Wikimedia Technology/Goals/2018-19 Q1

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Wikimedia Technology Goals, FY2018–19, Q1 (July - September)

Q2

Introduction

The Technology Department has a number of annual goals in support of the Wikimedia Foundation's Annual Plan; this work is detailed in the Annual Plan. Our remaining work falls into four broad areas—foundational, sustaining, supporting our technical community, and supporting the overall community health.

All Technology programs fall under the primary goal of Knowledge as a Service/Foundational Strength - evolve our systems and structures, except for TEC5: Scoring Platform and TEC9: Address Knowledge Gaps which fall under the primary goal of Knowledge Equity - grow new contributors and content.

Purpose of this document

Goals for the Wikimedia Technology department, for the first quarter of fiscal year 2018–19 (July - September 2018). The goal owner in each section is the person responsible for coordinating completion of the section, in partnership with the team(s) and relevant stakeholders.

Goals for the Audiences department are available on their own page

Legend

ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) fields may use the acronym EOQ (End of Quarter) or EOY (End of Year).

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

Technology Departmental programs

TEC1: Reliability, Performance, and Maintenance

Goal Owners: Mark Bergsma; Ian Marlier; Nuria Ruiz; Bryan Davis

Q1 Goals are Partially done

Detailed status here.

TEC2: Modern Event Platform

Goal Owner: Nuria Ruiz

Q1 Goals are  Done

Detailed status here.

TEC3: Deployment Pipeline

Goal Owner: Greg Grossmeier

Q1 Goals are  Done

Detailed status here.

TEC4: PHP7 Migration

Goal Owners: Mark Bergsma and Ian Marlier

Q1 Goals are Partially done

Detailed status here.

TEC5: Scoring Platform

Goal Owner: Aaron Halfaker

Q1 Goals are Partially done

Detailed status here.

TEC6 Address Infrastructure Gaps

Goal Owner: Mark Bergsma

Q1 Goals are Partially done

Detailed status here.

TEC7: Environmental Sustainability

Goal Owner: Erika Bjune

Q1 Goals are To do

Detailed status here.

TEC8: Search Platform

Goal Owner: Erika Bjune

Q1 Goals are Partially done

Detailed status here.

TEC9: Address Knowledge Gaps

Goal Owner: Leila Zia

Q1 Goals are Partially done

Detailed status here.

TEC10: Build Technical Community

Goal Owner: Bryan Davis

Q1 Goals are Partially done

Detailed status here.

TEC11: Support Fundraising Activities

Goal Owner: Erika Bjune

Q1 Goals are  Done

Detailed status here.

TEC12: Developer Productivity

Goal Owner: Greg Grossmeier

Q1 Goals are Partially done

Detailed status here.

TEC13: Code Health

Goal Owner: Greg Grossmeier

Q1 Goals are Partially done

Detailed status here.

TEC14: Smart Tools for Better Data

Goal Owner: Nuria Ruiz

Q1 Goals are Partially done

Detailed status here.

Cross-departmental programs

Segment 2 - Security

Goal Owner: John Bennett

Q1 Goals are Partially done

Detailed status here.

Segment 3 - Analytics

Goal Owner: NRuiz (WMF)

Q1 Goals are To do in Q2

Detailed status here.

Segment 7 - Core Platform

Goal Owner: Corey Floyd (WMF)

Q1 Goals are N Postponed to Q2

Detailed status here.

Segment 8 - Core Platform (WMDE)

Goal Owner: Corey Floyd (WMF)

Q1 Goals are  Done

Detailed status here.

Segment 1 - Research

Goal Owner: Dario Taraborelli

Q1 Goals are  Done

Detailed status here.

Segment 0 - Core Platform

Goal Owner: Corey Floyd (WMF)

Q1 Goals are Partially done

Detailed status here.

Segment 2 - Search Platform

Goal Owner: Erika Bjune

Q1 Goals are Partially done

Detailed status here.

FY17-18 Segment 4 - Programs

Goal owner: Jonathan Morgan

Annual plan outcome	Annual plan objective(s)	Quarterly Work (or Goal)	Primary Team(s)	Dependencies	Tech Goal	ETA	Status
Outcome 2: Develop a better understanding of existing needs for Structured Commons	Objective 2: Write case studies and documentation for Commons and Wikidata projects that allow project development among Wikimedia Communities and allow us to identify gaps in existing tools (task T171252).	Publish Commons reuser research report (task T190228) (continued from FY17-18, Q4)	Research	Community programs, Multimedia	C	End of August 2018	Done