Topics from the past

Quarterly review was this week
State of the Maps conference July 23-25; Katherine will be giving a keynote; Yuri is presenting

Announcements, Information, Questions

Need someone to run this meeting July 19
- Mikhail volunteered (thanks!)
Tool labs projects will be purged, except for those that someone claims:
- See https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Purge_2016
- Discovery-stats, maps ? (search and shiny-r were marked used after I first wrote this)
Quarterly review recap?
- Went well. Good questions. Nothing came out of it that the whole group needs to be aware of.
Kevin plans to rearrange the team retrospectives to do one team per week, rather than all of them during the same week each month. That will make life easier for those of us who attend multiple team retros (Kevin, Deb, Chris, Mikhail, Katie).
Katie thinks she has all necessary 1:1’s scheduled now. If not, let her know.

Are we blocked?

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

Other dependencies (in either direction) which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are progressing smoothly, have no urgency, etc.)

“Should HTML formatting/DOM manip (presentation, responsiveness) be done in JS (frontend) or in PHP (backend)”
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136458
T139378 - implement nearby keyword search - working on this for the Reading Department
Strong dependency on ops for map servers this quarter (Guillaume is coordinating)
We are helping the apps team by implementing geosearch

Discovery News

(Status below last updated 2016-06-28. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

Search
- Make BM25 algorithm the default
  - (with decrease in ZRR or engagement)
- Evaluate and devise plan for using cross-project indices, which would allow users to search across all projects in any given language.
Maps/Interactive
- Make <maplink> tag available for all wiki projects, and <mapframe> available everywhere except Wikipedia.
- Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
Portal
- Finish tests from previous quarter
- Graduate successful tests to production
- Graduate translated sister wiki project descriptive text into production.
- Continue to update article stats on a regular basis

Next Discovery team retrospectives: TBD (late July/early August)
Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled August 3
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
Next All-Discovery retro TBD (mid-October)