Growth/Team/Skill Matrix

This is a way for the Growth team's engineers to self-assess their level of familiarity, expertise, and comfort across a range of areas which are important to the team.

Growth Team self-assessed skill matrix
Last updated: April 2022
Area Staff External participants e.g. volunteers, contractors
Gergő Kosta Mew Sergio Martin
Testing QUnit 3/5 stars 3/5 stars 2/5 stars 2/5 stars 1/5 stars
Selenium 3/5 stars 4/5 stars 2/5 stars 1/5 stars 1/5 stars
PHPUnit 4/5 stars 5/5 stars 2/5 stars 1/5 stars 3/5 stars
API testing 2/5 stars 4/5 stars 1/5 stars 0/5 stars 1/5 stars
Performance instrumentation 3/5 stars 4/5 stars 1/5 stars 0/5 stars -1/5 stars
Front-end Suggested edits module 4/5 stars 5/5 stars 5/5 stars 2/5 stars 3/5 stars
Help panel 4/5 stars 5/5 stars 5/5 stars 2/5 stars 3/5 stars
Mentor dashboard 3/5 stars 3/5 stars 1/5 stars 1/5 stars 5/5 stars
Vue 0/5 stars 2/5 stars 2/5 stars 2/5 stars 0/5 stars
Backend ElasticSearch integration with GrowthExperiments 5/5 stars 5/5 stars 2/5 stars 2/5 stars 2/5 stars
Structured tasks (link recommendation, image recommendation) 4/5 stars 5/5 stars 3/5 stars 2/5 stars 2/5 stars
Special:Homepage and newcomer task code 4/5 stars 5/5 stars 3/5 stars 2/5 stars 4/5 stars
Mentorship code 4/5 stars 2/5 stars 0/5 stars 1/5 stars 5/5 stars
Performance, caching, and scaling 5/5 stars 4/5 stars 1/5 stars 1/5 stars 4/5 stars
Link recommendation service Deployments 3/5 stars 5/5 stars 0/5 stars 0/5 stars 1/5 stars
Changes to research/mwaddlink application 4/5 stars 5/5 stars 0/5 stars 0/5 stars 0/5 stars
Ways of working Local development environment 5/5 stars 5/5 stars 3/5 stars 3/5 stars 5/5 stars
Using gerrit / CI 5/5 stars 5/5 stars 3/5 stars 3/5 stars 5/5 stars
Using phabricator 5/5 stars 5/5 stars 3/5 stars 3/5 stars 5/5 stars
Wikimedia Production Production monitoring 4/5 stars 4/5 stars 1/5 stars 1/5 stars 4/5 stars
Deploying patches to production during backport 5/5 stars 4/5 stars 2/5 stars 2/5 stars 5/5 stars
Interacting on-wiki with community 5/5 stars 3/5 stars 0/5 stars 0/5 stars 5/5 stars
Making production configuration patches 5/5 stars 5/5 stars 1/5 stars 2/5 stars 5/5 stars
EventLogging - creating new and updating existing schemas 5/5 stars 5/5 stars 3/5 stars 2/5 stars 3/5 stars


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  •       — No experience
  •       — Minimal: New to you, or rudimentary comprehension
  •       — Basic: Developing comprehension, gaining applied experience (not necessarily on Wikimedia projects)
  •       — Intermediate: Deepening comprehension, applied experience on 1+ Wikimedia projects
  •       — Advanced: Deep comprehension & applied experience within Wikimedia context; have not provided training to others
  •       — Expert: Deep comprehension & applied experience within Wikimedia context; have provided training to others