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Announcements, Information, Questions

Add to the list of code repos we maintain, at the bottom of the Discovery page
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery#Code
Eng mgr hiring status: Initial phone screens to start soon; we have a stack of resumes
Recent/upcoming WMF blog posts related to Discovery work; have been well-received so far

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 (in our ‘done’ column)
- Will wait for feedback and see if any more changes are required

(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)
- Evaluate and devise plan for using cross-project indices, which would allow users to search across all projects in any given language.
- 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 latest successful test to production - lang by article count dropdown for the new page layout
- Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
- Continue to update article stats on a regular basis (last updated: Aug 4)

Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled September 7
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
Next All-Discovery retro TBD (mid-October)
Guillaume has referred someone for our Engineering manager opening.