Wikimedia Product/2017-18 Q1 Goals
 Q4 (with Technology) |
Wikimedia Audiences Goals, FY2017–18, Q1 (July – September) | Q2 |
Purpose of this document: Goals for the Wikimedia Audiences department for the first quarter of fiscal year 2017–18 (July 2017 – September 2017). 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.
Goals for the Technology department are available on their own page.
Status fields can use the following templates: 
In progress, 
To do, 
Postponed, 
Done or 
Partially done
ETA fields may use the initialism EOQ (End of Quarter).
Focused on meeting the needs of active Wikimedia editors for improved, expert-focused curation and moderation tools.
Goal setting process owner: Danny Horn
| Team | Objective | Key result | Dependency | ETA | Status |
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| Anti-Harassment Tools | Increase the confidence of our admins for resolving disputes | Plan, measure, and analyze baseline confidence of English Wikipedia admins with their ability to make accurate and efficient decisions in conduct disputes (focusing on their use of tools, processes, their training, community policies and WMF policies), measured via focus groups and/or survey. | Community Engagement | EOQ | Done
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| Assist Support & Safety in preparing a qualitative research methodology for measuring the expectations and experiences of people using our main noticeboards for user disputes. | Support & Safety | EOQ | Done
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| Improve the quality of existing admin tools | Implement performance and anti-spoof improvements to AbuseFilter, allowing admins to block recurring harmful edits | EOQ | Done
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| With the Wikipedia community, research and plan the User Interaction History feature, allowing admins to evaluate and understand the sequence of events between 2+ users. | EOQ | In progress
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| Conduct community consultation for page-specific blocking, allowing admins to block a user from editing a specific page | EOQ | In progress
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| Empower individual users to protect themselves on the MediaWiki platform | Finish and release the Mute feature, which allows users to privately list usernames from which they do not want to receive Echo and email notifications and Special:EmailUser emails. | EOQ | Done
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| Community Wishlist | Improve very active contributors' productivity | Rollout support for section heading URLs for non-Latin languages (wish #3) | EOQ | In progress
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| Create a technical plan for Global preferences (wish #4) | Technical Operations | EOQ | Done
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| Represent both large and small communities | Build a Grant metrics tool that automatically counts and updates important metrics | Community Resources | EOQ | In progress
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| Begin ACTRIAL experiment on Enwiki to measure the impact of directing new users who create new pages to the Article Wizard, in partnership with the New Page Patrol community | New Page Patrol community, Research and Data | EOQ | Done
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Maintain and improve content creation and editing tools.
Goal setting process owner: Trevor Parscal
| Team | Objective | Key result | Dependency | ETA | Status |
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| Editing | 3.1: Improve and consolidate our unified editing platform so that it's great on all devices | Complete conversion of CX editing surface to use VE platform. | Community Liaisons | EOQ | Work continues
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| Global Collaboration | 5.2.1: Apply the new recent changes filters technology with Machine Learning to other contexts like watchlists and history pages | Roll out the recent changes filters to all users on all wikis. | Community Liaisons | EOQ | Done
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| 5.3.2: Improve structured discussion features for the communities that use them, based on user feedback and prioritising technical debt | Triage the list of planned changes to Structured Discussions, sequencing them for they year, and begin work on at least one of them. | Community Liaisons | EOQ | Done
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| Parsing | 3.6: Support work towards unifying MediaWiki's parser implementations, in liaison with Technology's MediaWiki team | Switch from Tidy to RemexHtml in Wikimedia production. | Community Liaisons
MediaWiki team |
Q2+ | Work continues as planned
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| Design | 3.5: Modernise user interface technologies to encompass mobile and desktop platforms, with continued work on the Wikimedia-wide adoption of a standard Web user interface library | Expand roll-out of converted OOjs UI buttons in the 2010 wikitext editor to all wikis in desktop. | Community Liaisons | EOQ | Done
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| New Editor Experiences | 4.1: Expand and deepen our understanding of the experiences of new editors in emerging communities based on generative research | Produce a prioritised list of possible interventions based on the New Editor Experiences project and generative research for wider discussion and then selection. | Community Liaisons
Audience Design |
EOQ | Delayed
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Increase our global reach by increasing readership.
Goal setting process owner: Jon Katz
| Team | Objective | Key result | Dependency | ETA | Status |
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| Reading Web |
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Begin work on new mobile website with a focus on performance and connection management - set up development infrastructure, define MVP for initial feature set, plan user testing for connection management workflows | Reading infrastructure, Services, Legal | Ongoing, full roadmap for project can be found on the project page | To do
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| Provide a smoother reading experience by improving the ways that users can flag articles of interest for later consumption |
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Community Liaisons, Reading Infrastructure, Services, TechOps | EOQ | To do
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| Discovery | 1.2.1: Search Frontend—Improve user interface of search results page to help users explore content and discover more content across the projects | Finish up testing of the Explore Similar feature on search results page; analyze data and gather community feedback; request internationalization strings; deploy feature | Community Engagement, Analytics, Operations | EOQ | Done
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| 1.2.3: Portal—Experiment with wikipedia.org to improve its ability to serve as a landing page for finding content in Wikimedia sites, such as trending articles | Maintain the portal by fixing critical bugs, performing regular statistics and translations updates | Operations | On-going | Done
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| 1.3.1: Maps—Ensure that the current map functionality is rolled out and supported across the projects. | Finalize and deploy the new map style; monitoring service for critical bugs; increase frequency of OSM replication | Community Engagement, Operations | On-going | In progress
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| Reading Infrastructure | Support power users across devices by developing a Reading List Service | Develop a Reading list Service. Deploy to production and integrate into one client | Services, Ops | EOQ | In progress
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| Improve reliability and consistency of page display by normalizing page content for Reader clients | Deploy Beta of Page Content Service and begin integrating into at least one client | TechCom, Services, Ops | EOQ | In progress
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| Android app | Iterate and improve new app features that drive reuse and learning by high-affinity readers | Update Explore feed to provide fresher and more customizable experience to improve use and user investment in the app. | None | EOQ | To do
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| iOS app | Iterate and improve new app features that drive reuse and learning by high-affinity readers | Develop and release to beta a Reading Lists to allow users to organize saved pages into folders and to sync those lists across devices when logged in. | Reading Infrastructure | EOQ | To do
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| Multimedia | Support more expressive media formats, namely 3D models (the 11th most requested item in the 2015 wishlist). | Ship 3D model support to production with the Commons community. | Community Liaisons, Communications; possibly TechOps, Services, Performance | EOQ | To do
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Program Management
[edit]Managing large-scale, cross-team programs
Goal setting process owner: Anne Gomez
| Team | Objective | Key result | Dependency | ETA | Status |
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| New Readers | 1.1 Coordinated marketing efforts (campaigns) with launch events in target countries/markets that educate potential readers on what Wikipedia is and the value that it offers, developed in partnership with local networks of advocates. The New Readers team pilots awareness-building efforts that consult, collaborate, and train community members on how to continue strategic marketing initiatives. | Deliver report and present results of Iraq campaign, including roll-up of data from social media, Wikipedia usage, and phone survey results. | Global Reach, Communications, Analytics | EOQ | In progress
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2.1 Build better interfaces for offline support for individuals who sometimes have internet access across all platforms, working hand in hand with existing solutions (both community and external). In particular:
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Deploy button for readers to download PDFs from the mobile website (already works using system dialog). | Reading Web will be executing this work. | Q2 | Postponed
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| 2.3 Better understand the existing ecosystem of solutions for offline support of Wikimedia content. Assess if it would be useful to partner with existing efforts (such as Kiwix or distributors) and move forward on those that have potential through product, grants, and/or partnerships. | Deliver a plan to distribute offline Wikipedia at a national level in 1-3 target countries. Plan should include product, partnerships, and grant strategies as appropriate. | Global Reach, Community Resources | EOQ | To do
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| Structured Data | 1.1 Store structured data within wiki pages, in particular on media file pages on Commons. |
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MediaWiki Platform, Wikidata, Ops (DBA), Technical Collaboration | EOQ | In progress
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| 1.2 Introduce Multi-Content Revisions (MCR) | MediaWiki Platform, Wikidata, Ops (DBA), Technical Collaboration | EOQ | In progress
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| 3.1 Commons contributors, partners contributing media, individual uploaders, and others interested in classifying structured data about media will enjoy a more seamless, predictable, and bug-free user experience. | Research and iterate on initial designs for editing structured metadata on commons | Readers PM + UX | EOQ | In progress
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| 4.2 Develop a better understanding of existing needs for Structured Commons (task T152248) | Report on initial user stories and research themes | Research, Community Engagement Programs | EOQ | To do
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