Topics from the past

Should discuss State of the Maps *next* week
Daisy presented Wednesday on portal research during Research Showcase
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3262&v=eZgqzVuRDRs

Announcements, Information, Questions

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
- First iteration done and deployed
- Will wait for feedback and see if any more changes are required
Strong dependency on ops for map servers this quarter (Guillaume is coordinating)
- Ops are OK with enabling Kartographer on small wikis

(Status below last updated 2016-07-26. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

Search
- Make BM25 algorithm the default
  - (with decrease in ZRR or increase in engagement)
- Evaluate and devise plan for using cross-project indices, which would allow users to search across all projects in any given language.
- Release TextCat to production
- Release the question mark handling
- Update the search results page
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
- Graduate successful tests to production - lang by article count dropdown
- Graduate translations for 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)
- Should get scheduled today
Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled August 3
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
Next All-Discovery retro TBD (mid-October)