Wikipedia:User Advocacy/Roadmap

This following headings are modified from the Wikimedia Product Whitepaper with detail of commitments from Wikimedia Engineering/2013-14 Goals. Further information can be got from the Wikimedia Wikimedia Movement Strategic Plan Summary.

Additionally, upgrades and improvements to the core Wikipedia software is on-going.

Visual Editor
Summary: Develop and deploy a rich-text editing environment for Wikimedia projects with visual editing tools for all key markup.

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 * By end of December 2013, after additional stability improvements and bug fixes, VisualEditor will be deployed as the default editor for most Wikimedia wikis.

Current status: The Visual Editor is live on the English Wikipedia to all logged in users.

On-boarding
Summary: Develop, test and productize interventions designed to increase the retention of new contributors. Then create new entry vectors to increase the inflow of contributors.

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 * By end of June 2014, we expect to achieve a sustainable increase in the Total Active Editors core metric (registered users across all projects who make >= 5 contributions in content namespaces, de-duplicated) by 2.4K per month, adjusting for seasonality and length-of-month.

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Mobile
Summary: Develop an optimized site experience for audiences using 2G or 3G phones to access Wikimedia content. Create entry vectors for meaningful participation.

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 * By end of June 2014, the number of unique registered users per month who contribute content to the projects from a mobile device (i.e. at least 1 mainspace edit or upload) will increase to 6K.

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Multimedia
Summary: Create a delightful experience for contributing media files. In parallel, develop effective tools for vetting large numbers of media contributions.

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Internationalization
Summary: Eliminate software barriers in specific languages that prevent people from using or contributing to Wikimedia projects. Focus on strategic priority languages.

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Content quality and feedback
Summary: Develop a comprehensive quality review and labeling toolkit. Systematically invite reviews from people with demonstrable expertise. Make all feedback maximally usable and useful to readers and contributors alike.

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Discussion
Summary: Redesign talk pages to ensure they are maximally effective for supporting collaboration and the new user experience.

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 * By end of December 2013, user-to-user messaging will be fully deployed in production on one or more Wikipedia projects. This release would be available to all user groups, and deployments in additional languages and projects would follow soon after the initial release.
 * By end of July 2014, visible progress will have been made towards Flow-enabled article talk discussions, a workflow language and feed/subscriptions framework, with precise milestones to be determined. However, we don't expect that we will have Flow on all talk-based workflows by year-end.
 * By end of June 2014, opt-in experimental real-time collaboration and chat will be deployed in production, leading to full build-out in the default mode in FY 2014-15.

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Offline publishing
Summary: Develop a rich toolset for exporting, managing and using Wikimedia content with limited or no Internet connectivity.

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Structured data
Summary: Build a structured data repository (a “Wikidata Commons”) to eshare structured data across Wikimedia projects.

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WikiProject tools
Summary: Create a full set of tools to support the organization of collaborative work by identified individuals around a specific topic or issue.

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Social media
Summary: Implement lightweight and privacy-sensitive tools that enable users to extend their Wikimedia activity into social networks.

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