Wikimedia Technology/Goals/2017-18 Q4
Introduction
[edit]Purpose of this document
[edit]Goals for the Wikimedia Technology department, for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2017–18 (April - June 2018). The goal owner in each section is the person responsible for coordinating completion of the section, in partnership with the team(s) and relevant stakeholders.
Goals for the Audiences department are available on their own page
Legend
[edit]Tech Goal categorizes work into one or more of these quadrants:
| A Foundation level goals | C Features that we build to improve our technology offering |
| B Features we build for others | D Modernization, renewal and tech debt goals |
ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) fields may use the acronym EOQ (End of Quarter) or EOY (End of Year).
Status fields can use the following templates: 
In progress, 
To do, 
Postponed, 
Done or 
Partially done
Technology departmental programs
[edit]Overall goal owner: Mark Bergsma
- Owner for Outcome 1: Mark Bergsma
- Owner for Outcome 2: Ian Marlier
- Owner for Outcome 3: Nuria Ruiz
- Owner for Outcome 4: Bryan Davis
- Owner for Outcomes 5 and 6: Greg Grossmeier
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome 1: All production sites and services maintain current levels of availability or better. | Objective 1: Deploy, update, configure, and maintain production services (Traffic infrastructure, databases & storage, MediaWiki application servers, (micro)services, network, and miscellaneous sites & services) | Update MediaWiki application server platform and prepare for PHP7
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D | EOQ | Done
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| Outcome 1: All production sites and services maintain current levels of availability or better. | Objective 1: Deploy, update, configure, and maintain production services (Traffic infrastructure, databases & storage, MediaWiki application servers, (micro)services, network, and miscellaneous sites & services) | Stabilize Sanitarium
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D | EOQ | Done
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| Outcome 1: All production sites and services maintain current levels of availability or better. | Objective 1: Deploy, update, configure, and maintain production services (Traffic infrastructure, databases & storage, MediaWiki application servers, (micro)services, network, and miscellaneous sites & services) | Release and deploy Debmonitor (patch management software)
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D | EOQ | Partially done
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| Outcome 2: All users consistently experience systems that perform well: | Objective 1: Maintain a comprehensive toolset to measure the performance of our platforms |
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Performance | EOQ | In progress
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| Outcome 2: All users consistently experience systems that perform well: | Objective 2: Catch and address performance regressions in a timely fashion through automation |
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Performance | FRTech | EOQ | ||
| Outcome 2: All users consistently experience systems that perform well: | Objective 3: Modernize our performance toolset. We will measure performance metrics that are closer to what users experience. |
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| Outcome 3: We have scalable, reliable and secure systems for data transport.: | Objective 2: Consolidation of analytics Kafka infrastructure to tier-1 requirements, including TLS encryption task T152015: |
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Analytics | Operations, Services | EOQ | Done
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| Outcome 3: We have scalable, reliable and secure systems for data transport.: | Objective 2: Maintenance and expansion of current Hadoop cluster to support new use cases that require more computational resources: | Upgrade of Druid 0.11 task T164008 | Analytics | EOQ | Done
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| Outcome 3: We have scalable, reliable and secure systems for data transport.: | Objective 3:' Software, hardware upgrades, and maintenance on analytics stack to maintain current level of service: |
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Analytics | EOQ | Done
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| Outcome 3: We have scalable, reliable and secure systems for data transport. | Objective 3: Software, hardware upgrades, and maintenance on analytics stack to maintain current level of service: |
Event Data Platform initial project planning
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Analytics | Operations, Services | EOQ | To do
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| Outcome 4: Wikimedia Cloud Services users can leverage a reliable and public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) product ecosystem for VPS hosting. | Objective 2: Pay down technical debt and allow upgrading of the core OpenStack platform to modern, supported releases by replacing the current network topology layer with OpenStack Neutron, which has become the standard for most OpenStack deployments. | Continue work towards full deployment of Neutron software defined network layer by upgrading all OpenStack components to the "Mitaka" release or newer in the labtest, labtestn, and main OpenStack clusters. | WMCS | C: Improving our offering
D: Tech debt |
EOQ | Done
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| Outcome 5: We have effective and easy-to-use testing infrastructure and tooling for developers. | Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure | Migrate away from Nodepool - task T190097
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Release Engineering | SRE, WMCS | B: For others | EOQ | Partially done
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Goal owner: Tim Starling
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome 1: Stakeholders in MediaWiki development will have sense of progress and direction in MediaWiki. | Objective 1: Develop a MediaWiki roadmap | Planning for the Platform Evolution CDP | MediaWiki/Audiences | D Modernization, renewal and tech debt goals | EOQ | In progress
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| Outcome 2: MediaWiki code quality will be improved. | Objective 2: Break up large classes and source files | Namespacization (task T166010) | MediaWiki | D Modernization, renewal and tech debt goals | EOQ | Postponed
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| Outcome 3: MediaWiki security and stability will be improved. | Objective 1: Address the backlog of action items that arise from security and downtime post-mortems | Execute scripts to cease using unserialize() for MediaWiki text storage (task T181555) | MediaWiki | C Features that we build to improve our technology offering | EOQ | In progress
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| Outcome 3: MediaWiki security and stability will be improved. | Objective 1: Address the backlog of action items that arise from security and downtime post-mortems | Investigate the use of Content-Security-Policy (CSP) headers in MediaWiki task T135963 | MediaWiki | C Features that we build to improve our technology offering | EOQ | Not done (watching, work will be done by another team)
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Goal owner: Jean-Rene Branaa
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome 1: The amount of orphaned code that is running Wikimedia “production” services is reduced. | Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans - task T174091 | Broad roll out of Code Stewardship model.
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Release Engineering |
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C: Tech Debt | EOQ | Done
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| Outcome 2: Organizational technical debt is reduced. | Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation | Roll out of technical debt reduction approaches.
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Release Engineering |
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C: Tech Debt | EOQ | Done
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| Outcome 2: Organizational technical debt is reduced. | Objective 3: Promote and surface important technical debt topics at large gatherings of Wikimedia developers (e.g., Hackathon) | Promote and surface important technical debt topics at Hackathon in May 2018 | Release Engineering | Code Health Group, Technical Debt SIG | C: Tech Debt | EOQ | Done
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Overall goal owner: Bryan Davis
- Owner for Outcome 1: Bryan Davis
- Owner for Outcomes 2 and 4: Dario Taraborelli
- Owner for Outcome 3: Cindy Cicalese
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome 1: Becoming a technical contributor to the Wikimedia movement by creating and maintaining 'tools' (bots, webservices, etc) and other innovative solutions is easier than it has been historically because documentation is easier to find, more comprehensive, and descriptive of start to finish steps needed to solve common problems. Cloud Services product users feel comfortable sharing their knowledge with others as part of a community with a culture of sharing via documentation and mutual support. | Objective 1: Collaborate with community to find volunteers willing to form a documentation Special Interest Group to update documentation of existing Cloud Services products |
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WMCS | A: Foundation goal (Community)
B: Serving our audiences C: Improving our offering |
EOQ | Done
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| Outcome 1: Becoming a technical contributor to the Wikimedia movement by creating and maintaining 'tools' (bots, webservices, etc) and other innovative solutions is easier than it has been historically because documentation is easier to find, more comprehensive, and descriptive of start to finish steps needed to solve common problems. Cloud Services product users feel comfortable sharing their knowledge with others as part of a community with a culture of sharing via documentation and mutual support. | Objective 3: Increase community awareness of volunteer developed Tools
(Added for Q4; not in official plan) |
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WMCS | Technical Collaboration | A: Foundation goal (Community)
B: Serving our audiences C: Improving our offering |
EOQ | Done
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| Outcome 3: Value-added vendors who provide services and support based on Wikimedia software and true 'third parties' who install and use software produced by the Wikimedia movement on their own computers are more confident in recommending, deploying, and extending Wikimedia FLOSS projects. | Objective 1: Establish canonical point of contact for third-parties by promoting the existence of a dedicated technical liaison for software projects with support for third-party users | Establish channels of communication with third-party developers (task T184606) | MediaWiki | Technical Collaboration | B: Features we build for others | EOQ | In progress
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| Outcome 3: Value-added vendors who provide services and support based on Wikimedia software and true 'third parties' who install and use software produced by the Wikimedia movement on their own computers are more confident in recommending, deploying, and extending Wikimedia FLOSS projects. | Objective 2: Clarify the Foundation’s short- and long-term commitments to third-party users. Create, publish, and promote a multi-tiered, third-party support level system for Wikimedia software projects. Document the support level of existing FLOSS projects and ensure that the documented levels of support are delivered. | Expand the set of bundled extensions to achieve a default MediaWiki experience that's comparable to Wikimedia sites (task T178349) | MediaWiki | Release Engineering | B: Features we build for others | EOQ | In progress
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| Outcome 3: Value-added vendors who provide services and support based on Wikimedia software and true 'third parties' who install and use software produced by the Wikimedia movement on their own computers are more confident in recommending, deploying, and extending Wikimedia FLOSS projects. | Objective 2: Clarify the Foundation’s short- and long-term commitments to third-party users. Create, publish, and promote a multi-tiered, third-party support level system for Wikimedia software projects. Document the support level of existing FLOSS projects and ensure that the documented levels of support are delivered. | Improve extension management (task T88596) | MediaWiki | B: Features we build for others | EOQ | In progress
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| Outcome 3: Value-added vendors who provide services and support based on Wikimedia software and true 'third parties' who install and use software produced by the Wikimedia movement on their own computers are more confident in recommending, deploying, and extending Wikimedia FLOSS projects. | Objective 2: Clarify the Foundation’s short- and long-term commitments to third-party users. Create, publish, and promote a multi-tiered, third-party support level system for Wikimedia software projects. Document the support level of existing FLOSS projects and ensure that the documented levels of support are delivered. | Develop a business model to support MediaWiki 3rd party usage | MediaWiki | B: Features we build for others | EOQ | In progress
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| Outcome 4: The collaboration with research in industry and academics is further scaled and supported. | Objective 1: Organize and host the annual Wiki Research Workshop (task T171118) | Research | Workshop co-organizers | A: Foundation goal (Community)
B: Serving our audiences |
EOQ | Done
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Goal owner: Aaron Halfaker
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome 1: Tool developers and Product teams can innovate tools that use machine prediction to make wiki-work more efficient | Read and write ORES predictions for article quality, draft quality, and draft topic into MediaWiki (task T190471) | Scoring Platform | EOQ | Done
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| Outcome 2: Volunteers are empowered to track trends in prediction bias and other failures of AI in the wiki. | Objective 1: Develop best practices for using community input to improve/correct predictions | Implement a method for reading JADE data into ORES (task T190472 | Scoring Platform | EOQ | Postponed
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| Outcome 2: Volunteers are empowered to track trends in prediction bias and other failures of AI in the wiki. | Objective 1: Develop best practices for using community input to improve/correct predictions | Write a systems paper about ORES highlighting our version of transparent AI (task T121719) | Scoring Platform | April 19th | Done
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| Outcome 1: Tool developers and Product teams can innovate tools that use machine prediction to make wiki-work more efficient | Objective 1: Expand vandalism & good-faith detection models to more wikis (focus on Emerging Communities) | Existing ORES service support and stability | Scoring Platform | Operations | continuous | Done
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Goal owner: Greg Grossmeier (Mark Bergsma)
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome 2: Developers are able to develop and test their applications through a unified pipeline towards production deployment. | Objective 2: Prove viability of testing staged service containers alongside MediaWiki extension containers |
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Release Engineering | SRE,
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C: Tech Debt D. Improve our own feature set |
EOQ | Postponed
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Overall goal owner: Nuria Ruiz
- Outcome 1 owner: Nuria Ruiz
- Outcome 2 owner: Marko Obrovac
- Outcome 3 owner: Bryan Davis
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome 1: Foundation staff and community have better tools to access data. | Objective 1: Wikistats 2.0 redesign |
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Analytics | EOQ | To do
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| Outcome 1: Foundation staff and community have better tools to access data. | Objective 1: Wikistats 2.0 redesign | More resilient backend for wikistats: task T177965 | EOQ | Done
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| Outcome 1: Foundation staff and community have better tools to access data. | Objective 2: Better visual access to EventLogging data | Enable automatic ingestion from eventlogging into druid for some schemas task T190855 | Analytics | EOQ | Not done
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| Outcome 1: Foundation staff and community have better tools to access data. | Objective 1: Users see improvements on data computing and data quality.: | Archive old geowiki data (editors per country) and make it easily available at WMF. task T190856 | Analytics | EOQ | Done
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| Outcome 1: Foundation staff and community have better tools to access data. | Objective 1: Experiments with real-time data and community support for new datasets available | Build public eventstream endpoint on top of revision score data for every edit task T167180 | Analytics | EOQ | Done
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| Outcome 2: Access to Wikimedia content and data with scalable APIs | Objective 1: Revision storage scaling | Support for language variants:
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Service Platform | SRE, Parsing team | D: Tech debt | EOQ | In progress
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| Outcome 4: Users see improvements on data computing and data quality. | Objective 3: Build prototype for MediaWiki content processing. For example: ingest and process text on every wikipedia page to use later for analytics-style computations. | STRETCH GOAL: Build prototype for MediaWiki content processing. For example: ingest and process text on every wikipedia page to use later for analytics-style computations. task T190858 | Analytics | EOQ | To do
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| Outcome 4: Users see improvements on data computing and data quality. | Objective 3: More efficient Bot filtering on pageview data. | STRETCH GOAL: Build POC for bot classifier task T138207 | Analytics | EOQ | To do
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Overall goal owner: Tim Starling
- Outcome 1 owner: Tim Starling
- Outcome 1, Objective 3 owner: Mark Bergsma
- Outcome 2, Objective 1 owner: Marko Obrovac
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome 1: Our audiences enjoy improved MediaWiki and REST API availability and reduced wiki read-only impact from data center fail-overs. | Objective 1: MediaWiki support for having read-only “read” requests (GET/HEAD) be routed to other data centers | Fix any remaining MediaWiki blockers to multi-DC deployment |
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D: Tech Debt | EOQ | Partially done
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| Outcome 1: Our audiences enjoy improved MediaWiki and REST API availability and reduced wiki read-only impact from data center fail-overs. | Objective 2: Test an active/active deployment for read-only requests of the MediaWiki application platform and REST APIs |
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| Outcome 2: Backend infrastructure works reliably across data centers | Objective 1: Reliable, multi-DC job processing | Complete the JobQueue transition to EventBus
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Services Platform |
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D: Tech debt | EOQ | Done
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Goal owner: Leila Zia
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| 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 that can provide more detailed recommendations to editors about how an article could be expanded. (task task T171224) |
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Research | External collaborators | B, C | EOQ | In progress
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| Outcome 1: Surface relevant information about the articles to editors at the time of editing with the goal of helping editathon organizers | Objective 2: Develop and gather design requirements for how the algorithms’ results should be exposed to the editors. (task T171225) | Design to allow the user of the API or the gadget see and report issues in category sequences behind a section recommendation (task T190773) | Research | Pau, External collaborators | B, C | EOQ | Template:Postponed |
| Outcome 2: Editors can benefit from improved recommendations exposed via recommendation API, in Content Translation, and the Editor Dashboard tool. | Objective 1: Continue experimenting (and implementing when applicable) algorithmic improvements on article recommendation for creation (the service behind GapFinder and Suggestions feature in Content Translation tool) | Improve the prioritization algorithm used in recommendation API (task T190774) | Research | B, C | EOQ | In progress
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Goal owner: Bryan Davis
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome 3: Wikimedia community members, Foundation staff, and potential contributors are aware of the breadth of products and services offered by the Cloud Services team. | Objective 1: Promote available services and products at relevant conferences, hackathons, and within the Wikimedia communities | Present on Cloud Services products and initiatives at the Barcelona Hackathon, May 2018 | WMCS | A: Foundation goal (Community)
B: Serving our audiences |
May | Done
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Goal owner: Dario Taraborelli
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome 1: Quantitative research is available to help Wikipedia and Wikidata contributors focus and prioritize their sourcing efforts. | Objective 1: Estimate what proportion of content in Wikipedia or Wikidata is unsourced and in need of citations. (task T171230) |
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Research | External collaborations | B, C | EOQ | |
| Outcome 1: Quantitative research is available to help Wikipedia and Wikidata contributors focus and prioritize their sourcing efforts. | Objective 2: Collect and analyze clickthrough data for footnotes and external links to understand how readers interact with them (task T171231) | Instrumentation, data collection, first round of descriptive analysis (task T191086) | Research | External collaborations | B, C | EOQ | In progress
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| Outcome 3: Outreach activities continue to ensure community and technical efforts to improve the structure and quality of citations are aligned | Objective 1: Fundraise for, and host the 3rd annual meeting in the WikiCite series | Host a thematic WikiCite track at the Wikimedia Hackathon in Barcelona (task T191087) | Research | B | EOQ | In progress
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Goal owner: Leila Zia
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome 1: We improve Wikipedia’s contributor diversity after designing and testing potential intervention(s). | Objective 3: Run experiment(s) to assess whether the recommended design will have the desired outcome |
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Research | Community :) | B, C | EOQ | In progress
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Note: When the draft annual plan was written, the Search Platform and Fundraising Tech teams were in Product. They were moved into Technology during the "tune-up" in June 2017.
Goal owner: Erika Bjune
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome 1: Readers are better able to discover and search for content. | Objective 1: Implement advanced methodologies such as “learning to rank” machine learning techniques and signals to improve search result relevance across language Wikipedias. |
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Search Platform | C | EOQ | In progress
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| Outcome 1: Readers are better able to discover and search for content. | Objective 2: Improve support for multiple languages by researching and deploying new language analyzers as they make sense to individual language wikis. |
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Search Platform | C | EOQ | Done
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| Outcome 1: Readers are better able to discover and search for content. | Objective 3: Advanced search capabilities (e.g., Wikidata Query Service, SPARQL queries) will be updated to support the more specific media search filters and the relationships to the topics they represent. |
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Search Platform, WMDE | C | EOQ | Done
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| Outcome 1: Readers are better able to discover and search for content. | Technical Debt/Maintenance | Prepare CirrusSearch for Elasticsearch 6 (T194199) | Search Platform | D | EOQ | Done
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| Outcome 2: Through improvements to the user experience of search interfaces, users are better able to find content in an intuitive and easy way. | Objective 1: Investigate how to expand and scale Wikidata Query Service to improve its ability to power features on-wiki for readers |
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Search Platform | WMDE | C | EOQ | Done
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Goal owner: Katie Horn
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome: Advancement and fr-tech find a solution that lowers or does not increase current maintenance costs. | We are continuing with the Ingenico reintegration and scoping Contribution tracking | Make Ingenico "campaign ready" | Fr-tech | Advancement operations and Banner team | D | EOQ | In progress
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Goal owner: Katie Horn
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome: In FY 16/17 four well-trained team members spent 106 hours on deduping related to the English campaign. One of those employees may not be available for this task next year and a new contractor may help. We still hope to reduce the hours spent. | Switch to support of manual dedupe | supporting manual dedupe and scoping next year | Fr-tech | Major Gifts, Donor Services, Email team | B | EOQ | In progress
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Segment 3: Research on harassment
[edit]Goal owner: Dario Taraborelli
- Note: no specific goals for this quarter
Segment 2: Privacy and Data Management
[edit]Goal owner: Nuria Ruiz
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome 2: To protect user data and uphold movement values, the Wikimedia Foundation continues compliance with best practices for data management |
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Analytics, Legal, Security | Ongoing | In progress
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| Outcome 3: Maintain and enhance connection privacy and security | Objective 2: Keep up with evolving public-facing TLS Standards and enhancements (e.g. HPKP, TLSv1.3, ciphersuites) | Establish timeline and methodology for upcoming deprecation of non-forward-secret ciphers and TLSv1.0; begin execution of non-forward-secret ciphers deprecation. | SRE/Traffic | CE/Community Liasons | D | EOQ | To do
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Segment 2: Security
[edit]Note: When the annual plan was written, the Security team's goals were not part of the annual plan, but they still needed to be addressed.
Goal owner: John Bennett
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Security | EOQ |
Segment 1: Database Integration
[edit]Goal owner: Tim Starling
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome 2: Introduce Multi-Content Revisions | Objective 2: Enable saving components to use the new backend. Update transaction management facilities to ensure changes to one or more types of content in a page are committed safely in the database and related systems. |
Assist with the implementation of the MCR storage layer by completing the following tasks (phase 1):
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MediaWiki Platform, WMDE | B, C | EOQ | In progress
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Goal owner: Erika Bjune
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome 1: It is easier for people to discover, learn, and manage the free media stored on Commons and thereby incentivize higher contribution rates. | Objective 1: Commons search will be extended via CirrusSearch and Elasticsearch and Wikidata Query Service, to support searching based on structured data elements describing media. |
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Search Platform, Multimedia | C | EOQ | To do
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Goal owner: Jonathan Morgan
| Annual plan outcome | Annual plan objective(s) | Quarterly Work (or Goal) | Primary Team(s) | Dependencies | Tech Goal | ETA | Status |
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| Outcome 2: Develop a better understanding of existing needs for Structured Commons | Objective 2: Write case studies and documentation for Commons and Wikidata projects that allow project development among Wikimedia Communities and allow us to identify gaps in existing tools (task T171252). |
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Research | Community programs, Multimedia | C | Q1 FY18/19 | Partially done
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