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Announcements, Information, Questions

Feel free to book your offsite/hackathon travel (see email)
[wikitech-l]: Google Summer of Code:
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017
[wmfall] Staff are encouraged to work remotely for 2 weeks, July 24-Aug 4
[engineering] Puppet manifests can be tested locally before using the puppet compiler or trying them in labs or a production canary
[Wikitech-l] Prague Pre-Hackathon May 12-14
- mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Prehackathon_Prague
[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimaps User Group
Reminder: This coming Monday, March 13, is a WMF holiday
Reminder: Daylight Saving Time (aka “summer time”) starts March 12 in 98% of the US; March 26 in much of Europe
- Many meetings are probably locked to SF time; if any times become especially awkward during the transition, feel free to request/propose different times
- Political sidebar: “Why is daylight saving time still a thing???”
Should we invite Paul to these meetings?
- General support. Kevin will consult w/Katie and will invite Paul unless we realize it wouldn't be appropriate
Updates on plans for maps/interactive team?
- Dan is out; Katie has been out; Erika is continuing to try to resolve/get answers
Reminder: If you want to provide direct input regarding Product department conversations, let Stillwell know asap

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.)

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.

upgrading to Elasticsearch 5
- Upgrade search cluster to Elasticsearch 5
  - In progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154501
  - Proposed release date March 13
- Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
  - In progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154503
  - Expected to follow 1-2 weeks after ES 5 update
deploying new language analysers
- Perform research spikes to find new analysers for different languages
  - Polish is done; Chinese is done https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158202
- Test new analysers to see if they are improvements
  - Polish is done; Chinese underway https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158203
- Deploy new analysers that are found to be an improvement
  - Deployment of Polish is expected after ES 5 release https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158682
cross-wiki searching
- Run at least 2 A/B tests on Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias
  - A/B/C test ended: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149806
Interactive
- Stabilize the code...won’t necessarily end at the quarter boundary