Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-06-14
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Topics from the past
[edit]- Submit any outstanding expense reports ASAP! (Fiscal year is ending)
- For search offsite, send to Katie and Dan
- Might already be too late
Announcements, Information, Questions
[edit]- Kartographer (maps) got deployed to english wikivoyage
- This afternoon, Mikhail is giving a talk about graphs and data (which will be recorded)
Scrum of Scrums
[edit]Blocked
- Portal update script blocked on ops https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135029
- Guillaume will check to see if we can help move it along
- Stas will work with Max to make sure the task contains enough information for anyone to understand it
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
Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)
[edit](Status below last updated 2016-06-14)
Q4 Key Results
[edit]- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discovery
- Search
- Run TextCat A/B test
- English test is running now; needs to be restarted; 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
- Run TextCat A/B test
- WDQS
- Add geocoordinate functionality
- This is done
- Add geocoordinate functionality
- Maps/Interactive
- Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
- Switching templates in progress, done on enwv; cleaning up; others to follow
- Create use case page for maps
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Conversation_about_interactive_map_use
- With help from Chris, the page is now done enough
- Wrote a “lessons learned” from this conversation
- Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
- Portal
- Run at least 3 A/B tests
- Three have been run - yay!
- Qualtrics survey has been 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
- Run at least 3 A/B tests
FYI
[edit]- Wikimania June 21-28
- Next Discovery team retrospectives: Scheduled June 30-July 7
- Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled July 7
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
- Next All-Discovery retro July 11