Wikimedia Product/2019-20 Q1 Goals
Purpose of this document: Goals for the Wikimedia Products department for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2019-20 (July - September 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
[edit]Goal setting process owner: Danny Horn
| Program | Annual Plan Outcome | Annual Plan Output | Team | Quarterly Goal | Dependency |
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| Community Wishlist | TBD | Wishlist - Complete wishes from the 2017 wishlist survey and conduct the next wishlist survey. Very active contributors will be more productive and more satisfied with their on-wiki activities. | Community Tech | Feature development on Who wrote that? Tool |
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| Page Curation process improvements | |||||
| Work on require email address to reset password project | |||||
| Allow named references in VisualEditor | Editing Team | ||||
| Community Health | TBD | TBD | Anti-Harassment Tools | Investigate and work on improvements to interaction Timeline |
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| Begin exploration into IP masking project | Core Platform | ||||
| Work on Incident Reporting System project | |||||
| New Content | Local Language content | Content translation | Language | Increase the number of translators in selected small wikis | community relations, Design Research, Research |
| Improve translate extension | Reduce the error rate when managing translation projects | ||||
| Progressive onboarding | Human-to-human help | Growth | Newcomer homepage: increase activity through a task recommendations module | Legal, Security, Analytics | |
| Newcomer homepage: Increase feature discovery rate by 100% | Legal, Security | ||||
| Help panel: increase usefulness through improvements to affordance, search, and UX flow | Analytics Engineering, Legal, Security, Search Platform |
Design
[edit]Goal setting process owner: Nirzar Pangarkar and Margeigh Novotny
| Program | Annual Plan Outcome | Annual Plan Output | Team | Quarterly Goal | Dependency |
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Readers
[edit]Goal setting process owner: Jon Katz
| Program | Annual Plan Outcome | Annual Plan Output | Team | Quarterly Goal | Dependency |
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| TBD | TBD | TBD | Reading web | Research potential updates to the desktop experience and consult with the wider community on areas of improvement | Mobile contributing |
| New Content | Mobile Contributing | Mobile web contributing | Deploy advanced mobile contributions to all projects | ||
| iOS contributing | iOs | Improved page history views and tools | |||
| Android contributing | Android | Release Suggested Edits v2: add/translate Commons image captions + design improvements | |||
| Improved "My Contributions" screen will encourage Suggested Edits feature usage | |||||
| Add additional Echo notifications (reverts, user talk) to drive additional contributions and allow app users to participate in community | |||||
| Platform Evolution | Engineers have a clear understanding of our technology stack and the plan to better scale, maintain and test it | Ongoing Parser Unification | Reading Infrastructure | Finish porting of Parsoid to PHP | Core Platform |
| Structured Data on Commons | Add/edit/upload structured data on Commons | TBD | Provide middleware for gathering and intermediary storage of AI-generated metadata | SRE, RelEng, Legal |