Wikimedia Product

Annual Roadmap

 * Annual Plan for Product 2017-2018
 * Annual Plan for Product 2016-2017
 * 2016 Product Summary
 * 2015 Product & Technology Review

Across Audiences

 * Technical Collaboration Guideline
 * Development Principles
 * Design Statement of Purpose
 * Data and research information for products and Monthly Research Showcases.
 * Program: Community Health Initiative
 * Program: Structured Data on Commons
 * Program: New Readers ongoing research that focuses on understanding potential Wikimedia readers in countries where access to the internet is quickly growing.
 * Program: Audience Research

Audiences-Community Interaction Events

 * 2017 Dev Summit: San Francisco, United States
 * 2017 Wikimedia Conference: Berlin, Germany
 * 2017 Hackathon: Vienna, Austria
 * 2017 Wikimania: Montréal, Canada

Audiences & Teams
An Audience is a set of features developed according to specific user flows and audiences.

Discovery Audience
We build the anonymous path of discovery to a trusted and relevant source of knowledge.
 * Discovery Page: Discovery
 * Discovery Product Lead: Deb Tankersley
 * Discovery Engineering Lead: Erika Bjune
 * Phabricator task boards: Search (Sprint), Interactive, Portal, WDQS, Analysis (Sprint)
 * Discovery Projects: Maps, Search, Wikidata Query Service, Portal

Recent Highlights
En:Sparkline
 * Inter-wiki search is here! An A/B test of a new search results page which includes inter-wiki search results was deployed to Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias. Take a look and give us feedback!

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

Contributors Audience
We build collaborative, inclusive tools for creating and editing free knowledge.
 * Contributors page: Contributors
 * Contributors head: Trevor Parscal
 * Phabricator task boards: #Contributors-Team; #Collaboration-Team-Current, #ContentTranslation-Release8, #Parsoid, #VisualEditor
 * Contributors teams: Editing, Collaboration, Language, Parsing plus Design and Product

Metrics analysis

 * Existing active editors continues to be stable and even slightly increase
 * On the other hand, new editors have continued their trend of moderate decline from the past couple of years. A provisional analysis of the new editor retention rate during these years suggests that the reason is not declining retention of new users.

Recent Highlights
Neil Patel Quinn is supporting the New Editor Experiences project for Contributors; he is currently helping lead the focus selection and idea generation stage.

The filters on Recent Changes beta feature now lets you save sets of filters, with further improvements coming soon.

The Linter tool, which helps editors find and highlight wikitext errors, is now available on all wikis except the largest (like MediaWiki.org – see the linting index page). We will release it to the remaining wikis soon, once performance concerns are addressed.

Improvements to Content Translation to replace its editor with the same platform as the visual editor continue.

In the visual editor, you can now see visual diffs as you edit. We will improve and expand it in the weeks ahead.

Our work on deploying Compact Language Links out of beta (T66793) is nearing completion. It is available to everyone on all wikis except two Wikipedias, English and German. (T136677)

Our work to release the visual editor to all Wikipedias is now almost complete. There are now outstanding only the eight multi-script Wikipedias (including Chinese) which are technologically blocked, on which we're working with Parsing. There are also three other Wikipedias in incomplete deployment states (English, Spanish and Dutch), for which work is paused pending the new wikitext editor release, and won't resume until some point, probably in mid-to-late-2017.

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

Reading Audience
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 2016-2017
 * Q1: July – September 2016 (WMF Q1 Review)
 * Q2: October – December 2016 (WMF Q2 Review)
 * Q3: January – March 2017 (WMF Q3 Review)
 * Q4: April – June 2017

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
WMDE Fiscal Year 2016 WMDE Fiscal Year 2017
 * Q1: January – March
 * Q2: April – June
 * Q3: July – September
 * Q4: October – December
 * Q1: January – March
 * Q2: April – June
 * Q3: July – September
 * Q4: October – December