Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-06-21

Topics from the past

• (none)

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Erik will remain the tech lead for Q1
• Discovery will present at July metrics meeting (rather than June)

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
  • Stas will work with Max to make sure the task contains enough information for anyone to understand it
  • Kevin will set up a meeting to try to unblock this and find an owner
• “Should HTML formatting/DOM manip (presentation, responsiveness) be done in JS (frontend) or in PHP (backend)”
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136458

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 2016-06-14. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

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; had to be restarted; will be turned off Thursday
  • (Maybe push TextCat to production)
• Maps/Interactive
  • Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
    • Switching templates in progress, done on enwv for most functionality; cleaning up; ru migrated; may reach out to other communities

FYI

• 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