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Notice: The roadmap below is provisional and subject to change based on feedback from our readers, our editor community, technical factors, and external events.
Platform focus and strategic pillars
[edit]Reading's platform focus is presently as follows:
- Web: Global South
- Android: A Community of Readers
- iOS: Improve the Encyclopedia Experience
While broader WMF strategy is developed, here's a mapping of the Reach (discussion) strategic options to Reading strategic pillars:
WMF Reach Strategy | Reading Strategic Pillar |
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Approach One: Increase frequency of use and number of users by adapting user experience to their needs (this may result in additional content formats, making more of Wikimedia content easier to find, increasing language coverage, etc.). | Improve the Encyclopedia Experience |
Approach Two: Improve our understanding of how and why our users come to and stay on our projects so we can better serve their needs. | User Understanding |
Approach Three: Understand how Wikimedia content is reused on external platforms and explore how to encourage users of such content to go to Wikimedia projects. | Infrastructure |
Approach Four: Increase awareness and use of Wikimedia projects in two Global South countries. | Global South |
Approach Five: Enable others to reuse our content and build their own products by improving and documenting our APIs (application programming interfaces). | Services |
Approach Six: Improve Wikipedia mobile apps to increase use. | Improve the Encyclopedia Experience & Community of Readers |
Roadmap
[edit]Strategic Pillar | Team | Q2 FY15-16 | Q3 FY 15-16 | Q4 FY 15-16 | Q1 |
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Improve the Encyclopedia Experience | Android | Wiktionary, link Preview, Nearby, more material design feed, ux overhaul, | Feed | ||
iOS | Feed, UX overhaul | Feed, UX overhaul | Notifications; Placeholder: Migrate successful Android features | ||
Web | read more | Read More to stable; Hovercards wrap up (review Link Preview again, too) | Lead section of article on mobile | ||
Develop a community of Readers | Android | Synchronized saved pages list | TBD (watchlist notifications, interactions?) | ||
Web | TBD (watchlists/Gather?) | ||||
Global South | Android | Wikipedia Zero compliance | |||
iOS | Wikipedia Zero compliance | ||||
Web | Speed Reading and Discovery | Speed on mobile beta + Wikipedia Zero compliance, language switching mobile web |
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Infrastructure Initiatives | Android | Services work (content) | Productionize service layer | Service Notifications infrastructure | |
iOS | Core Data | Adoption of content service | |||
Web | Quick Survey, | Microservices | Mobile/desktop convergence? Reader/editor modes? | ||
Product | Quick Survey, tests, research global south | Tests | Tests |
Departmental goals, Q2 FY2015-2016
[edit]Team | About | Objective | Action | Result | Phab |
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Infrastructure | Action API usage statistics | Feed data on daily Action API usage into some analytics backend (likely hadoop) | WMF wikis using new modular authn solution and additional customizations unblocked | Ready for Q3 | https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102079 |
Infrastructure | AuthManager | Provide the core capability of configuring a single MediaWiki deployment with multiple authentication providers and components without custom coding (vs current monolithic AuthPlugin architecture) | WMF wikis using new modular authn solution and additional customizations unblocked | Ready for Q3 | https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89459 |
Android | Content and media | Integrate more types of content and media into the app, to improve user engagement and retention. | Surface more audio and geolocation data in the article presentation. | Ready for Q3 | https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115490 |
iOS | Design on iPad | Spec out iPad experience | Ipad and landscape mode are opportunities for a richer, more immersive experience. | Ready for Q3 | |
Web | Hovercards | Reading Q2 Goals 2016 | Present initial results of Hovercards test and see if concern remains To enable screen reader support | Uncover blockers or green light for moving forward | |
Web | Read more | A user reaching the end of an article can see suggestions for reading more articles so that they don't have to think about what else they should read. | Read more launched on desktop and mobile stable across all projects. | Ready for Q3 |
Departmental goals, Q1 FY2015-2016
[edit]Team | Objective | Key Result | Dependency | ETA | Status |
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Infrastructure |
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TBD | None | EOQ | DRAFT |
Mobile Apps |
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TBD |
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EOQ | DRAFT |
Web |
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TBD |
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EOQ | DRAFT |