Welcome to the Phabricator board of the Wikimedia Foundation Research team.
Here are some tips to help you orient yourself in our board:
- If you are interested in learning about our work but don’t want to get into the details of specific tasks, we invite you to read our bi-annual Research Report instead.
- We are improving how we utilize Phabricator to organize our work. This process might take a while so we ask for your patience! Until then, if you are unsure about the status of a task, please contact the task Assignee or Leila Zia <leila@wikimedia.org>.
- We track our quarterly commitments in Research. There is a lane of each quarter that is marked with the months that start and end the quarter. We try to update our quarterly tasks once a week.
- The tasks located in the Backlog lane are in queue of being clarified or prioritized. During this process, the team decides if the work will be picked up for the next six months. If so, they will be included in the Staged lane, so please refer to the latter if you want to know about our priorities outside of the quarterly commitments.
- The In Progress lane refers to the tasks outside of the quarterly commitments that are currently being worked on by the team. If a task needs sign-off, they will be moved to this column until the appropriate person marks it as “Resolved”.
- The Research team works in collaboration with multiple teams, so if we make a request to another team, this task can be found in the “Support needed” lane to easily track its status.
- If you are interested in some of the research ideas that we or others have come up with and we are not currently considering to prioritize, see Research-Freezer.
Our tags
- The Epic tag is used to track longer-term projects that can go across multiple quarters..
- We use the following operational tags when relevant: Research-outreach, Research-consulting, Research-management, Data-release, Research-landing-page and other project-related tags.
- We are still keeping an eye on GapFinder and Recommendation-API though we don't actively contribute to them.
- The tags Knowledge-Integrity and address-knowledge-gaps are used to refer to team-lead initiatives. Tasks that are tagged with any of these may be part of a specific project with its own process or workboard.
- Research-engineering is used to make engineering work more visible. This tag is under testing.