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Announcements, Information, Questions

CREDIT: Stas was the only presenter this month
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOj6nDbdPMA
Upcoming minor team shift (we will start to work on search results front end, within a couple weeks; public announcement will come soon)
Ops offsite September 26-30 in Barcelona
Stas created a nice demo of integrating WDQS and the vega graph designer: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F4346786

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 2016-08-09. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

Search
- Make BM25 algorithm the default
  - (No increase in zero results rate or decrease in search user engagement rate)
  - ON TRACK
- Evaluate and devise plan for using cross-project indices, which would allow users to search across all projects in any given language.
  - BEING DISCUSSED (check with Erik when he gets back)
- Release TextCat to production
  - Done
- Release the question mark handling
  - Done
- Update the search results page
  - ON TRACK Should start within a couple weeks
Maps/Interactive
- Make <maplink> tag available for all wiki projects, and <mapframe> available everywhere except Wikipedia.
  - ON TRACK
- Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
  - ON TRACK
Portal
- Graduate latest successful test to production - lang by article count dropdown for the new page layout
  - ON TRACK (should go live very soon)
- Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
  - ON TRACK
- Continue to update article stats on a regular basis (last updated: Aug 4)
  - ONGOING

Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled September 7
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
Next All-Discovery retro TBD (mid-October)