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 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)
 * The current roadmaps and development are provided comprehensively with the technology teams. Individual audiences are also provided below.
 * 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.

Community Wishlist Survey
The Community Tech team invited all Wikimedia contributors to submit proposals in a Community Wishlist Survey. The survey runs in the fall/winter of each year. The team works in collaboration with other teams to tackle the top ten on the list. We also focus our efforts at our annual hackathon to further development against this list. To see the full list and current progress go to the 2015 Community Wishlist Survey/Results page.

We've completed our work on 5 wishes:
 * Wish #1: Migrate dead external links to archives, with volunteer dev Cyberpower678 (currently on English Wikipedia, other languages coming)


 * Wish #2: Improved diff comparisons, by WMF developer MaxSem (WMF) (live on all wikis)


 * Wish #5: Numerical sorting in categories (currently on English, Swedish, and Macedonian Wikipedias, more languages coming)


 * Wish #7: Pageview stats tool (live for all wikis)

We're currently working on 1 wish: Other teams are currently working on 2 wishes:
 * Wish #9: Improve the plagiarism detection bot, with volunteer dev Eran (currently on English Wikipedia, other languages coming)
 * Wish #4: Cross-wiki watchlist
 * Wish #3: Central repository for gadgets, templates and Lua modules; foundational work is underway by Legoktm

We had to decline 2 wishes:
 * Wish #6: Allow categories in Commons in all languages; related work is underway by the Wikidata team
 * Wish #8: Global cross-wiki talk page

2016 Community Wishlist begins November 7th!
 * Wish #10: Add a user watchlist

Monthly CREDIT Showcase
Members of our community, Reading, Editing, Discovery and Technology teams show off new work and experiments.
 * Most Recent Showcase: October 5, 2016 (WebM on Commons or YouTube)
 * Past showcases

Wikimania 2016 Participation
Presentations by product teams at the recent Wikimania at Esino Lario, Italy.
 * Adapting for mobile consumption by Jon Katz & Nirzar Pangarkar (abstract, slides)
 * Wikimedia Foundation by Tilman Bayer (abstract, slides)
 * Content Translation training session by Amir E. Aharoni
 * Discussion: Rethinking the Layout of Wikipedia Articles
 * Discussion: Going mobile and keeping editing: needs and challenges to edit Wikipedia from mobile devices
 * Discussion: Edit review & curation tools: Creating a supportive process for new users
 * Most folks participated in the Hackathon as well

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

Updates

 * See Discovery/Status updates for the archive of past Discovery updates

Goals
Fiscal Year 2015-2016 Fiscal Year 2016-2017
 * Q1: July - September (WMF Q1 Review)
 * Q2: October - December (WMF Q2 Review)
 * Q3: January - March (WMF Q3 Review)
 * Q4: April - June (WMF Q4 Review)
 * Q1: July - September
 * 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

Goals
Fiscal Year 2015-2016 Fiscal Year 2016-2017
 * Q1: July–September (WMF Q1 Review)
 * Q2: October–December (WMF Q2 Review)
 * Q3: January–March (WMF Q3 Review)
 * Q4: April–June (WMF Q4 Review)
 * Q1: July–September
 * 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

Updates

 * Queue bugs and payment systems fail mail are still a major part of our work. We need to reduce the noise in our system so that we can respond quickly to emergencies during 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 focusing many small bugs and tool improvements for CIvi CRM and are in close coordination wit stakeholders.

Goals
Fiscal Year 2015-2016 Fiscal Year 2016-2017
 * Q2: October - December (WMF Q2 Review)
 * Q3: January - March (WMF Q3 Review)
 * Q4: April - June (WMF Q4 Review)
 * 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

Goals
Fiscal Year 2015-2016 Fiscal Year 2016-2017
 * Q1: July - September (WMF Q1 Review)
 * Q2: October - December (WMF Q2 Review)
 * Q3: January - March (WMF Q3 Review)
 * Q4: April - June (WMF Q4 Review)
 * Q1: July - September
 * 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

Updates

 * TPG will shadow New Readers meetings to determine what type of TPG engagement may be useful for the team (TPGer TBD)
 * Continuing to support WMF Values process
 * Planning a large cross team retrospective

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

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