Purpose of this document: Goals for the Wikimedia Engineering and Product Development department, for the first quarter of fiscal year 2015–16 (1 July 2015 – 30 September 2015). The goal setting process owner in each section is the person responsible for coordinating completion of the section, in partnership with the team and relevant stakeholders.
Status fields can use the following templates: In progress, To do, N Postponed, Done or Partially done
Objective Key result Dependency ETA Status Publicly document the scope, roadmap, and processes for the team on-wiki and officially announce the team to the worldGoal setting process owner: Dan Garry
We build the anonymous path of discovery to a trusted and relevant source of knowledge.
Our focus will be on building on-top of our anonymous and trusted search stack to improve relevancy, expose additional content and leverage locally relevant knowledge.
Goal setting process owner: User:Trevor Parscal (WMF)
The Editing Department build collaborative, inclusive tools for creating and editing free knowledge. In Q1, the Department will focus on rationalizing technologies and strengthening engineering practices whilst delivering on the key user workflows for editors across the product range.
Involve more people than ever before in the collaborative effort of building free knowledge through improving the usability, stability and performance of VisualEditor, integrated with the developing reading experience.
Collaboration Team[edit]Increase communities’ capacity for collaboration, participation and curation across our wikis.
Enrich the content of our projects with more use of multimedia assets, by streamlining media contribution with UploadWizard, and evolving the rich editing experience to better suggest media.
Growing and accelerating projects with smaller content bases by providing and promoting enhanced Content Translation tools for translating content from projects with larger content bases.
Objective Key result Dependency ETA Status Move Content Translation out of beta feature for a subset of wikis. In Wikipedia in at least one language Content Translation is enabled by default.A conversion process from beta status to default status is defined.
End of September In progress Engage with the translators to keep them translating with the help of notifications, appreciations, campaigns and article suggestions. At least 33% of the users who published anything with CX, made at least 5 translations.At least 20,000 articles are published using CX.
End of September In progress Translation tool enhancements for better links, reference, dictionary support and provide the parallel corpora to enhance MT engines. Parallel corpora implemented, task 95886 resolved, so that third party machine translation developers can use the output of users of Content Translation. Access to at least 3 more dictionaries implemented. End of September In progress Have an initial exploration for mobile support An initial exploration plan written and reviewed task T105191. End of August In progressIncreasing the integrity, accessibility and stability of content by providing Parsoid as both a bridge for editing wikitext documents, but also a rendering system for viewing and querying them.
Goal setting process owner: User:AGomez_(WMF), User:Khorn_(WMF)
Goal setting process owner: Kevin Leduc
Release Engineering[edit]Goal setting process owner: Greg Grossmeier
All tracked in: #releng-201516-q1 - More details at Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Goals/201516Q1
Objective Key result Dependency ETA Status STRENGTHENIsolate our Continuous Integration instances
Improve deployment tooling
Services / Operations
EOQ Partially done FOCUSMigrate Gerrit to Differential
Goal setting process owner: Gabriel Wicke
Tracked in: T102306
Objective Key result Dependency ETA Status Mobile app service deployment and APIReduce app load times and duplicated development effort with an app API, providing app-specific content and metadata, backed by a service built by the app team.
Add the storage and throughput we'll need to store more types of content, as well as historical revisions. Establish redundancy at the DC level for site availability and disaster recovery.
Changes to structured data and other events need to be propagated through storage and cache layers. Our current systems are not up to the task, which holds back development and causes bugs. We aim to make change propagation reliable, efficient, and manageable for developers.
Goal setting process owner: User:Mark Bergsma (WMF)
Goal setting process owner: User:Mark Bergsma (WMF)
For full set of internal goals, see: Reading/Strategy and Roadmap
UI Standardization team[edit]In progress
Goal-setting process owner: Ori Livneh
Speed is Wikipedia's killer feature. ("Wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian.) As the Wikimedia Foundation’s Performance team, we want to create value for readers and editors by making it possible to retrieve and render content at the speed of thought, from anywhere in the world, on the broadest range of devices and connection profiles.
The following is a summary of the Performance Team Goals.
(T102306)
Objective Key result Dependency ETA Status ~30% improvement in site performance in 3 months.In Wikimedia Research we use qualitative and quantitative methods to provide strategic insights and technological solutions to the movement and the Foundation, to foster innovation and to inform the development of new products.
Our focus in Q1 will be on scaling up and evaluating data-intensive services the team has been designing: an edit and article quality classification API and recommender systems for article creation. Time permitting, we will kick off a project to measure who adds value to Wikipedia and iterate on article creation recommendations, as stretch goals.
Goal setting process owner: Dario Taraborelli [ Wikimedia Research goals overview ]
Our focus in Q1 will be to coordinate and implement both evaluative and generative design research for the prioritized product track projects as well as iterating our pragmatic personas toward being fully researched Personas. Time permitting, we will mentor and collaborate with designers and prototypers toward doing usability testing for thier track teams, and we will grow our participant database.
Goal setting process owner: Abbey Ripstra [ Wikimedia Research goals overview ]
Goal setting process owner: User:CSteipp (WMF)
We make life hard for the people who want to harm our sites or the people that use them. During Q1, the Security Team will focus on making security measurable, in addition to maintaining the safety of our sites and users. The following is a summary of the Security Team Goals.
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