.
 * Data and research information for products and Monthly Research Showcases.
 * Program: Community Health Initiative
 * Program: Structured Data on Commons
 * Program: New Readers ongoing research that focuses on understanding potential Wikimedia readers in countries where access to the internet is quickly growing.
 * Program: Audience Research

Product Community Interaction Events

 * 2017 Dev Summit: San Francisco, United States
 * 2017 Wikimedia Conference: Berlin, Germany
 * 2017 Hackathon: Vienna, Austria
 * 2017 Wikimania: Montréal, Canada

Product Audiences & Teams
A Product Audience is a set of features developed according to specific user flows and audiences.

Discovery Audience
We build the anonymous path of discovery to a trusted and relevant source of knowledge.
 * Discovery Page: Discovery
 * Discovery Lead: Katie Horn
 * Phabricator task boards: Search (Sprint), Interactive, Portal, WDQS, Analysis (Sprint)
 * Discovery Projects: Maps, Search, Wikidata Query Service, Portal

Recent Highlights
En:Sparkline
 * Inter-wiki search is here! An A/B test of a new search results page which includes inter-wiki search results was deployed to Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias. Take a look and give us feedback!

Goals
Fiscal Year 2016-2017
 * Q1: July – September 2016 (WMF Q1 Review)
 * Q2: October – December 2016 (WMF Q2 Review slides)
 * Q3: January – March 2017 (WMF Q3 Review slides)
 * Q4: April – June 2017

Editing Audience
We build collaborative, inclusive tools for creating and editing free knowledge.
 * Editing page: Editing
 * Editing head: Trevor Parscal
 * Phabricator task boards: #Editing; #Collaboration-Team-Current, #ContentTranslation-Release8, Multimedia, #Parsoid, #VisualEditor
 * Editing teams: Collaboration, Multimedia, Languages, Parsing, VisualEditor
 * Editing code coverage: Collaboration, Languages, VisualEditor

Recent Highlights
Neil Quinn is supporting the New Editor Experiences research project for Editing; he is currently in Czechia preparing for the next round of research.

A new feature to provide filters on Recent Changes is available as a Beta Feature on all wikis, and further improvements are arriving soon.

The Linter tool, which helps editors find and highlight wikitext errors, is now available on all wikis except the largest (like MediaWiki.org – see the linting index page). We will release it to the remaining wikis soon, once performance concerns are addressed.

Improvements to Content Translation to replace its editor with the same platform as the visual editor are going well.

In the visual editor, you can now see visual diffs as you edit. We will improve and expand it in the weeks ahead.

Our work on deploying Compact Language Links out of beta (T66793) is nearing completion. It is available to everyone on all wikis except two Wikipedias, English and German. (T136677)

Our work to release the visual editor to all Wikipedias is now almost complete. There are now outstanding only the eight multi-script Wikipedias (including Chinese) which are technologically blocked, on which we're working with Parsing. There are also three other Wikipedias in incomplete deployment states (English, Spanish and Dutch), for which work is paused pending the new wikitext editor release, and won't resume until some point, probably in mid-to-late-2017.

Goals
Fiscal Year 2016-2017
 * Q1: July–September 2016 (WMF Q1 Review)
 * Q2: October–December 2016 (WMF Q2 Review)
 * Q3: January–March 2017 (WMF Q3 Review)
 * Q4: April–June 2017

Reading Audience
We build exceptional learning and reading experiences for the sum of all knowledge.
 * Reading Page: Reading
 * Reading Lead: Toby Negrin
 * Phabricator task board: #reading
 * Reading Projects: Community Tech, Mobile Apps, Desktop & Mobile Web, Reading Infrastructure
 * Reading code coverage

Goals
Fiscal Year 2016-2017
 * Q1: July – September 2016 (WMF Q1 Review)
 * Q2: October – December 2016 (WMF Q2 Review)
 * Q3: January – March 2017 (WMF Q3 Review)
 * Q4: April – June 2017

Fundraising Tech
Technical work supporting the Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising efforts.
 * Fundraising Tech Page: Fundraising tech
 * Fundraising Tech Lead: Katie Horn
 * Phabricator task board: #wmf-fr

Recent Highlights

 * We spent most of March working on several upgrades due to several systems hitting the end of life
 * We investigated getting silverpop data into civi and set up those tasks for Q4
 * We made a great deal of progress on Paypal but it was blocked due to a code freeze from the end of life issues above

Goals
Fiscal Year 2016-2017
 * Q1: July – September 2016
 * Q2: October – December 2016
 * Q3: January – March 2017
 * Q4: April – June 2017

Team Practices Group
The Team Practices Group (TPG) supports the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) teams in their continual improvement.
 * Page: Team Practices Group
 * Lead: Kristen Lans
 * Phabricator task board: #Team-Practices

Recent Highlights

 * A few new mentoring/coaching engagements: Seddon (project management coaching), Erica Litrenta (CL scope and expectations), Mel K (cross-functional Phab workflows)
 * Continued prep for structured data grant retro (scheduled for 2/13)
 * COLLAB JAM presentation to budget holders

Other:
 * Ongoing embedded work with 7 Product and Technology teams

Goals
Fiscal Year 2016-2017
 * Q1: July – September 2016
 * Q2: October – December 2016
 * Q3: January – March 2017
 * Q4: April – June 2017

Wikidata
Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. This project is maintained by the Software Development & Engineering department at Wikimedia Deutschland.
 * Page: Wikidata
 * Discussion List: wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org
 * Lead: Lydia Pintscher
 * Phabricator bugs & tasks board: #wikidata

Goals
WMDE Fiscal Year 2016 WMDE Fiscal Year 2017
 * Q1: January – March
 * Q2: April – June
 * Q3: July – September
 * Q4: October – December
 * Q1: January – March
 * Q2: April – June
 * Q3: July – September
 * Q4: October – December