Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-11-15
Topics from the past
[edit]- Reminder about upcoming deployment interruptions
- Nov 21-25: No train (also no deploys that Wed-Fri)
- Dec 19-30: No deploys
- Jan 9: No train (dev summit/all-hands)
- Note new staff guidelines for behavior at events and on projects (office wiki)
Announcements, Information, Questions
[edit]- Dan is moving to Ireland! 7th March 2017. (He'll continue working in his current role.)
- Announced upcoming shared tabular/map data on Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Launching_shared_maps_and_data_on_Commons
- Product head meetings this week (new plan is to meet in person quarterly)
- File property search on Commons is well received by the communities.
- Dan is off 16th November.
- Interactive Team’s roadmap published: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery#Maps
Scrum of Scrums
[edit]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
[edit]Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)
[edit](Status below last updated 2016-11-15. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)
FY 2016-17 Q2 Key Results
[edit]https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals#Discovery
- Search
- Enable the backend for cross-project searches on all Wikimedia projects
- Back end: Load test (the real potential blocker) was deployed/undeployed, will be redeployed
- Front end: Reached out to communities for A/B tests; got one, want more. Meetings w/Nirzar about design are progressing
- Enrich the data stored in ElasticSearch to allow targeted improvements to result relevance (Migrate away from "all" field in Elasticsearch)
- Done for top 10 projects. Depending on analysis, might reindex wikis, or might have to fix space issue for some languages
- Quarterly Review: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uem20E4P_e94yTfWpX8wQkbV8cDuNkja913TDonYATs/edit
- Discovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ
- Enable the backend for cross-project searches on all Wikimedia projects
- Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
- Increase maps and graphs usage on Wikipedia
- Updating commons template increased usage a lot (overall requests up by 10x)
- Researching low uptake on ruwiki (fewer articles than hoped)
- Enable shareable Geoshapes and Tabular data storage on Commons
- Now enabled on beta labs (commons and other wikis)
- Hope to deploy widely next week
- Some progress on geojson; need to add support for maps and graphs
- Increase maps and graphs usage on Wikipedia
FYI
[edit]- Nov 16: Research Showcase (Wednesday)
- Nov 17: Monthly metrics (Thursday)
- Nov 24-25 Holiday (Thanksgiving)
- Dec 7: Next Showcase (“CREDIT”)
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
- Dec 26-30: Holiday
- Jan 5: Next All-Discovery retro
- Jan 9-11: Dev Summit (SF)
- Jan 12-13: All-hands (SF)
- Some of us not going to the Dev Summit will be coming in a day early
- Discovery dinner? :) +1+1 +1000