2021-2022
The Abstract Wikipedia aims to build technology that facilitates cross-cultural knowledge exchange across wikis. For example, how might we enable our community to transfer the unique knowledge on Spanish Wikipedia to Hindi Wikipedia, and vice versa? I joined the Wikimedia Foundation because I was interested in knowledge equity and the role design plays in diversifying who edits Wikipedia, so Abstract Wikipedia was a perfect fit.
My responsibilities included:
The first project I worked on was designing the core experience for Wikifunctions, an open source, multilingual platform for our global developer community to collaboratively write functions that would generate natural language.
I led the one-year launch initiative for Wikifunctions. This included collaborating with the project lead to set a product vision, create a launch roadmap, and manage cross-functional stakeholders. I introduced a design process at the team level, defined the target audience at the project level, and crafted a user-friendly experience aligned with Wikimedia's design system and community expectations.
After thorough exploration, incorporating feedback from the Wikimedia community, and collaborative discussions with the project lead and cross-functional partners, I finalized version 0 of the Wikifunctions function editor.
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A minimal, accessible, and intuitive interface designed in accordance with the Wikimedia design system, that will allow thousands of Wikimedians to write open source functions on their phone or any device. I made design decisions such as:
The desktop design looks different from mobile but has all the same functionality. On Wikimedia platforms we use different skins for desktop versus mobile. The mobile skin is more modern and clean, the desktop skin mimics the timeless and universally recognizable design language of Wikipedia.