Wikimedia Product/2017-18 Q4 Goals

Wikimedia Audiences Goals, FY2017–18, Q4 (April-June)

Purpose of this document: Goals for the Wikimedia Audiences department for the third quarter of fiscal year 2017–18 (January–March 2018). The goal setting process owner in each section is the person responsible for coordinating completion of the section, in partnership with the team and relevant stakeholders.

Goals for the Technology department are available on their own page.

Status fields can use the following templates: In progress, To do, Postponed, Done or Partially done

ETA fields may use the initialism EOQ (End of Quarter).

Contributors

Goal setting process owner: Danny Horn

Team	Objective	Key result	Dependency	ETA	Status
Editing	Goal 3.1: Improve and consolidate our unified editing platform so that it's great on all devices	Identify aspects of the 2017 wikitext editor that may cause incompatibility with gadgets. Update 2017 wikitext editor to ensure gadget compatibility. Publish advice on how gadget owners can update their gadgets to ensure compatibility. Get 2017 wikitext editor to a deployment-ready state.	Community Liaisons	EOQ	To do
Collaboration	1) Make Kartographer and associated maps technology easier to maintain; 2) accomplish the two “main wishes” named in the Community Wishlist proposal for Kartographer Improvements: Map internationalization, and the addition of zoom level 19.	Kartographer will display maps in the language of the relevant wiki instead of showing labels only in the language of the territory mapped (as per “main wish” T112948).	Community liaisons Members of the former Maps team	EOQ	In progress
Language	Goal 3.1: Improve and consolidate our unified editing platform so that it's great on all devices	Content Translation new version (CX2) can be used to create translations without major regressions compared to the previous version. CX2 is made available to few advanced editors as a pilot test to get feedback.	Editing	EOQ	In progress
Community Tech: Wishlist	Improve very active contributors' productivity	Rollout support for: TemplateWizard (wish #5) on all wikis Allow 'thanks' for log entries (wish #8) on all wikis Commons deletion notification bot (wish #10) on all wikis that want it		EOQ	In progress
		Graduate CodeMirror syntax highlighting from beta to default on LTR language wikis.		April 2018	In progress
		Begin development on “Who Wrote That?” revision search tool (wish #4)	Fabian Floeck, author of WhoColor	EOQ	To do
	Represent both large and small communities	Complete all new feature development on Grant Metrics	Community Resources	EOQ	In progress
	Represent both large and small communities	Based on discussions (on-wiki and at WMCON) with program and event organizers, prioritize feature alterations and/or enhancements to the Programs and Events Dashboard (wish #3)	Community Programs	EOQ	In progress
Community Tech: Anti-Harassment Tools	Increase the confidence of our admins for resolving disputes	Allow admins to apply appropriate remedies in cases of harassment by releasing per-article, per-namespace, per-category, and file upload blocks.		EOQ	In progress
	Reports of harassment are higher quality while less burdensome on the reporter	Continue research and community consultation on English Wikipedia for requirements and direction of the reporting system, for prototyping in Q4 and development in FY18-19.	SuSa	EOQ	In progress
		Start development on simple prototypes of potential changes to the reporting system to use for demonstrations on-wiki and at Wikimania.		EOQ	N Not done
	Known bad actors are kept off wikis where they are causing disruption	Release cookie blocking for anonymous users to all Wikimedia wikis	Legal	EOQ	Done
Parsing	Goal 3.6: Support work towards unifying MediaWiki's parser implementations, in liaison with Technology's MediaWiki team	Continue rolling out RemexHTML on additional wikis + identify wikis that need additional support to meet the mid-2018 deadline for replacing Tidy. We hope to have removed Tidy on the Wikimedia cluster by the end of this quarter Finish implementation of the Parsoid API endpoint to render Parsoid HTML in the requested language variant	MediaWiki Platform, Services	EOQ	In progress
Parsing	Goal 3.1: Improve and consolidate our unified editing platform so that it's great on all devices	Address blockers to supporting section editing in Visual Editor	N/A	EOQ	To do
Growth	Identify first project for new editor retention for 2018Q1	Wiki page with background research, prospective KPIs, and ongoing conversation with community members	N/A	EOQ	In progress
	Improved efficiency for the Articles for Creation (AfC) process	Discrete improvement or tool (TBD) that increases the rate at which new articles are published to the article namespace from drafts. Specific metric TBD.	N/A	Mid-May	In progress
	Framework for pursuing the "better use of data" goal in FY 2018-2019	Written accounting of existing data sources, summary of PM measurement needs, controlled experiment guidelines	N/A	End-May	In progress

Design

Goal setting process owner: Nirzar Pangarkar and Margeigh Novotny

Team	Objective	Key result	Dependency	ETA	Status
Audiences Design	Improve Iconography for web products	- Update iconography in products based on OOUI including VE, CX - Update iconography in mobile web		Mid-May	In progress
	Wikimedia Design Style Guide 1.1	- Update the style guide based on the feedback of 1.0 release		Mid-June	In progress
	OOUI Adoption	- Adopt one special page to use OOUI framework		End June	In progress
Design Strategy	Identify mobile-appropriate editing opportunities; document differences in editing experience between mature, developing and new Wiki's	- Deliver inventory of critical editing taskflows for five Wikis	Czech, Korean and Hindi participation	Early June	In progress
Design Strategy	Use publicly available data to ascertain patterns of use (e.g. proportions of users on desktop vs. mobile, by Wiki; topical preferences, by Wiki; number of edits/number of edits by new contributors, etc.)	- Audience segmentation information		July 1	In progress

Programs

Goal setting process owner: Anne Gomez

Team	Objective	Key result	Dependency	ETA	Status
Structured Data on Commons	1.1 Assist with deploying MultiContent Revisions on Commons	T174022 Implement multi-content revisions T174023 Implement MCR storage layer T174045 DB schema migration for MCR T174044 Deploy MCR storage layer T174043 Deploy Multi-Content Revisions	MediaWiki Platform, WMDE	Q4	In progress
	2.1 Integrate structured file captions into search	Update search backend for file captions Inform “full-search” specifications and begin prototyping	Search Platform, Multimedia, WMDE, MediaWiki Platform	Q4	In progress
	3.1 Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)	Development, testing, and evaluation of multilingual file captions on File pages and Upload Wizard advance to a level that makes deployment to beta environments possible by end of June (in preparation for a July launch target) Multilingual file captions are indexed for Search and factor into Search Results.	Multimedia, TechOps, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research	Q4	In progress
	4.1 GLAMs want to use Commons	List of ideas for integrating SDC into existing affiliate programming around Commons generated in WMCon program planning workshop. 2-3 potential pilot projects for GLAM use of SDC are identified following WMCON, and are in process of being supported by end Q4. Support conversations around technical requirements for tool developers at Hackathon.	Community Programs	Q4	In progress
	4.2 Wikimedia Technology/Goals/2017-18 Q4#Segment 4: Programs	Wikimedia Technology/Goals/2017-18 Q4#Segment 4: Programs	Research	Q4	In progress
	5.1 The Wikimedia communities, GLAM partners, and developers are fully on board with the Structured Data project. They participate in the different stages of planning and development, and adopt the new features.	Facilitating conversations about designs and prototypes Facilitating multiple rounds of community discussion on structured licenses	Technical Collaboration, Legal	Q4	In progress
New Readers	1.1 Coordinated marketing efforts (campaigns) with launch events in target countries/markets that educate potential readers on what Wikipedia is and the value that it offers, developed in partnership with local networks of advocates. The New Readers team pilots awareness-building efforts that consult, collaborate, and train community members on how to continue strategic marketing initiatives.	[Mexico] Hire agency and develop community marketing committee for video release in Q4/Q1. [Iraq & Nigeria] Deliver final reports of earlier campaigns. [India] Videos launch and earn more than 3 million total viewership. Deliver wrap-up report of India campaign. (deferred from Q3)	Communications (lead), Programs, Global Reach, WMMX, Hindi Marketing Committee	EOQ	In progress
	2.1 Build better interfaces for offline support for individuals who sometimes have internet access across all platforms, working hand in hand with existing solutions (both community and external). In particular: extend functionality in Android app build initial offline functionality for the mobile web	[Nigeria] Execute product marketing campaign for offline functionality in the Android app, particularly Reading Lists, with intent to understand if offline features drive adoption/retention in data-constrained markets	Communications & Audiences (co-lead), Partnerships	EOQ	Not yet started
	2.3. Better understand the existing ecosystem of solutions for offline support of Wikimedia content. Assess if it would be useful to partner with existing efforts (such as Kiwix or distributors) and move forward on those that have potential through product, grants, and/or partnerships.	Sign term sheet and begin deployment of pilot program to support offline medical Wikipedia in Nigeria.	Partnerships (lead), Internet in a Box, Kiwix, James Heilman, The Africa Center	April 2018	In progress

Readers

Goal setting process owner: Jon Katz

Team	Objective	Key result	Dependency	ETA	Status
iOS	Goal 2, Outcome 2: Iterate and improve new app features that drive reuse and learning by high-affinity readers	Ship a customizable Explore feed. Improved engagement with the Explore screen, increase in medium term user retention.	None	Q4	In progress
Android	Goal 2, Outcome 2: Iterate and improve new app features that drive reuse and learning by high-affinity readers	Add multi-lingual support, including customisable languages in the Explore feed and multi-lingual search results. KPIs include improved engagement with the Explore feed, leading to an increase in user retention.	None	Q4	In progress
Web	Outcome 1, Objective 1: Enable readers to gauge the quality and reliability of an article prior to reading	Change visual styling of page issues on the mobile website to improve awareness of particular issues within an article	Community Liaisons	Q4	In Progress
Web	Outcome 1, Objective 4: Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption	Deploy new rendering service and handoff to Readers Infrastructure	Community Liaisons, TechOps, Release Engineering, Readers Infrastructure	Q4	In Progress
Multimedia	Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)	Development, testing, and evaluation of multilingual file captions on File pages and Upload Wizard advance to a level that makes deployment to beta environments possible by end of June (in preparation for a July launch target) Multilingual file captions are indexed for Search and factor into Search Results.	TechOps, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research	Q4	In Progress
Infrastructure	Increase code sharing of client apps by coalescing and moving more logic to the server.	Deliver the HTML API for the PCS that can be adopted by both the iOS and Android apps. [1]	Parsing, Services	Q4	In Progress