Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-03-21

Topics from the past

• Book your offsite/hackathon travel (see email)
• 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

Announcements, Information, Questions

• FYI: Movement strategy conversations (cycle 1) are running until April 15
• [wikitech-l] Starting in April 2017, MediaWiki will end Grade A support for browsers that do not implement ECMAScript 5 JavaScript (e.g. IE 9)
• Question about booking hotel for hackathon/offsite
  • Just fill out the travel request; if you don’t need hotels before or after the events, you shouldn’t need to do anything special
  • Rosters/manifests haven’t been published yet; when they are, check to make sure your information is accurate
• Question: Any updates from management about future of maps or potential Product re-org?
  • Maps future depends on annual planning process, so no decisions yet
  • Next step in re-org should be for Anna to post suggestions, ideas, proposals, etc. on wiki, and announce.
• Question: Status of design position hiring?
  • We are interviewing candidates. No other news.

Scrum of Scrums

Are we blocked?

• None

Are we blocking?

• 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: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150354

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 2017-03-14. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.

Preview of FY 2016-17 Q4 (Apr-Jun) goals: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q4_Goals#Discovery

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
    • 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
    • A/B test currently running, will end March 24
• Stabilize maps and graphs code base
  • Won’t necessarily end at the quarter boundary

FYI

• Mar 26: Europe Daylight Saving Time starts
• April 5: CREDIT showcase
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
• 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)
• July?? TBD: Next All-Discovery retro
• July 24-August 4: WMF staff encouraged to work remotely