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.

Product Audiences

 * Discovery - Maps, Search, Wikidata Query Service
 * Editing - Collaboration, Multimedia, Languages, Parsing, VisualEditor
 * Fundraising Tech
 * Reading - Community Tech, Mobile Apps, Desktop & Mobile Web, Reading Infrastructure
 * Team Practices Group

Annual Roadmap

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

Across Product
Draft goals for the Product teams is set for December 3rd. As always we post our draft goals a month prior to the upcoming quarter so community feedback and dependency planning occurs between respective teams.

Product Development
There are a few current efforts underway to help solve some long standing challenges around product.
 * A high level product development process is open in draft for discussion and includes work with the Technical Collaboration team on a Technical Collaboration Guideline.
 * Design and Development Principles
 * Product Development Personas (Draft)
 * Data and research information for features and the product audiences.
 * New Readers ongoing research that focuses on understanding potential Wikimedia readers in countries where access to the internet is quickly growing.

2016 Community Wishlist Survey
2016 Community Wishlist Survey has moved to the voting stage. Voting begins November 28th and goes through December 12th. 325 proposals were provided by 356 editors. Results will be posted on December 15th.

Monthly CREDIT Showcase
Members of our community, Reading, Editing, Discovery and Technology teams show off new work and experiments.
 * Most Recent Showcase: November 2, 2016 (YouTube)
 * Past showcases

Discovery
We build the anonymous path of discovery to a trusted and relevant source of knowledge.
 * Discovery Page: Discovery
 * Discovery Lead: Katie Horn
 * Phabricator task board: #discovery
 * Discovery Projects: Maps, Search, Wikidata Query Service

Recent Highlights
The search team has now enabled BM25 on the ten wikis that have the largest traffic. BM25 improves numerous relevance issues in search queries. You can also now search for file properties such as file size and and file type on Commons.
 * See Discovery/Status updates for the archive of past Discovery updates

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

Editing
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

{| class="wikitable" ! Metric !Two-year trend !Monthly (October 2016) !M/M ± !Y/Y ± Data explanations (for further documentation, see Editing/Metrics) out of inline HTML; discussions on the best way forward continue between us, Services, VisualEditor, Language and Collaboration.
 * +Editing primary metrics
 * Monthly active editors
 * 79 300
 * –1.4%
 * –2.1%
 * Monthly new active editors
 * 17 100
 * –10.4%
 * –4.8%
 * Monthly existing active editors
 * 58 200
 * +1.3%
 * –1.0%
 * Monthly non-bot edits
 * 14.5 M
 * –18.7%
 * –3.5%
 * Monthly mobile edits
 * 761 100
 * +5.3%
 * +9.7%
 * —as % of non-bot edits
 * 5.3%
 * colspan="5" width="40em" |Updated 14 November 2016
 * –3.5%
 * Monthly mobile edits
 * 761 100
 * +5.3%
 * +9.7%
 * —as % of non-bot edits
 * 5.3%
 * colspan="5" width="40em" |Updated 14 November 2016
 * —as % of non-bot edits
 * 5.3%
 * colspan="5" width="40em" |Updated 14 November 2016
 * colspan="5" width="40em" |Updated 14 November 2016
 * colspan="5" width="40em" |Updated 14 November 2016
 * colspan="5" width="40em" |Updated 14 November 2016
 * colspan="5" width="40em" |Updated 14 November 2016

The VisualEditor quarterly goal, "Maintain and incrementally improve current content creation and curation interfaces", is to provide a unified, consistent editing interface between mobile and desktop Web, and between visual and wikitext editors. The initial opt-in version of the new wikitext beta feature of the editor is undergoing final user testing before release. The expectation is to release in the next few weeks and communication will be sent to Tech/News and a separate Village Pump notice with a 6 month beta schedule that may decrease or increase based on feedback. Our work to release the visual editor to Wikipedias is now almost complete. There are now eight multi-script Wikipedias (including Chinese) which are technologically blocked, and 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 early 2017.

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

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 are fielding some issues as payment processors "freak out" before black friday. If any other processors have issues they take top priority over all else.
 * Queue work is pretty much done!
 * We are experiencing a lot of failmail. We are trying to calm it down before big english
 * Central Notice has multiple critical bugs. We are making progress. We may need to escalate our cross team bugs. We will alert manager as needed.
 * We are also focusing many small bugs and tool improvements for CIvi CRM and are in close coordination wit stakeholders.

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

Reading
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

Recent Highlights
iOS Version 5.3.0 is now available in the App Store! Version 5.3.0 includes a long list of improvements and new features, including Rich notifications about topics Trending In the News, improved VoiceOver support for the visually impaired and VoiceOver support added to widgets, support for auto transliteration between Simplified and Traditional Chinese for Chinese Wikipedia, a switch to RESTBase endpoint for the Explore feed, resulting in faster load times with less network bandwidth, improved Random article experience to make it easier to fall down the rabbit hole, 3d touch actions to save and share links from anywhere in the app, support for Top Read and Continue Reading widgets on iOS 9, more precise licensing information in image galleries and improved presentation of references and citations. We had a lot of help on this version, with major props to the Android and Services teams for their work creating the new Explore feed API. Huge thanks to the volunteers who contributed code or testing help (and especially the crew that came in person to our Accessibility hack day). Contributors in this version included: digdog, josve05a, anirudh24, kotarofujita, amire80, dmcglinchey2779 and eyeino

Mobile Content Service (MCS) added announcements feed endpoint

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

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

 * Continuing to work with Darian and Byron on the SIEM project, including consulting on project management strategies, helping set up Phabricator workflows, and helping w/evaluation process for security solution.
 * Working with New Readers: helping the team work on program management "log frame” - supporting development of log frame for group - helping with dependency planning
 * fr-tech is priority for December, watching for fires, impediments
 * Call for outcomes for Structured Data retrospective went out, potential participants identified
 * Annual Planning department collaborations and dependency planning - identifying structure and activities
 * Community feedback period on Design Statement of Purpose closed; Design representatives are working on final statement!
 * Clarified purpose of weekly Design meeting (moving towards critique focus)
 * Conducted final Editing offsite retro with core planning team from Editing/TPG - adding lessons learned to Offsite Planning Guide: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152057
 * Supported and facilitated the development of a "deployment checklist" for Discovery interactive team (responded to community CL, PM checklist fits user needs, talked to Legal, Design signoff) (Kevin)
 * Continue synthesizing Values conversations for next step of process

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

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

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

Recent Highlights
The Wikidata team are accepting comments related to: How to make new languages enabled on Wikidata. Problematizing and Addressing the Article as Concept Assumption in Wikipedia and schema.org, Wikidata, Knowledge Graph: strands of the modern semantic web publications were released with a relationship to Wikidata. The Community Wishlist includes a category for Wikidata.

Goals
Fiscal Year 2015 (Fiscal year for WMDE is a Calendar Year model) Fiscal Year 2016
 * Q1: January - March
 * Q2: April - June
 * Q3: July - September
 * Q4: October - December
 * Q1: January - March
 * Q2: April - June
 * Q3: July - September
 * Q4: October - December