Hello Sam, thank you for the kind words.
And also thank you to Chris and Martin for yours.
With regards to the “optimizations” mentioned in the product update: usage
change over the course of 2022 wasn’t really the motivating factor here
(given it’s only been one year so we’re fully expecting fluctuations), It’s
more about trying to increase the system’s efficiency and limit areas where
things could break at scale - in preparation for future demand. There has
been some increase in costs over the 2022 calendar year, as shown in the
finance report’s bar-graph and associated paragraph, but that was primarily
due to staffing changes, not hosting costs.
Our initial system architecture focused heavily on Wikipedia database dumps
and now we’re focusing on expanding the “realtime” data feeds. We decided
to rebuild the architecture to look more like an event-based system, to
work alongside exported-data products, instead of adding on more services
on top of the dump generation.
As mentioned in the product update, for those interested in this topic
there are quarterly summaries of the technical work on the project’s
MediaWiki page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise#Updates
But, if you’d like to talk through the implementation details and the
thinking behind it, then the best format is a real-time conversation. I
encourage you to come to the “office hours” public meeting this Friday -
etails at the top of the project page on Meta. Even if you can’t make it to
that, we’ll make sure to discuss the product update and I’ll be uploading
the recording afterwards to Commons, with a timecoded summary of the
conversation.
Sincerely,
Liam
On Tue, 7 Feb 2023 at 23:29, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Chris - My thoughts exactly. A satisfying report:
useful, informative,
densely linked.
TLDR: revenue at 2% of the WMF total; projected to be cashflow positive
this year.
9 FTEs, up-to-date landing page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise>, even headshot
photos for a majority of the team.
(And a subtle reminder that we should consider doing something awesome
with a community-led merch store!)
Liam - for the product update, I'm curious how hosting costs + usage have
changed over the year (and implications for what we learn to optimize)
SJ
On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 10:16 AM Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Thanks Liam! That looks admirably clear and very
thorough - would be
great to see this level of detail and transparency in other aspects of the
WMF's work
Chris/ The Land
On Tue, 7 Feb 2023, 14:35 Liam Wyatt, <lwyatt(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Dear all,
Following the initial announcement and project launch in 2021, and press
release about first customers in 2022, the Wikimedia Enterprise team
has today published the *first financial report* and a summary of a
forthcoming *product update*.
This has been published today on the Diff blog, here:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/02/07/wikimedia-enterprise-financial-report…
[also available in German
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/de/2023/02/07/wikimedia-enterprise-finanzbericht-und-produktupdates/>
]
One of the principles
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise/Principles> of
the Wikimedia Enterprise project has been “the publication of overall
revenue and expenses, differentiated from those of the Wikimedia Foundation
in general, at least annually”. We are therefore proud to present the
inaugural edition of the Wikimedia Enterprise financial report – covering
the calendar-year 2022, its first year of operations.
The update also includes a description of some of the API features that
have been under development. While the primary use-case is companies which
consistently require very high-speed updates of very large amounts of
Wikimedia content, it is important to note that there are several
free-access methods.
If you have written questions or comments about the update, please share
them on the project’s talkpage
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Enterprise> on Meta. As
described in the blogpost, we consider this report covering the 2022
calendar year to be a “beta” version. We are actively seeking feedback
about how its structure, content, and explanations can be improved for the
next edition in late 2023, which will cover the 2022-23 fiscal year.
If you prefer real-time conversation: A public meeting will be hosted
by the Enterprise team this Friday, February 10 @1900 UTC to discuss this
announcement - details on the project homepage
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise>.
If you have any other questions please consult the FAQ
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise/FAQ>.
Sincerely,
* Liam Wyatt [Wittylama]*
Senior Program Manager
for *Enterprise,* *Campaigns, & WikiCite*
Wikimedia Foundation
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