MediaWiki Product Insights

This page serves as a landing page for product research conducted to inform a strategic direction for MediaWiki and to explore questions around platform evolution, stewardship and developer experiences.

The related objectives in the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual plan are Knowledge Platform WE3 (fiscal year 23/24), WE5 and WE6 (fiscal year 24/25).

We'll be sharing about this work in monthly emails and presentations throughout the year.

Goals for 2024-2025

Future of MediaWiki ( August 2024) - recording

Knowledge Platform I: Evolve the MediaWiki platform and its interfaces to better meet Wikipedia's core needs (Wiki Experiences 5)

Improve sustainability of the MediaWiki platform (5.1)
Simplify and streamline feature development (5.2)
Support current and future needs of encyclopedic content (5.3)
Improve process for release and synchronize with php upgrades (5.4)

Knowledge Platform II: Technical staff and volunteer developers have the tools they need to effectively support the Wikimedia projects (Wiki Experiences 6)

Enable efficient decision making on developer workflows and services (6.1)
Better serve developers’ testing needs (6.2)
Improve sustainability of Toolforge ecosystem (6.3)

Goals for 2023-2024

MediaWiki product - direction and path to sustainability - Notes

Many thanks to the contributors and reviewers in MediaWiki core!

Knowledge Platform: Increase collaboration and efficiency among software developers by improving the development process for MediaWiki (Wiki Experiences 3)

A strategy for MediaWiki - by June 30th, 2024 (WE3)
A 20% increase of authors to selected MediaWiki repositories deployed in Wikimedia production - by June 30th, 2024 (WE3.2)
Investing in developer experiences and reduce fragmentation of developer workflows (WE 3.1)
Explore and resolve a set of questions related to MediaWiki product strategy, stewardship, and collaboration (WE 3.3)