Wikimedia Technology/Goals/2017-18 Q2

Purpose of this document
Goals for the Wikimedia Technology department, for the second quarter of fiscal year 2017–18 (October 2017 – December 2017). The goal owner in each section is the person responsible for coordinating completion of the section, in partnership with the team(s) and relevant stakeholders.

This quarter, the Technology department is orienting its goals to the annual plan programs it is working on, rather than to individual teams. The goal-setting process is described here.

Goals for the Audiences department are available on their own page

Legend
Tech Goal categorizes work into one or more of these quadrants: ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) fields may use the acronym EOQ (End of Quarter).

Status fields can use the following templates:, , ❌, ✅ or

Program 1: Availability, performance, and maintenance
Overall goal owner: Mark Bergsma
 * Owner for Outcome 1: Mark Bergsma
 * Owner for Outcome 2: Gilles Dubuc
 * Owner for Outcome 3: Nuria Ruiz
 * Owner for Outcome 4: Bryan Davis
 * Owner for Outcomes 5 and 6: Greg Grossmeier

Program 2: MediaWiki
Goal owner: Tim Starling

Program 3: Addressing technical debt
Goal owner: Jean-Rene Branaa

Program 4: Technical community building
Overall goal owner: Bryan Davis
 * Owner for Outcome 1: Bryan Davis
 * Owner for Outcomes 2 and 4: Dario Taraborelli
 * Owner for Outcome 3: Cindy Cicalese
 * Owner for Outcome 5: Deb Tankersley

Program 5. Scoring Platform (ORES)
Goal owner: Aaron Halfaker See phab tracking Epic:

Program 6. Streamlined service delivery
Goal owner: Mark Bergsma

Program 7. Smart tools for better data
Goal owner: Nuria Ruiz

Program 8. Multi-datacenter support
Overall goal owner: Tim Starling
 * Outcome 1 owner: Tim Starling
 * Outcome 2 owner: Marko Obrovac

=== Program 9. Growing Wikipedia across languages via recommendations === Goal owner: Leila Zia

Program 10. Public cloud services & support
Goal owner: Bryan Davis

Program 11. Improving citations across Wikimedia projects
Goal owner: Dario Taraborelli

Program 12: Grow contributor diversity
Goal owner: Leila Zia

Product departmental programs
''Note: When the draft annual plan was written, the Search Platform and Fundraising Tech teams were in Product. They were moved into Technology during the "tune-up" in June 2017.''

=== Program 1: Make knowledge more easily discoverable === Goal owner: Erika Bjune

=== Program 7: Payment processor investigation and long-term strategy === Goal owner: Katie Horn

Program 8: Donor retention
Goal owner: Katie Horn

Segment 3: Research on harassment
Goal owner: Dario Taraborelli

Segment 2: Technology

 * Owner for Outcome 2: Nuria Ruiz
 * Owner for Segment 3: Erika Bjune

Segment 1: Database Integration
Goal owner: Tim Starling

Segment 2: Search integration and exposure
Goal owner: Erika Bjune

Segment 4: Programs
Goal owner: Jonathan Morgan

"Missing" Program
In early 2017, when the Fundraising Tech team (fr-tech)was developing their FY2017-18 annual plan, they were discouraged from including any kind of program related to the actual raising of funds. Since then, as an organization, we have decided to try to capture more of our work in the form of quarterly goals within programs.

Fr-tech works closely with Advancement to raise the target budget each year. Their first priority is the maintenance of current systems and the support of live activities and campaigns for Advancement. At least 50% of the budget is raised in Q2 (Oct-Dec) each year. The following work is not expressly called out in the annual plan but is essential to the funding of this organization. The table is structured as if there were a program in the annual plan. Please note that virtually all activities in fr-tech are for fundraising purposes, and are budgeted as fundraising (and not as "programs") in the non-profit accounting format. Anything labeled as an fr-tech project or programs is budgeted as non-programmatic work.