MediaWiki Product Insights
This page serves as a landing page for insights around the MediaWiki platform in Wikimedia's ecosystem, from product research over key initiatives to evolve the platform to improving the experience of developers who work on the platform or use its APIs.
The related objectives in the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual plan are WE3 Knowledge Platform (2023-2024), WE5 Knowledge Platform; WE6 Developer Services (2024-2025); and WE5 Responsible Use of Infrastructure; WE6 Accelerate Path to Product Outcomes (2025-2026).
Goals for 2025-2026
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Responsible Use of Infrastructure: Establish sustainable pathways for content reuse (Wiki Experiences 5)
- 5.1 Developer authentication and authorization
- 5.2 Evolve API offering
- 5.3 Attribution framework
- 5.4 Combat scraping
Accelerate Path to Product Outcomes: Simplify developer workflows & reduce platform and infrastructure risks (Wiki Experiences 6)
- 6.1 Reduce number of train-blocking bugs
- 6.2 Production readiness
- 6.3 Parser Unification/Parsoid Read Views
- 6.4 Reduce platform risks
Goals for 2024-2025
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Knowledge Platform: Evolve the MediaWiki platform and its interfaces to better meet Wikipedia's core needs (Wiki Experiences 5)
- Improve sustainability of the MediaWiki platform (5.1)
- Simplify and streamline feature development (5.2)
- Support current and future needs of encyclopedic content (5.3)
- Improve process for release and synchronize with php upgrades (5.4)
- Define strategy to evolve API offering (5.5)
Developer Services: Technical staff and volunteer developers have the tools they need to effectively support the Wikimedia projects (Wiki Experiences 6)
- Enable efficient decision making on developer workflows and services (6.1)
- Better serve developers’ testing needs (6.2)
- Improve sustainability of Toolforge ecosystem (6.3)
Goals for 2023-2024
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Knowledge Platform: Increase collaboration and efficiency among software developers by improving the development process for MediaWiki (Wiki Experiences 3)
- A strategy for MediaWiki - by June 30th, 2024 (WE3)
- A 20% increase of authors to selected MediaWiki repositories deployed in Wikimedia production - by June 30th, 2024 (WE3.2)
- Investing in developer experiences and reduce fragmentation of developer workflows (WE 3.1)
- Explore and resolve a set of questions related to MediaWiki product strategy, stewardship, and collaboration (WE 3.3)