Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-10-18

Topics from the past

• WMF values conversations; everyone is encouraged (not required) to sign up
  • Katie: very good experience! Join the conversation if you can!
  • Deb: Very interesting as well. Aligning our understanding make sense.
• Guillaume gave Elasticsearch presentation to our Ops team last Friday
  • Presentation was well received, interesting questions, lots of clarification.
  • Discovery might want to do something similar.
    • Some overlap with CREDIT
    • However, CREDIT limits presenters to 5 minutes, and there is no shared context

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Anything we should know about from the Quarterly Review?
  • everything is good, generally
  • Email sent to discovery-private containing some feedback
• From SoS: “Winter is coming... Annual reminder to please postpone risky rollouts till after December's fundraising campaign”
  • Cross-wiki search backend is getting less risky due to not merging the indices together in Q2
    • Frontend is a bit more risky, but only prototyping is planned
  • Interactive is risky
    • Map frame: we are confident
    • Tabular data space: we have the technology, but the steps to get there are not yet completely clear yet.
  • Portal: not risky at all (just maintenance for the most part)
  • Katie still need to talk to Greg to see what constraints we have
• Erika started this week!
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Scrum of Scrums

• Are we blocked?
  • None
• Are we blocking? (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/)
  • None

Discovery News

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

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update

(Status below last updated 2016-10-18. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

FY 2016-17 Q2 Key Results

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals#Discovery

• Search
  • Enable the backend for cross-project indices on all Wikimedia projects
  • Enrich the data stored in ElasticSearch to allow targeted improvements to result relevance (Migrate away from "all" field in Elasticsearch)
    • We are early in the quarter, so far so good
    • Quarterly Review: ** https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uem20E4P_e94yTfWpX8wQkbV8cDuNkja913TDonYATs/edit
    • Discovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ
• Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
  • Increase maps and graphs usage on Wikipedia
    • Once map frame is launched, we expect KPI to increase fast
  • Enable shareable Geoshapes and Tabular data storage on Commons

FYI

• Oct 27: Monthly metrics (Thursday)
• Oct 31: Gentle reminder to submit your proposals for Wikimedia Developer Summit. The deadline is 31 Oct for topic proposals.
  • Interactive needs to decide what specific areas to discuss with the community. Long term ideas: external data consumption. Short term goals: on-wiki data storage, integrating graphs/Polestar/...
• Nov 1: Spark Project sharing deadline
• Nov 2: Next Showcase (“CREDIT”)
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
• TBD: Next All-Discovery retro