Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-06-20
Topics from the past
[edit]- Staff annual reviews: Deadline for managers to complete all 1:1 meetings with direct reports and provide written feedback in Namely. (2017-06-30)
- Submit your offsite/hackathon expense reports!!
- Deb volunteered to be an additional admin, with Chris, for the discovery and discovery-private mailing lists.
- Sister project snippets in the search results page was turned on Thursday, June 15
- Discovery will continue to send out weekly updates, and Chris will compile into the monthly Reading updates
- Announcement for Discovery team goals / updates went out 2017-06-13
Announcements, Information, Questions
[edit]- Future of Maps document is still a work in progress
- Preparing for Wikimania
Scrum of Scrums
[edit]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.)
- None
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 2017-06-20. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.
FY 2016-17 Q4 (Apr-Jun) goals: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q4_Goals#Discovery
- Improve search by researching and load testing machine learning to automatically re-rank search results
- Research and develop new models to determine which ones work best DONE
- Build out data munging and data pipeline to develop new models DONE
- Deploy automated model which matches current performance of manually-configured search result relevance NOT THIS Q?
- Begin performing load tests on new models to make sure they can be safely deployed to production SHOULD START SOON (on relforge)
- Improve search support for different languages by researching and deploying new language analyzers
- Perform research spikes to find new analyzers for different languages DONE
- Test new analyzers to see if they are improvements DONE
- Deploy new analyzers that are found to be an improvement DONE
- Re-index affected wikis (Ukrainian and Chinese) DONE
- Refine and test new design of search results page with occasional deployments
- Test new functionality with at least 2 A/B tests WILL DO ONE THIS WEEK
- Analyze tests and gather community feedback FINISHED UP ONE FROM Q3
- Roll out new functionality with small releases to production across all Wikipedias DONE
- Stabilize maps and graphs code base
- Stabilize and fix high priority bugs
- Only 2 remaining open tasks for minimum stabilization (disputed borders and header expiration)
- Stabilize and fix high priority bugs
FYI
[edit]- June 21: Research Showcase
- June 29: Monthly Metrics
- July 4: US holiday
- July 5: CREDIT showcase ??
- July 18: All-Discovery retro
- July 24 - August 4: WMF staff encouraged to work remotely
- There is another remote week or two when the office move happens
- Sep 18 - 29th
- There is another remote week or two when the office move happens
- Aug 15: WMF holiday
- Sep 4: US holiday
- OOO
- Erika OOO June 20-22 (WikiLead)
- Jan off July 3 - 7
- Guillaume on vacation from July 10 - 21st
- Paul off July 16 - 23 (vacation/camp)
- David (August: wikimania + vacation 2 weeks after the event, back on Aug 29)
- Deb Aug 8 - 14 Wikimania and Hackathon
- Stas Aug 10 - 17 Wikimania + Structured data offsite
- Paul off August 18 - 20 + travel (State of the Map)
- Paul off October 19 - 22 + travel (State of the Map US)
- Deb off October 19 - 20 for State of the Map US