Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-03-29

Topics from the past

• Reminder: Submit items for the Status Discovery updates
  • ACTION: Dan volunteers to transclude updates into the product page
  • ACTION: Chris will start sending weekly reminders
• Update/reminder about new backlog boards in phab
  • Portal team will be setting up a backlog board

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Need coverage for Scrum of Scrums this week and next
  • ACTION: Kevin can attend scrum of scrums this week
• Need coverage for facilitator/scribe for checkin April 5 (or move it to Monday)
  • ACTION: Tomasz volunteered to facilitate/scribe next week’s checkin
• FDC narrative will be posted this Thursday. FDC and community feedback will follow.
  • We have already posted the majority of our narrative on mw.o
• Our Q3 goals are mostly looking good
• Q4 goals are almost final
• Safe travels everyone who is heading anywhere!
• Dan will be presenting at metrics on Thursday; Tomasz will be doing a maps demo.
• Got approval from Wes and Jaime to order elastic, maps, and relforge hardware this fiscal year, which may free up some budget in the next fiscal year. More hardware to follow next fiscal year.
  • Guillaume will be working with ops folks to learn about the plans and timeline
  • Erik filed a phab task for this
  • ACTION: Tomasz will follow up to make sure everyone is on the same page
• Reminder: Please give feedback on how the team retros went (see email thread)

Scrum of Scrums

Blocked

• WDQS problem appears to be related to varnish; task is up for grabs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127014
• SVG sanitizer security review (graphs) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125382

Blocking

• Not that we know of

News

• See Status Discovery updates

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 in Jan 2016 and plan to run one more which started on March 22, 2016. We have run out of time to run the third test in Q3)
• Maps: Wikivoyage in all languages: Deployed but adoption on Dutch is blocked on community. It’s available to them.

Q4 goals

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

FYI

• Next Discovery retrospective(s): TBD
• Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): April 6
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT