Topics from the past

Preparing for Wikimania (Aug 8 - 14)
- Add in any info for us to share:
  - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168748
  - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2805/
- Some stories to be written before the Structured Data on Commons offsite
- Montreal travel page: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel/Montreal_Travel_Information
Quarterly Reviews delivered
RfC for sister search, maybe move wikibooks to the top? Still need a definitive answer from the community (still waiting)

Announcements, Information, Questions

Remoting weeks this week and next week
Spark projects begin August 14th, what will you work on?
Tagging Phab boards with Program/Goal tags
- Phlogiston: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phlogiston
- http://phlogiston.wmflabs.org/

Scrum of Scrums

Are we blocked?

(7/20/17) WDQS abuse problem blocked by Ops, there is no solution for how a client can bring the service down and ops doesn’t want to accept the one solution proposed.

Guillaume has an idea, will work with Stas

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168816 thermal paste on elasticsearch, which is weathering performance issues in the meantime

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 FY 2017/18: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/presentation/d/1N41eNrz0vFHJamLkhQjSFCOSiDg-bKr5H3ROchqwVJU/edit?usp=sharing

FY 2017-18 Q1 (Jul-Sep) goals: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery#Projects

This status was last updated 2017-07-11 Completed/dropped goals are not shown.

Tech:Search Platform

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2017-18_Q1#Search_platform

Backend Search:

1. Implement advanced methodologies such as “learning to rank” machine learning techniques and signals to improve search result relevance across language Wikipedias.

Perform load tests and A/B tests on new models to make sure they can be safely deployed to production
When ready, deploy newly automated models which match (at a minimum) current performance of manually-configured search result relevance

2. Improve support for multiple languages by researching and deploying new language analyzers as they make sense to individual language wikis.

Perform research spikes to find new analyzers for different languages
Test new analyzers to see if they are improvements (Japanese and Vietnamese)
Deploy new / updated analyzers
Deploy analyzers in progress from last quarter (Hebrew)

WDQS: Wikidata Query Service goal for this quarter will be working on expanding category search in the query service, while also collecting SPARQL statistics; it will be maintained by Stas and Guillaume to support the continued growth and use of the service; the Analysis team will help with statistics.

Audiences:Readers:Discovery

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Audiences/2017-18_Q1_Goals#Readers

Frontend Search:

Finish up testing of the Explore Similar feature on search results page
- Analyze data and gather community feedback
- Request internationalization strings
- Deploy feature

Portal: Wikipedia.org Portal team will not have any dedicated goals this quarter other than continuing to maintain the page by fixing critical bugs and performing regular statistics and translations updates.

Maps: The Maps goal for this quarter is to finalize and deploy the new map style, as well as monitoring the service for critical bugs and increasing the frequency of OSM replication.

Analysis: The team will continue to work closely with the Search teams to analyze A/B tests and other assorted data; they will also prototype automated A/B test reports and investigate addition of Continuous Integration to their R codebases.

FYI

July 24 - August 4: all WMF staff encouraged to work remotely
- Also Sep 18 - 29 are all remote weeks when the SF office move happens
Aug 3: Readers metrics (quarterly) meeting
Aug 15: WMF holiday
Sep 4: US holiday
OOO
- Jan off (July 31 - Aug 2)
- Guillaume off 8/1 (national holiday)
- Erika off 7/31 - 8/4
- Erika 8/8-8/17 for Hackathon + Wikimania + Tech Mgmt F2F + SDoC Mtg
- David (August: wikimania + vacation 2 weeks after the event, back on Aug 29)
- Deb Aug 8 - 14 Wikimania, Hackathon & SDoC offsite
- Deb Aug 18 & 21 out
- Stas Aug 10 - 17 Wikimania + Structured data offsite
- Trey out Aug 7-15 (vacation + Wikimania + holiday)
- Trey out Aug 21-22 (vacation)
- Paul off August 18 - 20 + travel (State of the Map)
- Erika out 9/25-26 for Wikilead
- Erika out 10/3-10/4 for Agile Open NorCal conference
- Erika out 10/13 for Transformative Technology Conference
- Paul off October 19 - 22 + travel (State of the Map US)
- Deb off October 19 - 20 for State of the Map US