Wikimedia Search Team/Meeting minutes/2015-05-04

2015-05-04

Checkins

• Erik:
  • Mostly finished testing. Now elastic search tests only take 5-6 minutes
  • Still working on intermittent failures
  • Initially non-voting, but hopefully eventually voting (to automatically reject patches)
  • Not sure what comes after that--will talk to Nik
• Max
  • Worked w/Yuri, got tile server to work; it displays maps
  • This week: Get server/datasource to “mostly work”
  • Then work on proof of concept using maps (probably initially a user script on wp)
• Stas
  • Mostly working on bugs/stability on WD export, and import into core engine
  • New ontology patches finally landing on test, so updating importer to be compatible
    • New ontology will land this Wednesday (or next Wednesday)
• Yuri
  • Worked w/Max to get tile server working. Will demo something soon.
  • Now working on javascript service and extra features to make something user-visible
• Dan
  • Diving into data. 4% of page views to all of our sites go to wp.org.
  • Search metrics: bug fixed, but otherwise no progress
• Tomasz
  • This is the first week fully available to this team
  • Working on hiring, metrics
  • Hoping to present early data findings within about 3 weeks
• Guiseppe
  • Waiting for Nik on puppetization
• Moiz
  • Working on hiring
  • Needs to deep dive on Oliver’s data, looking at what we should do on front page
  • Will create resource guide for team (style gudes, etc)
  • Meeting w/Dan and Wes about possible early user-facing work
• Wes
  • Reminder: Annual reviews
  • Added slide to deck regarding privacy stats
  • Nik worked on budget stuff for hardware
• Kevin
  • Meetings regarding process
  • Scheduled retrospective

Workboard Walkthrough

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/search-team/

• Not necessary yet; will probably become part of the agenda later

Scrum of Scrums

• Are we blocked?
  • For tile server: Need 1 TB server, can be in labs. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97638
• Are we blocking?
  • No
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

Info/To Discuss

• Kevin will be out Monday May 11
  • Will arrange for someone to facilitate the Monday checkin
• Initial WDQS release (0.0.1) Status https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96579
  • Tentative target was “Mid-May”, but might slip toward late May
  • Hope to be through most of the bugs this week
  • Need to define success of the release
    • Dan: We need some kind of metrics instrumentation
  • Kevin will create new task to just release the software: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98037
  • Others will add blocking tasks so we can create a solid plan
• Search metrics results--Anything new?
  • Oliver presented initial results for homepage: http://ironholds.org/misc/homepage_presentation.html
• Hackathon (May 23-25)
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2015/Search_and_discovery
• Review time has begun:
  • https://office.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=WMF_2014_-_2015_Annual_Review_and_Retrospective