MozillaWiki:Team

Purpose

The purpose of the Wiki Working Group is to kick-start a revitalization of the wiki and to create a sustainable framework for empowering the entire Mozilla community to participate in and sustain this effort.

It is not the goal of the WWG to do all the work of revitalizing and re-vamping the wiki, but rather to create a structure and process that will facilitate and assist all Mozillians participating in this effort.

Goals

Build tools and establish processes that empower Mozillians across functional, product, and regional areas to contribute to collective stewardship of the wiki.

Strategies

Mirror the Community Building Team's organizational structure and strategies so WWG is not a silo'd working group requiring organizational resources, but a lightweight federation of leaders from across Mozilla that coordinates work across the organization.

Roles for each committee (see committees below)

• Committee Lead
• Liaison - connects and coordinates with corresponding CBT committee
• These can be the same person

Taskforces

Create temporary Task Forces for low-hanging fruit, one-time, or urgent projects that either can't be done outside of WWG, or are acting as blockers for Mozilla as a whole.

• If you think a Task Force should be created, bring it up during a Wiki Working group.
• Task Forces would ideally align with a committee essentially as autonomous sub-groups, or as collaborations between committees.

Committees

Research & Development

Leads the WWG in determining goals and priorities through inquiry and design.

Volunteers: jennie, joelle, lyre

Systems and Data

Volunteers:

• Platform: hexmode, jd
• Editorial: lyre, gordon

Areas:

• Maintains the wiki platform infrastructure
• Maintains tools for editorial maintenance
• Works with the Research Committee to create persistent diagnostic tools to inform WWG and Mozillians across the project about wiki health
• Works with Education Committee to document diagnostic tools for community use and optimize them for accessibility

Task Forces

• Wiki Re-skin
  • Volunteers: hexmode, joelle

• Anti-Spam
  • Volunteers: hexmode, ghemsley

Education

• Creates resources to teach the wiki and wiki stewardship to contributors
• Works with Pathways committee to package

Volunteers: jennie

Pathways

• Works to turn wiki contribution opportunities into contribution pathways across Mozilla.
• (This is the group that figures out how to delegate all the Wiki work back out to the rest of the organization!)

Recognition

Possible areas:

• Badges!
• Baked goods!!
• (and more stuffed Dino plushies plz..)+1 (Foxes too)

Volunteers: Sujith

Events

• Documents best practices of wiki-focused events
• Contributes knowledge of how to incorporate wiki-based work into events to resources created by the CBT Events working group
• Coordinates WWG and Mozilla-wide events:
  • Wiki Working Group meetings
  • Wiki sprints
  • Mozilla-wide wiki gardening campaigns and hackathons

Release Processes

We release changes to MozillaWiki weekly on Thursdays. We track release planning on MozillaWiki:Releases subpages. Once the release is complete, post an announcement explaining the changes to MozillaWiki:News.

All feature and change requests are tracked in Bugzilla, under Websites > wiki.mozilla.org.

The process for a feature or change request to be implemented in production is as follows:

1. File a bug.
2. Members of MozillaTeam will triage the bug accordingly, modifying whiteboard, milestone and other fields accordingly.
3. The request will be evaluated for suitability on MozillaWiki during a MozillaWiki community call ([[#How_to_Participate|held twice monthly]). Decisions during community calls are generally made by lazy consensus, with MozillaWiki module owners and/or peers making the final call if necessary.
4. If MozillaWiki team determines the change should be implemented, it will be rolled out to our development instance first. While it implemented on dev, it will undergo testing and security review (if required).
5. Once the change has been tested and passed security review (if required), it will be pushed out to stage and finally production.

Requesting features and changes

To request a change or feature, please file a bug.

How to Participate

Meetings

The Wiki Working Group meets every other Tuesday at 8:30 PDT (15:30 UTC) (In your timezone).

AGENDA/NOTES: https://wiki.etherpad.mozilla.org/2014-10-07

If you can't attend this first meeting but want to be involved, please contact User:Ckoehler. Once we know who wants to be involved, we'll work on finding a regular meeting time that works best for the group.

CONNECTION DETAILS

• Via Vidyo: ckoehler, 9597
• Via Telephone: +1 650 903 0800, x92 (or +1 800 707 2533, password 369). Then 99597. Press •1 to mute if you’re dialed in (creates audible beep).
• Direct room link: https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=Uc9zNxNaK26f

Meeting Notes

• 2018-03-27
• 2015-01-13
• 2014-10-07
• 2014-09-23
• 2014-09-09
• 2014-06-17
• 2014-06-03
• 2014-05-20
• 2014-05-06
• 2014-04-22
• 2014-04-08
• 2014-03-25
• 2014-03-07

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