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

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.

2016 Community Wishlist Survey

Proposals phase is from Nov 7 to the 20th. Submit proposals for features and changes that you want the team to work on, or comment on other proposals, and help to make them better!

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 Discovery team enabled snapshot (static map) service for he,ca,mk wikipedias. The wikipedias already have, and need to be updated to the snapshot service, which is also a good test for the snapshot service stability. The team also welcomed Erika Bjune as engineering manger recently.
 * 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

Recent Highlights

 * Monthly Language Team Report for October 2016. Articles created so far through October 133,853. Number of new translators during October 1,110.

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

 * 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 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

 * The WMF iOS app team pushed Wikipedia 5.3.0 beta 4 for iOS out this past week. In this beta, we have altered the criteria for when an "In the news" item should trigger a notification. Also added in this update, updated presentation of citations across tablets and phones, saved articles update character based on current Chinese language setting, fixed crashes for iPad Air 2 and Explore feed loading and fixed other small bug fixes and improvements
 * Reader Segmentation research presentation was giving at the monthly Metrics meeting in collaboration with research. They are planning their first in-depth public presentation on the results (1 hour) at the Research showcase on November 16.

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

 * Finalizing TPG engagements for new Agile Specialist
 * Adding lessons from latest offsites (RelEng and Editing) to best practices guide: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Planning_offsites
 * Quarterly check-in rollout: socializing changes, finalizing template, and scheduling trainings

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

 * Histropedia: “The power of data visualisation combined with free knowledge” on WMF's blog
 * Presenting the Wikidata Human Gender Indicators by Max Klein
 * How the world’s first Wikidata Visiting Scholar created linked open data for five thousand works of art on WMF's blog
 * Music in Canada at 150 Wikipedia Project, a multifaceted campaign to increase the amount and quality of content about Canadian music in Wikipedia and Wikidata


 * 400,000,000th edit was made and the average amount of statements per item became higher than five and is still growing.
 * Wikidata entities usage on Wikimedia projects

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