Reading/Roadmap

Notice: The roadmap below is provisional and subject to change based on feedback from our readers, our editor community, technical factors, and external events.

Platform focus and strategic pillars

Reading's platform focus is presently as follows:

• Web: Global South
• Android: A Community of Readers
• iOS: Improve the Encyclopedia Experience

While broader WMF strategy is developed, here's a mapping of the Reach (discussion) strategic options to Reading strategic pillars:

WMF Reach Strategy	Reading Strategic Pillar
Approach One: Increase frequency of use and number of users by adapting user experience to their needs (this may result in additional content formats, making more of Wikimedia content easier to find, increasing language coverage, etc.).	Improve the Encyclopedia Experience
Approach Two: Improve our understanding of how and why our users come to and stay on our projects so we can better serve their needs.	User Understanding
Approach Three: Understand how Wikimedia content is reused on external platforms and explore how to encourage users of such content to go to Wikimedia projects.	Infrastructure
Approach Four: Increase awareness and use of Wikimedia projects in two Global South countries.	Global South
Approach Five: Enable others to reuse our content and build their own products by improving and documenting our APIs (application programming interfaces).	Services
Approach Six: Improve Wikipedia mobile apps to increase use.	Improve the Encyclopedia Experience & Community of Readers

Roadmap

Strategic Pillar	Team	Q2 FY15-16	Q3 FY 15-16	Q4 FY 15-16	Q1
Improve the Encyclopedia Experience	Android	Wiktionary, link Preview, Nearby, more material design feed, ux overhaul,		Feed
	iOS	Feed, UX overhaul	Feed, UX overhaul	Notifications; Placeholder: Migrate successful Android features
	Web	read more	Read More to stable; Hovercards wrap up (review Link Preview again, too)	Lead section of article on mobile
Develop a community of Readers	Android		Synchronized saved pages list	TBD (watchlist notifications, interactions?)
	Web			TBD (watchlists/Gather?)
Global South	Android		Wikipedia Zero compliance
	iOS		Wikipedia Zero compliance
	Web	Speed Reading and Discovery	Speed on mobile beta + Wikipedia Zero compliance, language switching mobile web	Speed on mobile stable Global South feature (pending research)
Infrastructure Initiatives	Android	Services work (content)	Productionize service layer	Service Notifications infrastructure
	iOS		Core Data	Adoption of content service
	Web	Quick Survey,	Microservices	Mobile/desktop convergence? Reader/editor modes?
	Product	Quick Survey, tests, research global south	Tests	Tests

Departmental goals, Q2 FY2015-2016

Team	About	Objective	Action	Result	Phab
Infrastructure	Action API usage statistics	Feed data on daily Action API usage into some analytics backend (likely hadoop)	WMF wikis using new modular authn solution and additional customizations unblocked	Ready for Q3	https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102079
Infrastructure	AuthManager	Provide the core capability of configuring a single MediaWiki deployment with multiple authentication providers and components without custom coding (vs current monolithic AuthPlugin architecture)	WMF wikis using new modular authn solution and additional customizations unblocked	Ready for Q3	https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89459
Android	Content and media	Integrate more types of content and media into the app, to improve user engagement and retention.	Surface more audio and geolocation data in the article presentation.	Ready for Q3	https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115490
iOS	Design on iPad	Spec out iPad experience	Ipad and landscape mode are opportunities for a richer, more immersive experience.	Ready for Q3
Web	Hovercards	Reading Q2 Goals 2016	Present initial results of Hovercards test and see if concern remains To enable screen reader support	Uncover blockers or green light for moving forward
Web	Read more	A user reaching the end of an article can see suggestions for reading more articles so that they don't have to think about what else they should read.	Read more launched on desktop and mobile stable across all projects.	Ready for Q3

Departmental goals, Q1 FY2015-2016

Team	Objective	Key Result	Dependency	ETA	Status
Infrastructure	Improve MediaWiki security and extensibility by updating authentication framework	TBD	None	EOQ	DRAFT
Mobile Apps	Implementation of Content Service (Structured article data) Prototype new experiences based on Content Service Increase engagement via improved link preview Establish mobile apps strategy via experimentation Banner prompted installs Global South preload App Store features	TBD	Services Executive Management Fundraising Partnerships	EOQ	DRAFT
Web	Improve quality and development by improving development environment Improve engagement via page load decrease (mobile) Learn more about our users via quick polls	TBD	Release Engineering Performance Community Engagement	EOQ	DRAFT