July 6, 2026: Services and Ownership Update

Hi, I’m Sonja and I lead the Contributor product teams at the Foundation. I’m currently helping with closing out the current wishlist process and defining what the future of the wishlist should look like. You’ll soon hear more from me to follow up on Marshall's last update on long-term proposals and next steps. In the meantime, I have an update on maintenance assignments for the 27 tools and production services previously maintained by CommTech – we know that many of these are critical tools for editors, and so it is important that there are teams ready to address issues when they occur. Suman and other engineering leaders worked on this list. While filing Phabricator tasks and other modes of contacting WMF will work to raise issues, contacting the product managers or engineering managers on these teams is also an option. Note that since our last post we've added a few more tools to this list per volunteer feedback.

• Popular Pages Bot – Data Platform Engineering
• CopyPatrol – Technical Partnerships team (to manage Turnitin contract); Moderator Tools
• Pageviews Analysis – Data Platform Engineering
• XTools – Moderator Tools
• Extension:CodeMirror – Editing
• Extension:LoginNotify – Product Safety and Security
• Database Reports – Data Platform Engineering
• Extension:PageAssessments – Data Platform Engineering
• SVG Translate – MediaWiki Engineering
• Extension:TemplateWizard – Editing (front end); Content Transform Team (back end)
• Commons deletion notification bot – Moderator Tools
• Event Metrics – Connection
• Wikisource Export – MediaWiki Engineering
• Wikimedia OCR – MediaWiki Engineering
• Google-api-proxy – Tools Infrastructure
• Extension:WikiSource – MediaWiki Engineering
• Who Wrote That? – Moderator Tools
• WikiWho – Moderator Tools
• Edit Recovery – Editing
• Template recall and discovery – Editing (front end); Content Transform Team (back end)
• Extension:CommunityRequests – Technical Program Management (team link coming soon)
• Watchlist Labels – Moderator Tools
• Extension:GlobalPreferences – MediaWiki Engineering
• Realtime Preview – Editing
• AutosuggestSiteLink – MediaWiki Engineering
• Extension:ArticleCreationWorkflow – Language and Product Localization
• Community Tech Bot – MediaWiki Engineering
• Extension:UrlShortener – MediaWiki Engineering
• Multiblocks – Product Safety and Security, as part of the blocks system
• Watchlist Expiry – Moderator Tools

As we shared in our June update, in April we introduced our approach to ensuring continuity of ownership for production services: every service we run in production will have an assigned team responsible for it. This is an important step for the Foundation. Our goal is to move away from individual ownership of tools and services, and instead establish clear team assignments. By assigning teams, we can create a more sustainable and reliable model for maintaining and supporting our production services.

In that vein, this “Maintainers” page is being updated to indicate some of what I listed above (though not all of the tools will be on the Maintainers page, as that page is meant for production software).

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• Team Processes
• Development
• Maintenance
• Team Documentation (Drafts in progress)
• Community Tech/Phabricator criteria

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