Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-08-24
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Topics from last week
[edit]- Survey outcomes
- They were already presented
- Common complaint was from people entering query sentences rather than keywords
- Should we look more into throwing away filler words in searches (e.g. “the”)?
- Moiz would like to do more mobile surveys
- Wes proposes putting a survey for the portal
- They were already presented
- Update on Q2 Goals
- Not much email conversation happened while Dan was out
- We should increase publicity about search (discovery) mailing list
- We are officially becoming the “Discovery” department
Announcements, Information, Questions
[edit]- How did Stas’s presentation go?
- Went well. People asked questions, both on WD and WDQS
- Didn’t widely distribute “production” URL since it is not yet ready for full public use
- Will work on getting slides up (linked from the Discovery team page)
- Posted our ops job req on Friday. If you know someone, let them know.
- Initial results from slop test
- Going from 0 to 1 increases zero results, and going to 2 increases even more
- This is a “Theoretically impossible result”
- Russia is starting to block wikipedia
- Yuri implemented static maps, which can easily be embedded in wiki articles
- “Social” event this afternoon in SF.
- Intended to encourage cross-team communication.
Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update
[edit](How are we doing; any current or imminent work to improve them)
- “Phrase slop” test status
- Initial results above
- Are we ready for the next test?
- No. We don’t expect to have a test Thursday that is likely to greatly improve the ZRR
- With just over a month left in the quarter, how are we looking for
- Reducing Zero results
- “Yellow” status, indicating we might not hit this quarterly goal
- We will continue our tests; keep trying to hit the goal
- We should start having conversations about shifting or framing the goal (what we learned)
- Defining Satisfaction metric
- First version didn’t work out. New version is in the works.
- Measuring API usage
- Completed.
- Reducing Zero results
Scrum of Scrums
[edit]- Are we blocked?
- No
- Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
- VE Bug caused by search results. (was: Patch pending, waiting for Brad’s return)
- Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?
FYI
[edit]- Next Discovery retrospective: Sept 14
- Next Discovery showcase: Sept 21
- Gerrit cleanup day (Wed Sept 23)
- Offsite Sept 30 (details TBA)