Wikimedia Technology
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The current version of this page is temporary and reflects the 2024 merger of the Product and Technology teams. The headings below may not reflect the current team structure, as teams update documentation across platforms—such as MediaWiki wiki, Wikitech, and Phabricator—at varying speeds. |
The Wikimedia Foundation Product and Technology department builds, improves and maintains the infrastructure of the Wikimedia sites.
Teams
Machine Learning
- Team manager: Chris Albon
- Phabricator task boards:
- Product backlog: #scoring-platform-team-backlog
Data Platform
Team manager:
- 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
- Director of Developer Experience: Levi Ferreira
- Director of Product: Birgit Müller
- Cloud Services (WMCS)
- Team manager: Joanna Borun
- Phabricator task boards:
- Product backlog: #cloud-services-team
- Wikimedia Quality Services
- Team manager: Sean Long
- Phabricator task board: #quality-and-test-engineering-team
- Release Engineering
- Team manager: Tyler Cipriani
- Phabricator task boards:
- Product backlog: #Release-Engineering-Team
- Technical Documentation
- Team manager: Sean Long
- Phabricator task board: #Tech-Docs-Team
- Wikimedia Test Platform
- Team manager: Armen Markossyan
- Phabricator task board: #quality-and-test-engineering-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
Research and Decision Science
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 | |||
| Connection | Experience of event organizers, and editors collaborating on WikiProjects, meetups, and backlog drives. | 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 | |||
| Readers | Reading experiences on the web for the Wikimedia projects. | Olga Vasileva | |
| 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 | |||
| Product Safety and Integrity | Focused on the security and safety of editors, readers, users with extended rights, and everyone who makes the wikis work. | 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 | |||
| Language and Product Localization | Internationalization and localization tools for Wikimedia sites on web and mobile. | Pau Giner | Content and Section translation |
| Localization infrastructure | |||
| Community Tech | Community Wishlist. They also build and improve curation and moderation tools for experienced users, supports bot operators, and more. | Jack Wheeler | |
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:
- Phabricator task boards:
- Collaboration Services
- Data Center Operations
- Data Persistence
- Traffic
- Infrastructure Foundations
- Observability
- Service Operations
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.