Topics from the past

Feel free to book your offsite/hackathon travel (see email)
- Note request to check out Sunday (at the end of the hackathon) if possible
- Note that we’ll stay at the offsite hotel Thursday night
[Wikitech-l] Prague Pre-Hackathon May 12-14
- mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Prehackathon_Prague
- Seems to have some topics relevant to Discovery
Reminder: Daylight Saving Time (aka “summer time”) is in effect for 98% of the US, but not yet for Europe (March 26)...watch your calendar closely for shifting meetings
Should we invite Paul to these meetings? Yes. Done.
Updates on plans for maps/interactive team?
- Longer-term plans are being handled as part of annual planning

Announcements, Information, Questions

SoS: Community Tech added a CirrusSearch "source" to Massviews https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159858
[Engineering] [Breaking Change] MediaWiki-Vagrant now defaults to Debian Jessie
Revert removal of SpecialSearchNogomatch and deprecate for removal properly - issues with core. Erik will take a look.
FYI: iOS team is rolling out a beta app that uses Apple’s maps, because using our map tiles would be difficult
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/Maps_service

Are we blocked?

Are we blocking?

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
  - Release started March 13 (should be done on March 20 or 21)
- 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
Researching and deploying new language analysers
- Perform research spikes to find new analysers for different languages
  - Polish, Chinese, Ukrainian are 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
Stabilize maps and graphs code base
- Won’t necessarily end at the quarter boundary