Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-06-07

Topics from the past

• Dan on vacation from 2nd June until 21st June (inclusive)
• Katie was in SF on Thursday and Friday, and met with team members
• Submit any outstanding expense reports ASAP! (Fiscal year is ending)
  • For search offsite, send to Katie

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Adding a link to status updates in team infoboxes. Is this cool with everyone?
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Search
  • Answer: Yes. Cool.
• Weekly code review hours https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E205
  • Opportunity to get code reviewed, or to help review code
• Ops starting to think about an offsite--maybe October. Guillaume would attend.

Scrum of Scrums

Blocked

• Portal update script blocked on ops https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135029
  • Guillaume will check to see if we can help move it along

Dependencies which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are not longer a blocker)

• (none)

Are we blocking?

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

Discovery News

• See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)

(Status below last updated 2016-06-07)

Q4 Key Results

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discovery
• Search
  • Run TextCat A/B test
    • English test is running now; others to follow
  • (Maybe push TextCat to production)
  • Update Elasticsearch
    • DONE!
  • Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
    • Won’t happen--elasticsearch removed that feature
• WDQS
  • Add geocoordinate functionality
    • DONE!
• Maps/Interactive
  • Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
    • (Still) Hope to start switching templates within a week
  • Create use case page for maps
    • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Conversation_about_interactive_map_use
    • (That page could use additional work)
    • Writing up a “lessons learned” from this conversation
• Portal
  • Run at least 3 A/B tests
    • Two have been run so far; another one has started this week
    • 2 more scheduled
    • Qualtrics survey will be restarted to get more respondents (how did visitor get to portal)
  • Graduated 2 successful A/B tests
    • Pushed descriptive text for sister projects
    • Pushed language detection and re-sorting primary links

FYI

• Next Discovery retrospectives: In progress last week and this week
• Wikimania June 21-28
• Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled July 7
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
• All-Discovery retro maybe mid-to-late-July?