Wikimedia Product/2018-19 Q4 Goals

Q3

Wikimedia Audiences Goals, FY2018–19, Q4 (April-June)

Q1

Purpose of this document: Goals for the Wikimedia Audiences department for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2018–19 (April – June 2019). The goal-setting process owner in each section is the person responsible for coordinating the completion of the section, in partnership with the team and relevant stakeholders.

Goals for the Technology department are available on their own page.

Contributors

Goal setting process owner: Danny Horn

Program	Annual Plan Outcome	Annual Plan Output	Team	Quarterly Goal	Dependency
Community Wishlist	Contributor productivity	Completing wishes from the 2017 survey and investigating new wishes from the 2019 survey	Community Tech	Complete feature development on “Who wrote that?” tool Complete feature development and release Event Metrics	Design
Management of Personal Data	Data portability	Wiki account data download	Community Tech	Release Data Portability tool	None
New Content	Progressive Onboarding	Human-to-human help	Growth	Deploy and iterate on newcomer homepage with controlled experiment. Determine whether it increases activation. Continued iteration on help panel to increase engagement and impact on activation/retention.  Analysis of retention. Make the help panel available to wikis beyond our target wikis.	Analytics Engineering, Legal, Community Ambassadors, Security, Analytics Engineering
	Mobile contributing	Visual-based mobile editing	Editing	Deploy Section Editing and Loading Screen Overlay to all wikis; product a report on impact.	None
	Local Language Content	Content translation	Language	Suport scenarios beyond starting new articles: expand existing content; and basic support for personal translation lists Improvements required to moving Content Translation out of beta	Security, community relations
	Communication	Talk page consultation	Contributors Product	Phase 2: Public ideation process, and an agreement on a direction for the project. (Actual development work on the feature/s expected to begin in Q1 2019.)	None
Community Health	Tools fo informed decisions when harassment occurs.	Improved blocking tools	AHT	Enable Partial Blocks on all wikis, except those who opt-out or need additional time to evaluate policies. Publish translated and scalable documentation and recommendations for use of Partial Blocks.	Trust & Safety
	Individual users can protect themselves	Mute features		Better handle local vs. global Mute preferences Design and deploy contextual entry points for the Mute features	None

Design

Goal setting process owner: Nirzar Pangarkar and Margeigh Novotny

Program	Annual Plan Outcome	Annual Plan Output	Team	Quarterly Goal	Dependency
New Content	Progressive onboarding	Movement organizers study	Design Strategy	Movement Organizers field reviews and synthesis of findings	None

Readers

Goal setting process owner: Jon Katz

Program	Annual Plan Outcome	Annual Plan Output	Team	Quarterly Goal	Dependency
New Content	Mobile Contributing	Android contributing	Android	Edit Action Feed v2: add/translate Commons image captions + design improvements	Reading Infrastructure
		Mobile web contributing	Web	Perform and deploy fixes for special pages for advanced mobile contributors Complete navigation changes for advanced mobile contributions	None
		iOS Contributing	iOS	Research and plan for watchlist Editor tasks feed (if proved on Android) Autocomplete suggestions for wikitext Retention notifications (if proved on Android) Link insert widget with link preview	None
Platform Evolution CDP	Engineers are able to access more functionality of the stack using well encapsulated components and well defined APIs	Refactor presentation layer away from business logic code in MediaWiki	Web	Review and refactor Minerva components (pt 2)	None
		Parsoid/PHP Ongoing Parser Unification	Parsing	Complete mechanical porting all files in the Parsoid codebase	None
		Parsoid/PHP	Parsing	Collaborate with Core Platform Team to implement Parsoid API in MediaWiki core	None