Wikimedia Engineering/2014-15 Goals/Q2
Objective | Beneficiary[1]→Measure of success for Q2[2] | Project Lead[3] | Dependencies | ETA | Status |
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Understand new mobile web micro-contributions and mobile app readership |
Conservative measures of success: Readers→ [Wikipedia App] Improved searching/quick content browsing.
Success measured by usability testing and other qualitative user research. New/Casual Editors→ [Mobile Web] Understand what factors produce better engagement and quality for WikiGrok, the first mobile micro-contribution feature, before testing in production.
Stretch measures of success:
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Product, UX, Engineering, Analytics |
End of Q2. Longer-term plan (Q3-4) here. |
Done Stretch goals mostly missed, exception: WikiGrok was tested in stable with logged in users. | |
Make editing faster (for Q2: focus on instrumentation) |
Conservative measures of success: Developers→Instrumented edit funnels on desktop/mobile/app, wikitext/VE Stretch measures of success: Editors→# 50th/99th percentile load/save perf. Editors→% activation/retention |
Engineering, Analytics, Operations |
Likely 'til end of Q3 |
Partially done
| |
Conservative measures of success: (by end-Q2) Developers→Elimination of dependencies on Mantle templates (MediaWiki core feature) and JS Object utilities (OOjs) Developers→Integration of OOjs UI in JS/PHP into MediaWiki core, with at least one key interface converted as an example Developers→Improved documentation of OOjs UI with examples, tutorials and reference information Stretch measures of success: (by end-Q2) Developers→Several key MediaWiki core interfaces converted as examples Developers→Use OOUI components in the creation with Design of a Human Interface Guidelines document |
Engineering, UX, Product |
Likely 'til end of Q3 |
Done Stretch goals missed, though the OOjs UI based living style guide is in active development. | ||
Developers→Move logging to composer managed library Developers→Extract one library from existing MediaWiki codebase, publish as a stand alone library and re-import to MediaWiki via Composer Developers→Complete documentation and implementation of Composer managed libraries for use on WMF cluster RFC Developers→Create list of future candidates for library extraction projects Developers→ |
Engineering |
End of Q2 |
Done | ||
Developers→The majority of WMF developer teams and sprints have moved to Phabricator |
Engineering, Operations |
End of Q2 |
Done |
Executive Focus Areas
edit- Product & Strategy:
- Document product development methodology and process, including criteria for deployment/rollout of functionality, policy for site-wide technical changes, and inclusion of community requirements and needs
- Support first phase of strategy development process: community consultation, finalization of framework
Notes
edit- ↑ Should refer to one of the Personæ or user categories.
- ↑ Measures of success to be fleshed out by project leads
- ↑ New role, discussion ongoing; see Wikimedia Engineering/Project Lead role