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Wikimedia Product/2019-20 Q2 Goals

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Goals for the Wikimedia Product department for the second quarter of the fiscal year 2019-20, October - December 2019.

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TEAM GOAL KEY RESULT
Android Increase editor acquisition/retention Release new SE home screen
10-15% increase in monthly returning editors.
Anti-Harassment Tools Begin Checkuser development Make significant improvements to Checkuser tool
Get baseline on Checkuser satisfaction
Community Tech Complete 3 Community Wishlist projects and launch one more Page Curation Improvements: Complete work and release remaining changes
Who Wrote That tool: Complete and release work
Password Reset Project: Complete and release work
Watchlist Expiry: Begin development work
Editing Develop features that will make contributing content to article and user talk pages more efficient and intuitive for junior contributors. Build prototypes and run user tests for "contribution" features
Growth Generate and learn from user interactions with newcomer tasks feature on newcomer homepage Deploy versions of newcomer tasks that include topic matching and guidance
35% of newcomers who visit homepage initiate the suggested edits module
65% of those who initiate the module either click a task or browse tasks
Inuka Run user research to understand the needs for users of KaiOS (cheap mobile devices frequently used in India and other developping countries) and users in Latin America KaiOS user persona(s) created
Mexico/Brazil persona(s) created
iOS Clearly defined metrics of awareness and trust and baseline measurement Define baseline metrics, run initial surveys, perform initial design and product research and plan the initial set of experiments
Language Learn about small wiki needs and validate our design ideas. Research study, Design spec and Technical evaluation.
Developers Learn about cooperation across open source and open data projects and how to involve more developers Results from the Outreachy, and GSoC 2020 initiatives for Wikimedia
Parsing Deploy Parsoid/PHP to the production cluster and turn off Parsoid/JS Deploy Parsoid/PHP to the production cluster and turn off Parsoid/JS
Pay down technical debt incurred during the Parsoid/PHP port
Start work to develop and publish an updated parser extension API (multi-quarter goal)
Structured Data Finish SDC v1, Solidify 2020 plan Release CAT and other input types
Solidify 2020 plan
Web Determine the scope of the project by finalizing proposed changes to the desktop experience and begin technical setup for feature implementation Perform consultations on the proposed changes with various communities.  Collaboratively decide which communities will be the test wikis.