Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-06-27

Topics from the past

• Staff annual reviews: Deadline for managers to complete all 1:1 meetings with direct reports and provide written feedback in Namely. (2017-06-30)
  • https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/FY_2016-17_Annual_Review_and_Retrospective
• Future of Maps document is still a work in progress
• Preparing for Wikimania
  • Add in any info for us to share:
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168748
  • Might need a business letter, people are asking travel and we should hear soon (Erika)

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Goals for Q1 2017-18 in progress, need to be posted by 6/30
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lbh-SYYkp2JZUmUCmDym6cIuJHra_nuzOTvhZqN0Wg8/edit#
• All-Discovery retrospective was discussed for July 18th, but is not actually on the calendar and might conflict with quarterly check-ins if it was. Reschedule?
• Last chance: Submit your offsite/hackathon expense reports!!

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.)

• None

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 2017-06-20. 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 MOVED TO NEXT QUARTER
  • Begin performing load tests on new models to make sure they can be safely deployed to production IN PROGRESS (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)

FYI

• June 29: Monthly Metrics
  • Info: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings
• July 4: US holiday
• July 5: CREDIT showcase
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
• 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
• Aug 15: WMF holiday
• Sep 4: US holiday
• OOO
  • Erika off July 3
  • Deb off July 3
  • Erik off July 3
  • Trey off July 3
  • 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