Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-09-08
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Topics from last week
[edit]- WDQS announcement status
- Yes, it was announced
- Offsite ready for booking travel?
- YES! Email was sent with instructions for setting up travel
Announcements, Information, Questions
[edit]- If you don’t plan to attend the Jan all staff offsite, let your manager know ASAP
- They are still soliciting ideas for themes for the all-staff event
- Agenda for Discovery offsite is under development
- Try to coordinate arrival in Orlando, so we can carpool to Canaveral
- Maps team is in final planning for a maps beta announcement
- Working with a Community Liaison
- Plans underway to get a full-time CL person for Discovery
- Have hired one front-end developer; second is in progress
- Data analysts are becoming a thing in other departments
- Yuri would like some data analysis help with maps and also with graphs
- VE can now edit graphs
- Good progress updating search cluster docs (mostly Erik)
- We shared our plans with Denny(?) at Google, and he likes what he heard/saw
- Dan/Tomasz met with apps team about deep linking; create more seamless experience on iOS
- Asked iOS team to set up metrics so we know how much traffic is coming through that way
Scrum of Scrums
[edit]- Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?
- Android team reported:
- “Better search prioritization; when searching for ‘obama’, the Barack Obama article now appears before ‘I Got a Crush... on Obama’”
- “Nearby maps beta release coming up”
- Yuri and Max will talk to them
- Android team reported:
- Are we blocked?
- Security completed the Kafka security review (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109384)
- Patches (including upstream) are in; service should start working next week (around the 15th)
- Security completed the Kafka security review (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109384)
- Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
- VE Bug caused by search results (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796)
- Brad has OK’d Erik’s latest proposed solution; engineering work on it hasn't started yet
- VE Bug caused by search results (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796)
Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update
[edit](How are we doing; any current or imminent work to improve them)
- Deploy Maps to Production
- Has been deployed; cleaning up loose ends
- Deploy WDQS to Production
- Has been deployed; cleaning up loose ends
- Reducing Zero results
- Goal has a “Yellow” status
- High priority to get the next test (suggester) rolled out
- Patch needs to be reviewed today, so A/B test will go live Thursday
- Defining Satisfaction metric
- Quantitative: We have a plan, which will be URL-based but won’t break caching
- Qualitative: Need to put a survey on search results for subset of users
- Meeting with duckduckgo (next week?) about how to track satisfaction
- Measuring API usage
- Completed.
FYI
[edit]- Next Discovery retrospective: Sept 14
- Next Discovery showcase: Sept 21
- Gerrit cleanup day: Wed Sept 23
- Discovery Offsite Sept 30-Oct 2 (details TBA)