Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-02-07

Topics from the past

• Dev Summit and all-hands organizers have asked for feedback via surveys (see email)
• We are starting the annual planning process
  • Brainstorming notes, please add your ideas: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZzTHJOrqxU7-guCvPmjJ8tgZf7eY8C-Gg1xp0JHFLoU (The first draft is due by 22nd February)

Announcements, Information, Questions

• I canceled 2 meetings on Feb 20, since it is a holiday (Search standup and Interactive standup/planning)
• Reminder to contribute to (or start) a discussion at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Experimentation_Time
  • Kevin will research why he put this back on the agenda
• Apologies for the false-start in scheduling the next all-Discovery retrospective
• Registering for Hackathon is open
  • Assume Thursday "arrival" at the hackathon
  • Dan will figure out how to arrange for visas
  • Everyone in Discovery is approved to go, so please register
• Developer Wishlist voting now open
• Wikicite (currently scheduled directly after Hackathon)
  • Should anyone from Discovery go?
    • If you want to go, or think someone should go, talk to your manager
• Update about Collab Jam (Feb 22-24)
  • For annual planning, WMF deptartments will gather to share/discuss/plan cross-department dependencies
  • Focus is product managers/budget owners

Dan will be on vacation:

• Wed 22nd - Thu 23rd Feb
• Mon 27th Feb - Thu 2nd Mar
• Mon 6th Mar - Fri 10th Mar

Scrum of Scrums

Are we blocked?

• None

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

• Kartotherian (maps) and Node6: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150354

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)

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

This status was last updated 2017-01-31. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.

FY 2016-17 Q3 (Jan-Mar) Key Results

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q3_Goals#Discovery

• upgrading to Elasticsearch 5
  • Upgrade search cluster to Elasticsearch 5
  • Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
• deploying new language analysers
  • Perform research spikes to find new analysers for different languages
  • Test new analysers to see if they are improvements
  • Deploy new analysers that are found to be an improvement
• cross-wiki searching
  • Have a working prototype in Labs
  • Run at least 2 A/B tests on Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias

FYI

• Feb 20: Holiday
• Mar 1: CREDIT showcase
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
• Mar 13: Next All-Discovery retro
• May 14-18: Discovery offsite in Vienna (right before the hackathon)
• May 19-21: Hackathon in Vienna