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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.
  • Data Pipelines as a Service
  • Kubernetes Data Infrastructure
  • Data Catalog

• 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

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
    • Code repositories

Research and Decision Science

• Research
  • Research lead: Leila Zia
  • Phabricator task board: #Research
• Design Research
• Movement Insights
• Product Analytics

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
      • #netops
      • #dba
      • #operations-software-development
    • Product tags:
      • #prod-kubernetes (related to Streamlined Delivery program)
      • #pybal (product, not team/workflow)
    • Ticket-style workflow systems:
      • #ops-access-requests
      • #hardware-requests
      • #procurement
• Collaboration Services
• Data Center Operations
  • #dcops
• Data Persistence
• Traffic
  • #traffic
• Infrastructure Foundations
• Observability
• Service Operations
  • #serviceops

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.