Topics from the past

Thanks GL for filling in with facilitation last week!
WMF values conversations; everyone is encouraged (not required) to sign up
Quarterly review went well, generally
From SoS: “Winter is coming... Annual reminder to please postpone risky rollouts till after December's fundraising campaign”
- TODO: Katie still needs to talk to Greg to see what constraints we have
Erika started (last) week!
From [wikitech-l]: O’Reilly has released several ebooks at zero cost

Announcements, Information, Questions

TPG shadow: Natalia will be joining Discovery meetings for the next couple weeks
Cubs are in the world series (first time in 71 yrs)
Will there be any train interruptions through the rest of the year?
- No details at this point
Mikhail will present at Metrics this Thursday

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 2016-10-11. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

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

Oct 27: Monthly metrics (Thursday)
Oct 24 - Nov 11: Dan will be in the UK for work visa renewal
- Oct 24 - Oct 28: Dan’s availability is very sketchy for this week
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
Jan 5: Next All-Discovery retro