Topics from the past

Chris out [this] week (and next Monday)
- Benoit is watching discussions in my absence

Announcements, Information, Questions

CREDIT showcase is tomorrow
SPARQL workshop Thursday
Discernatron & BM25 demo / luncheon on Sept 13th
- SF gets food, but otherwise remote friendly

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.)

Reading web is “Improving search exp in mobile web”
- Dan will take a look
Reading web is “Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis”
- Dan will take a look

(Status below last updated 2016-09-06. 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)
  - Seems to be on track
- Evaluate and devise plan for using cross-project indices, which would allow users to search across all projects in any given language.
  - Seems to be on track
Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
- Make <maplink> tag available for all wiki projects, and <mapframe> available everywhere except Wikipedia.
  - <maplink> almost went out last week; hopefully this week
  - <mapframe> need to resolve issues raised by editing
- Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
  - Should deliver something by the end of quarter
Portal
- Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
  - Have been blocked, but not any more. On track.
- Continue to update article stats on a regular basis (last updated: Aug 4)
  - On track

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