Topics from the past

Annual planning (submitted to finance on Friday Mar 4)
- We will get feedback this week
- Early feedback about the numbers is positive;
- Work on narrative this Wed/Thurs
- Final deadline is March 31
Q4 goals (draft was due on Friday Mar 4)
- Nothing has changed. We still have 7 goals, but need to cut down search goals.
- Dan will work w/Erik and then others as needed
Worth spending more effort on documentation (e.g. TextCat)?
- Should we have a semi-formal policy about the importance of documentation?
- Concerns about over-documenting (e.g. not agile)
- Move the conversation to email
- Dan is willing to prioritize phab tasks to write docs on specific topics
- Chris can alert if we are answering the same question multiple times (feature-level)
- Multiple audiences (onboarding new staff, end-users on Wikimedia sites, end users on third party sites, other devs)
QuickSurvey:
- Some remaining questions regarding privacy policy (Dan will check w/Leila)
- Then we can submit a patch to get reviewed and deployed
- Need to create messages in the mw namespace, so might need to limit one one (or few) wiki.
- This is lower priority than some other work right now

Announcements, Information, Questions

Team retrospectives have been scheduled (this week and next)
Julien will be working with the Maps team through the end of this quarter
Reminder: Submit items for the Discovery status updates
Portal dashboard has not yet shown increase in searching which we were expecting; too early to tell

NOTE: Stas and Yuri were missing for this part, so some might be out of date

Blocked

Stas and Yuri will talk to ops about SPARQL query caching (?)
- Discussed; found bug which ops will fix
- Open question about how long cache should live
SVG sanitizer security review (graphs) (?)
Maps hardware
- We think this may have to wait until after elastic hardware
- Tomasz will follow up with Mark
Elastic hardware
- Awaiting ops (Mark’s) approval

Blocking

Completion suggester: Roll out to full production: Plans being worked out
Review ES configuration: In progress
- “Done enough” but will keep doing
Quick survey for search results: At risk
Portal: Run 3 A/B tests: At risk (we ran an a/b/c test and expect to run one more)
Maps: Wikivoyage in all languages: Deployed but adoption of German and Dutch is blocked on community

draft is up: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discovery

Next Discovery retrospective: Team retrospectives spread over the next couple weeks
Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): April 6
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT