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Product

Wikimedia Product writes software for the Wikimedia movement. The Discovery team works on search functions and maps. The Editing team maintains the core editing tools, including the visual editor. The Reading team improves the experience for readers and casual contributors, especially on mobile platforms. The Community Technology team supports active editors through the Community Wishlist project.

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Technology

Wikimedia Technology maintains the technical infrastructure that is used by Wikipedia and other projects. In addition to operations and security, they also support research and the Tool Labs for community developers working on tools and bots that help users maintain and use wikis.

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Technical Collaboration

The Technical Collaboration group at the Wikimedia Foundation helps developers to build features in collaboration with our communities. We are organized in two teams based on primary audiences: Community Liaisons (editors) and Developer Relations (developers).

Resource Where to get direct support
Editing tools: Do you have questions about the visual editor? Feedback page for the VisualEditor software
Collaboration tools: Do you have questions about Flow, the threaded discussion and workflow tool? Feedback page for Flow
Notifications: Do you have questions about Notifications or "Echo"? Feedback on Notifications
Volunteer development: Do you want to become a volunteer developer?
Tool Labs: Do you want to have a tool here? Talk to Chase
Design research: Do you want to join user testing? Talk to Abbey's team
Beta features: Do you want to test new products? Enable some beta features