Wikimedia Research/Goals/FY18Q1

Goal setting process owner: Dario Taraborelli [ Wikimedia Research goals overview ] [Wikimedia Research annual plan overview]

Annual Program/Outcome	Quarterly Objective	Dependencies	Team Members	ETA	Status
Program 12: Grow contributor diversity. Outcome 1: We improve Wikipedia’s contributor diversity after designing and testing potential intervention(s). Objective 1: Identify the underlying (potential) causes of lack of representative contribution from certain demographics task T166083 Objective 2: Design frameworks to change the current socio-technical infrastructure to address at least one of the underlying causes of lack of representativeness	Create one or more formal collaborations for this research (T166085) Perform a literature review and potentially run survey(s) to identify the self-reported causes of imbalanced representation in contribution (T175215) Initiate the design of a framework to address one of the identified/hypothesized causes of imbalance in contributor demographics, if time permits. (Stretch) Run a couple of quick surveys to get a better sense of where in the pipeline we start loosing diversity. (Stretch)	External collaborators (Bob and Jerome)	Leila	EOQ	Done The second stretch goal is under review and may move to the next quarter depending on its engineering needs. This latter goal is a nice-to-have that we can afford to drop if needed.
Program 9: Growing Wikipedia across languages via recommendations. Outcome 1: Surface relevant information about the articles to editors at the time of editing with the goal of helping editathon organizers Objective 1: Build, improve, and expand algorithms the can provide more detailed recommendations to editors and editathon organizers on how to expand articles/family-of-articles	Clean up the category system for machine consumption (this has been the focus for the past few months and we are very close to have a solution) Start surfacing recommendations to collect feedback from editathon organizers (T174738)	External collaborators (Bob, Michele, Tiziano)	Leila		Done
Cross Departmental: Structured Data on Commons. Segment 4: Programs. Outcome 2: Develop a better understanding of existing needs for Structured Commons (task T152248)	Develop interview protocol interview 6-8 GLAM stakeholders Share initial user stories and research themes at Structured Data offsite		Jonathan	EOQ	In progress