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Product Analytics
Group:
Research and Decision Science
Team members:
Connie Chen
Jennifer Wang
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
Megan Neisler
Mikhail Popov
Shay Nowick
Backlog:
#product-analytics
Management:
Kate Zimmerman
(Lead),
Omari Sefu
The Wikimedia Foundation's
Product Analytics
team has nurtured data-informed decision-making in the
Product department
since February 2018.
Our
Mission & Values
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We deliver
quantitatively-based user insights to inform decision-making
in support of Wikimedia's strategic direction toward
service and equity
We strive to provide guidance, insights, and data that are:
Ethical • Trusted • Impactful • Accessible • Inclusive • Inspired
What we do
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Product Analytics contributes to the Wikimedia Movement through our work with
Product
teams and departments across the Foundation.
Our responsibilities include:
Empowering others to make data-informed decisions through education and self-service analytics tools
Helping set and track goals that are achievable and measurable
Ensuring that Wikimedia products collect useful, high quality data without harming user privacy
Extracting insights through ad-hoc analyses and machine learning projects
Building dashboards and reports for tracking success and health metrics
Designing and analyzing experiments (A/B tests)
Developing tools and software for working with data, in collaboration with
Data Engineering
and
Product
teams.
Addressing data-related issues in collaboration with teams like
Data Engineering
Security
, and
Legal
Who is on the team
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Listed alphabetically by first name within each section
Product Analytics is part of the
Research and Decision Science group
, led by
Kate Zimmerman
, Senior Director of Decision Science.
Team Leadership
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Kate Zimmerman
, Head of Product Analytics
Omari Sefu
Team Members
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Connie Chen
, Sr. Data Scientist
Jennifer Wang
, Staff Data Scientist
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
, Sr. Data Scientist
Megan Neisler
, Staff Data Scientist
Mikhail Popov
, Staff Data Scientist
Shay Nowick
, Sr. Data Scientist
Product team support
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As of July 2025, Product Analytics transitioned to supporting Product & Technology work at the objective level.
The assignments are:
Data Scientist
FY25–26
Megan
WE1 Contributor Experiences
Connie
WE2 Vital Knowledge
transitioning to
WE4 Safety & Security
Jennifer
WE3 Consumer Experiences
(primary)
Shay
WE3 Consumer Experiences
(apps)
Krishna Chaitanya
WE5 Responsible Use of Infrastructure
Mikhail
SDS2 Experimentation Platform
Team references
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Team mission and values
Team norms
Glossary
Data products
(various deliverables such as reports, analyses, and datasets)
Working with Product Analytics
Chore Wheel
Onboarding notes for new team members
Research and Decision Science documentation and materials for new data practitioners
Includes guidelines, best practices, documentation on tools we use
Offboarding
Contingency Carousel
Fun
All sub-pages of Product Analytics
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Chore Wheel
Comparison datasets
Consultation Hours
Contingency Carousel
Dashboarding Guidelines
Data products
Data products/fawiki metrics summary
Data products/ptwiki intervention impact report
Data products/ptwiki metrics summary Apr2024
Data products/ptwiki metrics summary Apr2024/en
Data products/ptwiki metrics summary Apr2024/ja
Data products/ptwiki metrics summary Jun2022
Event Platform recommendations
Event logging
Fun
Glossary
Mission and Values
Movement metrics
Offboarding
Offsites
Offsites/2018-11-Onsite
Onboarding
Reporting Guidelines
Style guide
Superset Access
Team norms
Wiki comparison suggestions
Working with Product Analytics
References
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[WMF Internal]
Product Analytics & Design Research: supporting work at the objective level
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