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.

Monthly Credit Showcase
Members of Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery, Infrastructure and Technology teams show off new work and experiments.

Recent:

Mar 2, 2016 (YouTube)

January 19, 2016 (YouTube note: some echo)

December 14, 2015 (YouTube | WebM on Commons)

November 16, 2015 (YouTube)

October 28, 2015 (YouTube)

Community Wishlist Survey
The Community Tech team invited all Wikimedia contributors to submit proposals in a Community Wishlist Survey. The survey ran from the 9th through the 22nd of November. Voting on proposals occurred from Nov 30–Dec 14. The current tasks accepted for 2016 are - Migrate dead links to Wayback Machine (T120433), Improved diff compare screen (T121469), Central Global Repository for Templates, Lua modules, and Gadgets (T121470), Cross-wiki watchlist (T5525), Numerical sorting (T8948), Allow categories in Commons in all languages (T120451), Pageview Stats tool (T120497), Global (cross-wiki) user talk page (T88416), Improve the “copy and paste detection” bot (T120435), Add a user watchlist (T2470). To see the full list go to the 2015 Community Wishlist Survey/Results page.

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.
 * Team Practices Group is leading a more detailed effort to restructure how the WMF plans and executes software engineering, known as the SPDPP (Software Product Development Process Proposal). Engineering, Product departments and the Team Practices group, will contribute to this draft as it evolves. Team Practices Group also leads ongoing projects to measure what fraction of team effort is dedicated to maintenance and to promote burn-up charts for documenting team progress.
 * Design and Development Principles
 * The current roadmaps and development are provided comprehensively with the technology teams.  Individual audiences are also provided below.

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

Updates

 * Q4: April - June 2016 draft goals are available for review
 * We're still collecting feedback on the completion suggester beta feature. Please try it out and leave us your thoughts.
 * Portal A/B test was relaunched in January.


 * Portal team is planning and running more A/B tests. Also, we are exploring options to graduate successful tests on to production.
 * A popularity score based on page views has been loaded into the production elasticsearch cluster for use in improving search relevance. First tests will be run with the completion suggester which is currently a beta feature

Goals

 * Q1: July - September 2015 (WMF Q1 Review)
 * Q2: October - December 2015 (WMF Q2 Review)
 * Q3: January - March 2016
 * Q4: April - June 2016

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

Updates

 * Nice summary on Content Translation Tool Design by Pau Giner.
 * Monthly Language Team Report for February 2016
 * Q4: April - June 2016 draft goals are available for review

Goals

 * Q1: July - September 2015 (WMF Q1 Review)
 * Q2: October - December 2015 (WMF Q2 Review)
 * Q3: January - March 2016
 * Q4: April - June 2016

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

Updates

 * PCI internal scans and pen testing in progress
 * Increased support of other methods and countries available via Astropay is in progress.
 * Additional work is currently going in to an alternate credit card processor, mostly as a backup for our primary.
 * Two fundraising tech team members are on loan to the education team, for two sprints (started Feb 1).

Goals

 * Q1: July - September 2015, Quarterly Review
 * Q2: October - December 2015
 * Q3: January - March 2016
 * Q4: April - June 2016

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

Updates

 * Q4: April - June 2016 draft goals are available for review


 * Android
 * Android App Beta Update
 * Fix Wiktionary lookup and temporary outage.
 * Fix UI for nonexistent pages.
 * Various improvements to the networking layer and stability.
 * iOS
 * Final beta released; Production Release ETA submit at end of February, projected release March 8th
 * Most Read articles integrated into Explore feed
 * General bugfixes, fit and finish and testing continue
 * Web
 * Decision meeting on Gather next week
 * Team focused on performance improvements
 * Infrastructure
 * Working with TechOps and Release Engineering on SessionManager release
 * Removing SessionManager patches from current release for additional testing

Goals

 * Q1: July - September 2015 (WMF Q1 Review)
 * Q2: October - December 2015 (WMF Q2 Review)
 * Q3: January - March 2016
 * Q4: April - June 2016