Wikimedia Architecture Team/Legacy

The Wikimedia Architecture Team was responsible for facilitating the Wikimedia Architecture Committee (ArchCom). ArchCom strives to ensure the Wikimedia development community builds and deploy increasingly excellent software on the Wikimedia production cluster in a consensus-oriented manner. The group strives to offer timely advice on changes to Wikimedia software that may broadly impact software development on the Wikimedia cluster.

Voting members of the Wikimedia Architecture committee (ArchCom) dedicate most of their working day to other endeavors, and are not part of the Wikimedia Architecture Team for budget/management purposes. Rob Lanphier is assigned to providing ArchCom and the ArchCom-RFC process full-time facilitation support.

Previous quarter

FY 16-17 Q1 (Jul-Sep) goals

Objective	Key result	Dependencies	ETA	Status
Focused support for Wikimedia Security, assisting with hiring and implementing experiments such as assembling a security-focused working group (T123606) and creating a workable framework for security postmortems (T123753)	Scaling our security expertise	Emergent leadership and wide participation	EOQ	Done Much of the work was done by Darian Patrick, who stepped up after Chris Steipp's departure. I helped Wikimedia Security with bug triage meetings where I could.
Implement Fellowships program	Clear guidance from our most senior engineers, while giving them the autonomy to be effective for the movement	Editing	EOQ	N Postponed - I intend to regroup and discuss this with our future Wikimedia Foundation CTO

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Current quarter

FY 16-17 Q2 (Oct-Dec) goals

Objective	Key result	Dependencies	ETA	Status
WikiDev17 - Represent ArchCom on the WikiDev17 Planning Committee	WikiDev17 that improves on WikiDev16	Community Engineering, Product, Technology	EOQ	To do
Wikitext - Work with Parsing team on making the Wikitext spec clearer for wider interoperability, helping with complicated i18n issues	Ability to eventually deploy VisualEditor to all wikis, and having wider understanding of how Wikitext works	Parsing, Language	EOQ	To do

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Next quarter

FY 16-17 Q3 (Jan-Mar) goals

Objective	Key result	Dependencies	ETA	Status
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Related links

• Technical debt - the Wikimedia Architecture Team strives to help us manage our debt wisely
• /Goals archive - past goals