Wikimedia Produkt

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During the merger, the Product and Technology teams went through a major reorganization.

Die Struktur der nachfolgenden Positionen scheint die aktuelle Teamstruktur zu widerspiegeln.

Teams update their documentation on different platforms (MediaWiki.wiki, Wikitech, Phabricator, etc.) at their own pace.

Team manager: Olja Dimitrijevic

Metrics Platform and Data Products: Fosters a trustworthy data culture that empowers communities to make data-informed decisions
- Product backlog: #data-engineering
- Current work: #data-engineering-kanban

The Wikimedia Foundation Product and Technology department builds, improves and maintains the infrastructure of the Wikimedia sites.

Teams

Data Science & Engineering

Machine Learning

Team manager: Chris Albon
Phabricator task boards:
- Product backlog: #scoring-platform-team-backlog

Data Platform

Data Engineering: Build out and maintain the self service components that make up the Shared Data Platform.

Search Platform and Data Platform SRE
- Search Platform : Responsible for maintaining and enhancing the various Search features and APIs for MediaWiki.
  - Team manager: Guillaume Lederrey
  - Product Manager: Mike Pham
  - Phabricator task boards:
    - Product backlog: #discovery-search
    - Current work: #discovery-search (Current work)
    - Wikidata Query Service (WDQS)
    - API:Suchen und Finden

Developer Experience

Quality and Test Engineering
- Team manager: Jean-René Branaa
Release Engineering
- Team manager: Tyler Cipriani
- Phabricator task boards:
  - Product backlog: #Release-Engineering-Team
  - Current work: #Release-Engineering-Team (Kanban)
Technical Documentation
- Team lead: Alex Paskulin
- Phabricator task board: #Tech-Docs-Team
Cloud Services (WMCS)
- Team manager: Joanna Borun
- Phabricator task boards:
  - Product backlog: #cloud-services-team

MediaWiki Engineering

Director of Product: Birgit Müller
Director of Engineering: Mat Nadrofsky

MediaWiki Platform
- Team manager: Larissa Gaulia
MediaWiki Interfaces
Content Transform : Content formats (such as wikitext and HTML) and transformations between them.
- Team manager: Sérgio Lopes
  - Code repositories

Research and Decision Science

Research
- Research lead: Leila Zia
- Phabricator task board: #Research
Design Research
Movement Insights
Product Analytics

Product


Team name	Focus	Point of contact	Current project(s)
Abstract Wikipedia	A new type of wiki where community-written software functions can transform language-independent Wikidata structured data into Wikipedia-like prose articles.	Denny Vrandečić	Wikifunctions
Core Experiences
Mitwirkende
Campaigns	Experience of Wikimedia campaigns.	Ilana Fried	Registration
Editing	Improving the core editing tools so that volunteers are able to successfully start and continue contributing to Wikimedia projects.	Peter Pelberg	Talk Pages Project
Editing		Peter Pelberg	Edit check
Growth	A set of features to encourage newcomers to make edits, and improve new editor retention.	Kirsten Stoller	Mentorship
			Positive reinforcement
			Add a link
			Add an image
			Community configuration
Moderator Tools	Content moderation tool needs.	Sam Walton	Automoderator
Consumers
Web	Reading experiences on the web for the Wikimedia projects.	Olga Vasileva	Accessibility for reading
Android	Experience for searching and reading Wikipedia content.	Jazmin Tanner	Communication improvements
Android	Experience for searching and reading Wikipedia content.		Quality contributions
iOS	Experience for searching and reading Wikipedia content.		Codebase
Other teams in this group
Trust and Safety Product	Technical work in support of the Trust and Safety team.	Madalina Ana	Safety Survey
		Madalina Ana	Incident Reporting System (IRS)
		Niharika Kohli	Temporary Accounts
Future Audiences	Exploring ways to expand beyond our existing audiences of readers and contributors	Maryana Pinchuk	See more on Meta-Wiki
Languages & Content Growth
Inuka	Experiences to Wikipedia readers in emerging markets, driving increased adoption and retention of Wikipedia in areas where internet use is rapidly growing.	Purity Waigi	Wikistories
			Wikipedia Preview
			Wikipedia for KaiOS
Language	Internationalization and localization tools for Wikimedia sites on web and mobile.	Pau Giner	Content and Section translation
Language		Pau Giner	Localization infrastructure
Community Tech	Community Wishlist Survey. They also build and improve curation and moderation tools for experienced users, supports bot operators, and more.	Jack Wheeler	Real Time Preview for Wikitext
Community Tech		Jack Wheeler	Generate Audio for IPA
Structured Data	Content on wikitext pages structured in a way that will be machine-recognizable and -relatable, to make reading, editing, and searching easier and more accessible.	Alexandra Ugolnikova	Image Suggestions
			Section Topics
			Search Improvements
Other teams
Design System Team	Build out the new Codex component library and improve front-end infrastructure in MediaWiki so that teams can build modern user interfaces more easily and consistently.	Chris Ciufo	Codex component library
			Modern user interfaces for all users
			CSS-only components
Chart task force	Creating a secure service to replace the Graph extension that will handle basic chart use		Chart

Design

The Design team focuses on user experience design and research, information architecture, human-computer interaction, visual design, and usability experience.

Program Management

The Program Management team supports the entire department. It facilitates OKR work and supports other complex cross-team or cross-departmental collaborations.

Site Reliability Engineering

Vice President: Mark Bergsma
- Phabricator task boards:
  - #Operations (anything happening within ops/SRE gets this tag)
  - Subteam boards
  - Product tags:
    - #prod-kubernetes (related to Streamlined Delivery program)
    - #pybal (product, not team/workflow)
  - Ticket-style workflow systems:
Collaboration Services
Data Center Operations
- #dcops
Data Persistence
Traffic
- #traffic
Infrastructure Foundations
Observability
Service Operations
- #serviceops
Security
- Director: Andy Cooper
- Phabricator task boards:
  - #Security (Many tasks on this board are hidden due to security policies)
  - #Security-Team
  - #Security-Team-Reviews

Leadership

See the Wikimedia Foundation/Product and Technology page on Meta-Wiki.

Important documents

On these pages you can read about our principles and best practices for our work:

Inclusive Product Development – documenting how we are guided by the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
(Historical) Wikimedia Product Guidance – documenting how we work with the Wikimedia communities.