Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-12-13

Topics from the past

• Erika volunteered to facilitate/scribe this meeting this week
• Reminder about upcoming deployment interruptions
  • Dec 19-30: No deploys
  • Jan 9: No train (dev summit/all-hands)
• Community Wishlist Survey is open for voting. “WMF staff members who are also active contributors are welcome to vote; please use your volunteer account.“

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Guillaume out Jan 4-6

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)

Quarterly Review: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uem20E4P_e94yTfWpX8wQkbV8cDuNkja913TDonYATs/edit

Discovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ

This status was last updated 2016-12-06. 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
  • Both goals are “done enough”
• Interactive: Maps/Graphs...
  • Increase maps and graphs usage on Wikipedia
    • Done, but continuing to improve metrics
  • Enable shareable Geoshapes and Tabular data storage on Commons
    • Not a goal so much as a task

FYI

• Dec 26-30: Holiday
• Jan 2: Holiday
• Jan: NO Showcase (“CREDIT”)
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
• 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
• Feb 1: CREDIT showcase
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT