Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-10-11

Topics from the past

• Reading web
  • is “Improving search exp in mobile web”
  • is “Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis”
  • Deb/Dan/Jan met w/Reading folks
  • Agreed that search on mobile would be taken care of by Reading teams
  • Nirzar/Olga agreed to follow-up if anything pertinent is happening
• RelEng offsite Oct 17-21
  • So no train deploys that week
  • Kevin will be mostly unavailable
    • Guillaume will facilitate next week’s checkin
• Gentle reminder to submit your proposals for Wikimedia Developer Summit. The deadline is 31 Oct for topic proposals.
• Spark Project sharing deadline is Nov 1.

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Anything the whole group should know from the ops offsite?
  • Nothing specific. Good ops-y discussions.
• Weird spike in our metrics graph, noticed by Mikhail
  • Nothing newsworthy
• WMF values conversations; everyone is encouraged (not required) to sign up
• FYI: Yuri will be Discovery’s substitute rep for Scrum of Scrums this week (Oct 12)
• Dan, Stas, and Chris attended Wikiconference North America 2016
  • Lots of wikidata-related talks
  • Talks about structured data on commons
  • Knowledge Engine retrospective (apparently went well)
  • Mxn gave a maps+wdqs talk; there were other maps-related talks
• Guillaume will be presenting Elasticsearch to our Ops team this Friday.

Scrum of Scrums

Are we blocked?

• None

Are we blocking? (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/)

• None

Other dependencies (in either direction) which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are progressing smoothly, have no urgency, etc.)

• None

Discovery News

• See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)

(Status below last updated 2016-10-11. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

FY 2016-17 Q1 Key Results

NOTE: Q2 goals will show up here next week

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q1_Goals#Discovery

• Search
  • Make BM25 algorithm the default
    • (No increase in zero results rate or decrease in search user engagement rate)
    • We are close to deploying for some languages; other languages have issues with word breaks
• Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
  • Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
    • Was deployed shortly after quarter ended
• Portal
  • Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
    • Was pushed to production on Oct 11, 2016

FYI

• Next All-Discovery retro October 13
• Discovery Quarterly Review (presenting Q1 goal results) Monday, Oct 17
• Monthly metrics Thursday October 27
• Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled November 2
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT