Wikimedia Engineering/2016-17 Q3 Goals

Purpose of this document: Goals for the Wikimedia Technology and Product Development department, for the second quarter of fiscal year 2016–17 (January 2017 – March 2017). The goal setting process owner in each section is the person responsible for coordinating completion of the section, in partnership with the team and relevant stakeholders.

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ETA fields may use the initialism EOQ (End of Quarter).

= Product = The Product department, alongside the community, builds, improves and maintains the user facing features on all the Wikimedia projects. The software, interfaces, apps, and other systems and applications the team supports are essential means by which contributors and readers connect with our sites. The work of the team’s three “audience” groupings – Discovery, Editing, and Reading – is interrelated and enables a channel for progressive engagement with the users of the Wikimedia projects.
 * Annual Plan for Product 2016-2017

Discovery
Our mission is to make the wealth of knowledge and content in the Wikimedia projects easily discoverable.

Goal setting process owner: Dan Garry

Wikidata Query Service does not have any dedicated goals this quarter. The service will continue to be maintained by Stas and Guillaume, and Stas will work on user feature requests as time permits. Additionally, the dedicated hardware for the service will be upgraded to support the continued growth and use of the service.

The Analysis team (Mikhail and Chelsy) is in the final stage of adopting Analytics' ReportUpdater infrastructure. As part of that migration, they are starting to forecast usage of Discovery's services and products to detect when services and products might be significantly under- or over-utilized (relative to the usage our models predicted).

Wikipedia.org Portal team will not have any dedicated goals this quarter other than continuing to maintain the page by fixing critical bugs and performing regular statistics and translations updates. No other work on the page is planned in Q3.

Editing
Goal setting process owner: User:Trevor Parscal (WMF)

The Editing Department build collaborative, inclusive tools for creating and editing free knowledge.

Also see the more detailed progress on these goals which are based on Program 4 of the Annual Plan

Fundraising Tech
Goal setting process owner: User:Khorn_(WMF)

Community Tech
Goal setting process owner: Danny Horn

Team focused on meeting the needs of active Wikimedia contributors for improved, expert-focused curation and moderation tools.

Team Practices Group
''The Team Practices Group believes that healthy teams reliably deliver customer value and innovative products. Through dedicated resourcing, coaching, and workshops at the Wikimedia Foundation, we facilitate the use of practices that support team health, with a strong emphasis on creating conditions of clarity, trust, and continuous improvement.''

Goal setting process owner: Kristen Lans

Wikidata
Goal Setting and process owner is Lydia Pintscher.

Wikidata is Wikimedia's structured data project and knowledge base. Our goal is to support all the other Wikimedia projects with structured data and provide a top-notch knowledge base to everyone who needs structured data about the world.

Wikidata adapt their programms for WMDE’s new annual plan in 2017. These goals are:
 * Goal 1: Continue to assure the technical and social sustainability of Wikidata (software and community) as the central, structured knowledge data base for the Wikimedia movement and beyond. (Sustainability of Wikidata)
 * Goal 2: Continue to increase the reach of Wikidata into the Wikimedia projects. (Wikidata for Commons, Wiktionary, Wikipedia)

Here you can find all objectives for next quarter.

= Technology =

Analytics
Goal setting process owner: Nuria Ruiz

Performance
Speed is Wikipedia's killer feature. ("Wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian.) As the Wikimedia Foundation’s Performance team, we want to create value for readers and editors by making it possible to retrieve and render content at the speed of thought, from anywhere in the world, on the broadest range of devices and connection profiles.

The following is a summary of the Performance Team Goals.

Release Engineering
Goal setting process owner: Greg Grossmeier

Research
In Wikimedia Research we use qualitative and quantitative methods to provide strategic insights and technological solutions to the movement and the Foundation, to foster innovation and to inform the development of new products.

Security
Goal setting process owner: Darian Patrick

Services
Goal setting process owner: Gabriel Wicke