Thanks for that Erik - and yes, if there's a list, you do appear to be on
it!
As I am currently in the middle of packing my bags to move to Europe
tomorrow I will return to this topic next week when I officially start in
my new role with Europeana - from sunny summery Bologna rather than rainy
wintery Sydney.
Ciao!
-Liam
Peace, love & metadata
On 10 June 2014 15:32, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm on this list, somehow :) (generally the rule
seems to be, if it's
a list, I'm on it). Definitely, let's use the
mediawiki.org talk page
to discuss your expectations and what WMF can help with.
Erik
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This email (below) just got sen out by Erik
Moeller. Do you think it is
appropriate for us to contact him (and/or Fabrice - who is responsible
for
the 'multimedia' section) to ask where
the GWT might sit within the WMF
Tech
plans?
The document is specifically the WMF's own plans, not about grants, but
there are dependencies and aspects of what we want to do with GWT (on the
assumption that we successfully apply for a grant to fund round 2 of
development) that interrelate to the WMFs core priorities.
-Liam
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>, Wikimedia
Mailing
List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
We've got the first DRAFT (sorry for shouting, but can't hurt to
emphasize :)) of the annual goals for the engineering/product
department up on
mediawiki.org. We're now mid-point in the process,
and will finalize through June.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals
Note that at this point in the process, teams have flagged
inter-dependencies, but they've not necessarily been taken into
account across the board, i.e. team A may say "We depend on X from
team B" and team B may not have sufficiently accounted for X in its
goals. :P Identifying common themes, shared dependencies, and
counteracting silo tendencies is the main focus of the coming weeks.
We may also add whole new sections for cross-functional efforts not
currently reflected (e.g. UX standardization). Site performance will
likely get its own section as well.
My own focus will be on fleshing out the overall narrative, aligning
around organization-wide objectives, and helping to manage scope.
As far as quantitative targets are concerned, we will aim to set them
where we have solid baselines and some prior experience to work with
(a good example is Wikipedia Zero, where we now have lots of data to
build targets from). Otherwise, though, our goal should be to _obtain_
metrics that we want to track and build targets from. This, in itself,
is a goal that needs to be reflected, including expectations e.g. from
Analytics.
Like last year, these goals won't be set in stone. At least on a
quarterly basis, we'll update them to reflect what we're learning.
Some areas (e.g. scary new features like Flow) are more likely to be
significantly revised than others.
With this in mind: Please leave any comments/questions on the talk
page (not here). Collectively we're smarter than on our own, so we do
appreciate honest feedback:
- What are our blind spots? Obvious, really high priority things we're
not paying sufficient attention to?
- Where are we taking on too much? Which projects/goals make no sense
to you and require a stronger rationale, if they're to be undertaken at
all?
- Which projects are a Big Deal from a community perspective, or from
an architecture perspective, and need to be carefully coordinated?
These are all conversations we'll have in coming weeks, but public
feedback is very helpful and may trigger conversations that otherwise
wouldn't happen.
Please also help to carry this conversation into the wikis in coming
weeks. Again, this won't be the only opportunity to influence, and
I'll be thinking more about how the quarterly review process can also
account for community feedback.
Warmly,
Erik
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