Topics from last week

Status of Maps announcement?
- Was blocked on getting dashboards hooked up
- Should happen today or tomorrow

Announcements, Information, Questions

Just had “next steps” meeting for ZRR searches.
- Primary result: improving stop words/and relaxation
We were seeing some serious sampling issues...lacking confidence
- Erik: No answers yet, but is asking for help from analytics
Offsite
- Planning still underway
- If you haven’t booked travel, do so
- Rocket launch scheduled for that Friday morning (6am), so optional team field trip
- Some events (including some workshop events) at Kennedy Space Center
Quarterly goal planning is ongoing
Lightning talks? Yuri planned to sign up. Stas hasn’t yet but will.
Email thread about adding another meeting for developers
- Wes: Perhaps the monthly showcase could serve part of that purpose?
WDQS dashboard
- Had a spike in activity from the announcement, now level.
- We should understand those customers.
  - Our plan is to set up a google form to get feedback from users
  - Dan will ask analysts to put together a quick report on types of searches being done
- Lydia (wmde) sent nice note of praise
Look at Q2 goals page (and leave comments there)
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals#Discovery
- Some KPI details are still being refined
- Shouldn’t be any big surprises
Dan/Moiz met Friday regarding UX for searching in other languages
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112349 has a mockup
New UX eng (Julian) will join us October 1
Survey should be mocked up today, after which they can be built

Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?
- Tomasz will check in with Android on their maps alpha/beta

Are we blocked?
- Kafka: Awaiting deployment of forked apache
Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
- VE Bug caused by search results (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796)
  - Brad OK’d Erik’s latest proposed solution, so just need to do the work.

Deploy Maps to Production
- Has been deployed; cleaning up loose ends
Deploy WDQS to Production
- Has been deployed and announced
Reducing Zero results
- Goal has a “Yellow” status
- Completion suggester A/B test running now
  - But concerned about accuracy/reliability of data
- Plan to start language test next Tuesday
  - Restart by Thursday will bring indexes
  - Blocker is UX, but phab task shows that should be easy
- ALL TESTS ARE BLOCKED until we figure out and fix the bucketing weirdness
Defining Satisfaction metric
- Quantitative: We have implemented a URL-based system that doesn’t break caching
  - Needs to be productionized, but later
- Qualitative: Need to put a survey on search results for subset of users
- Meeting with duckduckgo (this week) about how to track satisfaction
Measuring API usage
- Completed.