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,
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
CDP1: Privacy, Security, and Data Management
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.
CDP2: Platform Evolution
Segment 7 - Core Platform
Goal Owner: Corey Floyd (WMF)
Q1 Goals are
Postponed to Q2
- Detailed status here.
Segment 8 - Core Platform (WMDE)
Goal Owner: Corey Floyd (WMF)
Q1 Goals are
Done
- Detailed status here.
CDP3: Knowledge Integrity
Segment 1 - Research
Goal Owner: Dario Taraborelli
Q1 Goals are
Done
- Detailed status here.
CDP4: Structured data
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 |
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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). |
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Research | Community programs, Multimedia | C | End of August 2018 | ![]() |