Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-03-22

Topics from the past

• Reminder: Submit items for the Status Discovery updates
• Portal dashboard has not yet shown increase in searching which we were expecting; too early to tell
  • Still haven’t seen a big change: Mikhail is working on a phab task for it

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Update/reminder about new backlog boards in phab
  • Expect workboard changes "soonish"
• Reminder: Update calendars to reflect any time off/unavailability
• Analysis and maps teams have had retros; 25 minutes is short, but otherwise good

Scrum of Scrums

Blocked

• SPARQL query caching still an issue but not a blocker; really just an ops issue
• New WDQS problem appears to be related to varnish; Stas will follow up https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127014
• SVG sanitizer security review (graphs)
• Maps hardware
  • Stalled waiting on finance
• Elastic hardware
  • Might be moving?

Blocking

• Are we blocking?  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)

Q3 goals (excluding those that are done):

• Quick survey for search results: Unlikely to be completed
• Portal: Run 3 A/B tests: At risk (we ran an a/b/c test and plan to run one more starting today)
• Portal: Question about whether the lack of impact of the work that was pushed to production should count as a success
• Maps: Wikivoyage in all languages: Deployed but adoption of German and Dutch is blocked on community ???

Q4 goals

• draft is up: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discovery
  • Dan needs to cut them down; will schedule office hours
  • WDQS and maps still don’t have goals, so those teams should add candidates
  • Proposal to cut analysis goal, reflecting the new team size

FYI

• Next Discovery retrospective: team retrospectives are in progress
• Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): April 6
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT