製品・技術諮問委員会/2025年2月 PTAC勧告草案のフィードバック
製品・技術諮問委員会 （PTAC＝Product and Technology Advisory Council）とはウィキメディア財団職員とコミュニティ参加者が協力して、より回復力があり将来を見据えた技術プラットフォームを共同で定義するグループです。PTACの対面型の初会議は、1月下旬にアメリカ合衆国オレゴン州ポートランドで催しました。
PTAC 自体は1年限定の実験です 🧪。目標は、今後の複数年にわたって製品および技術開発に関する提言を行い、財団の戦略方向性との整合を目指して繰り返し可能なプロセスを構築することにあります。これはバグ修正や即時の改善に重点を置くコミュニティ要望リストに代わるものではありません。
In January, we met together over three days to discuss how best to allocate $300,000 to $500,000 in funding for use by the product and technology department. In that discussion, we looked at data and trends and explored the potential value of different strategic directions. We asked ourselves a question: what does the movement most need from us right now to advance the mission? There are a lot of areas that could be improved in the product, but in a constrained resource environment, we focused on what we believe is most needed at this moment.
検討した主題は次の4つ：
The first two topics were particular areas of interest for the group, and so we have prepared short outlines reflecting our thinking in these two areas.
While all these choices have value, we identified mobile experiences as having the greatest potential impact, with particular emphasis on mobile contributions. PTAC recommends that improving mobile contribution experiences has the greatest potential to bring in new and unheard voices onto Wikipedia and sister projects, and will improve the experience of readers and contributors most widely.
This recommendation will inform work that will be included in the fiscal year 2025-2026 Annual Plan. This practically means that work related to this recommendation will be scoped and resources allocated to it in this new financial year. To be scoped into the annual plan and work of teams, we are requesting feedback and discussion on this proposal by 21 February.
この勧告は何のため？ どういう意味があるの？
For fiscal year 2025–2026, we recommend using the funds we are tasked with allocating for improving the mobile contributor experience. We recommend that the funds we are tasked with prioritizing go towards WMF product and technology teams' research and implementation of initiatives to enable mobile contributors, as we believe this is the most high-impact way to further the Wikimedia mission. This will inform prioritization and decision making by product and technology teams in the upcoming fiscal year.
This recommendation is currently in a draft stage, and we invite feedback and discussion before we finalize it on 21 February. While we do not intend to change our choice of mobile contribution experiences as this group's priority for this planning cycle, we welcome feedback on how to enrich this proposal to best reflect the needs and priorities from the global Wikimedia community.
- Do you have concerns about prioritizing mobile experiences?
- How can we refine this draft recommendation?
- Is there something else we missed and we should include in next year's discussion?
Please leave feedback on the talk page.
何か妥協が避けられないことはありますか？
Resources are limited and while WMF product & technology teams will continue to work in all four areas, selecting mobile experiences as a priority means that the resources PTAC is in charge of allocating will be more narrowly used to accelerate work in this area.
New editors are the lifeblood of Wikipedia and the sister projects, and while there are large overlaps between our recommendation and improving the experience of new editors, we believe that better mobile experiences will enable us to attract new editors and will improve the experience of the broadest range of editors.
Image uploading is a longstanding poor user experience, however we believe it is unlikely to have the same level of impact as prioritizing mobile experiences.
プロジェクトにおける管理者の重要な役割を考えると、その人数を増やしたり満足度を向上させることは非常に重要です。しかしながら、ボランティアの道のりが読者から始まるなら管理者はそのかなり先を進んでおり、PTACがデータ検証したところ、読者と潜在的な新規貢献者の最大のプールとはモバイルであると明らかになっています。モバイル体験向上に重点を置くと、管理者の満足度とワークフローも改善が期待されます。