Wikimedia Product
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The Wikimedia Foundation Product and Technology department builds, improves and maintains the infrastructure of the Wikimedia sites.
Teams
Data Science & Engineering
- Team manager: Chris Albon
- Phabricator task boards:
- Product backlog: #scoring-platform-team-backlog
Data Platform
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
- 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:Search and discovery
- Search Platform : Responsible for maintaining and enhancing the various Search features and APIs for MediaWiki.
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: Nicholas Skaggs
- Phabricator task boards:
- Product backlog: #cloud-services-team
- Current work: #cloud-services-team (Kanban)
- 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
Research and Decision Science
- 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 | |||
Contributors | |||
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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.
- 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:
- Phabricator task boards:
- Collaboration Services
- Data Center Operations
- Data Persistence
- Traffic
- Infrastructure Foundations
- Observability
- Service Operations
- 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.