Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-02-21
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[edit]- Annual planning is underway (The first draft is due by 22nd February)
- Brainstorming doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZzTHJOrqxU7-guCvPmjJ8tgZf7eY8C-Gg1xp0JHFLoU
- Dan will share first draft of goals with Discovery
- Registering for Hackathon is open (all Discovery members are approved)
- Assume Thursday arrival at Hackathon hotel (leaving the offsite hotel on Thursday)
- Firefox might lose support for hangouts at the end of this month
Announcements, Information, Questions
[edit]- [Engineering] “Analytics Cluster Hadoop Upgrade and Downtime: February 28 2017”
- Collab Jam this week
- Budget-minded folks from across the WMF are meeting to share draft annual plans and resolve cross-departmental dependencies
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.)
- Kartotherian (maps) and Node6: task T150354
Discovery News
[edit]Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)
[edit]Discovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ
This status was last updated 2017-02-21. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.
FY 2016-17 Q3 (Jan-Mar) Key Results
[edit]https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q3_Goals#Discovery
- upgrading to Elasticsearch 5
- Upgrade search cluster to Elasticsearch 5
- In progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154501
- Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
- In progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154503
- Upgrade search cluster to Elasticsearch 5
- deploying new language analysers
- Perform research spikes to find new analysers for different languages
- Polish is done; Chinese underway https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158202
- Test new analysers to see if they are improvements
- Polish is done; Chinese planned https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158203
- Deploy new analysers that are found to be an improvement
- Deployment of Polish is planned https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158682
- Perform research spikes to find new analysers for different languages
- cross-wiki searching
- Have a working prototype in Labs
- Done
- Run at least 2 A/B tests on Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias
- A/B/C test is underway: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149806
- Have a working prototype in Labs
FYI
[edit]- Mar 1: CREDIT showcase
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
- Mar 12: US Daylight Saving Time starts
- Mar 13: WMF Holiday(!)
- Mar 16 Next All-Discovery retro
- April 14: WMF Holiday(!)
- May 14-18: Discovery offsite in Vienna (right before the hackathon)
- May 19-21: Hackathon in Vienna (right after the offsite)