MediaWiki Product Insights
This page serves as a landing page for product research conducted to inform a strategic direction for MediaWiki and to explore questions around platform evolution, stewardship and developer experiences.
This work is anchored in the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual plan 2023-2024 (WE3 Knowledge Platform) but also goes beyond this timeline.
We'll be sharing about this work in monthly emails and presentations throughout the year.
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)
Goals for 2024-2025
[edit]Knowledge Platform I: 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)
Knowledge Platform II: Technical staff and volunteer developers have the tools they need to effectively support the Wikimedia projects (Wiki Experiences 6)