MediaWiki

Readers

The Readers department of Wikimedia Product builds exceptional learning and reading experiences for the sum of all knowledge, from desktop and mobile web to apps and APIs. The team's work focuses on understanding user needs, how readers interact with Wikimedia content, and finding ways to improve and speed up experiences. We build beautiful, functional, and fast user interfaces for all locations, devices and languages.

Readers
We build exceptional learning and reading experiences for the sum of all knowledge
Group: Wikimedia Product
Team members: In teams:
Reading Design
Rita Ho, Carolyn Li-Madeo
Apps
Toni Sevener, Dmitry Brant, Sharvani Haran, Cooltey Feng, Joe Walsh
Web
Jon Robson, Sam Smith, Stephen Niedzielski, Nicholas Ray, Jan Drewniak
Quality Assurance
Anthony Borba
Reading Infrastructure
Gergő Tisza, Michael Holloway, Bernd Sitzmann, Mateus Batista Santos, James Forrester
Reading Product Management
Jon Katz, Josh Minor, Olga Vasileva, Chelsy Xie, Mikhail Popov, Joaquin Hernandez
Team members from other departments
Chris Koerner, Johan Jönsson (Community Relations)
Lead: Toby Negrin (overall)
Adam Baso (Reading Engineering)
Jon Katz (Reading Product Management)

Strategy

Outcome of the 2015 Reading Strategy: Reading/Strategy/2016-2017 plan

(detail about strategic process outlined below)

Projects

Apps

Web

Reading Infrastructure

Evaluative Design Research

New Readers

Structured data

Software component responsibilities

Roles and responsibilities

Communications

Mailing lists

  • Mobile-specific: Mobile-l
  • General MediaWiki and Wikimedia development discussions: Wikitech-l
  • We highly depend on the MediaWiki action API, so these lists are interesting, too (for API-related things):

IRC channels

  • General reading: #wikimedia-mobile connect
  • General MediaWiki development: #wikimedia-dev connect
  • #wikimedia-tech connect

Showcases

Strategy and planning

Quarterly reviews/checkins

Quarterly reviews (2015-2016), including:

Quarterly check-ins (2016-)

Updates

Some past projects are now covered in separate updates:

Q&A with Toby Negrin, Senior Director of Reading team

Additional documents
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