Topics from the past

CREDIT showcase ~~is tomorrow~~ (was last week)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfBQ6H14_SM
SPARQL workshop Thursday
- https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/SPARQL_workshop
- Feedback was positive
Sept 13: Discernatron & BM25 demo / luncheon
- SF gets food, but otherwise remote friendly
Reading web is “Improving search exp in mobile web”
- Dan will discuss w/Reading product mgmt this week
Reading web is “Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis”
- Dan will discuss w/Reading product mgmt this week

Announcements, Information, Questions

Discernatron lunch tomorrow!
Product/Tech meetings in SF this week
Next Monday (Sept 19) is both “Talk Like a Pirate Day”, and in some countries, a federal holiday (Guillaume is off next Monday - and not today like some people seem to believe)
<maplink> was launched everywhere
Ops offsite Sept 26-30, Guillaume will have limited availability
Yuri: Thanks to Stas for the impressive “governors” demo query
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/maplink#/maplink/0

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.)

(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 (tons of village pump outreach last week)
Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
- Make <maplink> tag available for all wiki projects, and <mapframe> available everywhere except Wikipedia.
  - <maplink> DONE!
  - <mapframe> Have solution for VE blocker
- 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. Delayed by Discernatron work. Still on track.
- Continue to update article stats on a regular basis (last updated: Aug 4)
  - On track

Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled October 5
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
Next All-Discovery retro October 10