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, with the exception of 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 third quarter of fiscal year 2018–19 (January - March 2019). 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,
Stalled,
Partially done, or
Done
Technology Departmental programs
TEC1: Reliability, Performance, and Maintenance
- Goal Owners: Mark Bergsma; Kate Chapman; Nuria Ruiz; Bryan Davis
- Detailed status here.
TEC2: Modern Event Platform
- Goal Owner: Nuria Ruiz
- Detailed status here.
TEC3: Deployment Pipeline
- Goal Owner: Greg Grossmeier
- Detailed status here.
TEC4: PHP7 Migration
- Goal Owners: Mark Bergsma and Kate Chapman
- Detailed status here.
TEC5: Scoring Platform
- Goal Owner: Aaron Halfaker
- Detailed status here.
TEC6 Address Infrastructure Gaps
- Goal Owner: Mark Bergsma
- Detailed status here.
TEC7: Environmental Sustainability
- Goal Owner: Joel Aufrecht
- Detailed status here.
TEC8: Search Platform
- Goal Owner: Nuria Ruiz
- Detailed status here.
TEC9: Address Knowledge Gaps
- Goal Owner: Leila Zia
- Detailed status here.
TEC10: Build Technical Community
- Goal Owner: Bryan Davis
- Detailed status here.
TEC11: Support Fundraising Activities
- Goal Owner: Erika Bjune
- Detailed status here.
TEC12: Developer Productivity
- Goal Owner: Greg Grossmeier
- Detailed status here.
TEC13: Code Health
- Goal Owner: Greg Grossmeier
- Detailed status here.
TEC14: Smart Tools for Better Data
- Goal Owner: Nuria Ruiz
- Detailed status here.
Cross-departmental programs
CDP1: Privacy, Security, and Data Management
Segment 2 - Security
- Goal Owner: John Bennett
- Detailed status here.
Segment 3 - Analytics
- Goal Owner: NRuiz (WMF)
- Detailed status here.
CDP2: Platform Evolution
Segment 7 - Core Platform
- Goal Owner: Corey Floyd (WMF)
- Detailed status here.
CDP3: Knowledge Integrity
Segment 1 - Research
- Goal Owner: Leila Zia
- Detailed status here.
CDP4: Structured data
Segment 2 - Search Platform
- Goal Owner: NRuiz (WMF)
- Detailed status here.