Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-07-27
- Welcome to Mikhail, our new Data Analyst (who loves machine learning)
- James (and Nik) last day July 24
- Wikimania debrief
- Great Discovery presentation. Good participation from audience. Possibly not recorded.
- Maps is running on production. The tile service seems to be eagerly anticipated.
- Dan met a guy in charge of the wikimedia portal, who is in the SF Bay area, so we will follow up later.
- A lot of positive responses to our team. External visibility.
- Dan will present a follow-up at the end of August
- Moiz talked with analytics folks; we should look into doing “trending articles”
- “Scalable Event System” planning has begun
- Oliver will be there to represent Discovery, but others are welcome to participate as well
- Franz from AltaVista (Oliver will talk about this)
- Professor interested in doing research around our search engine. Oliver handling initial discussions, then will bring in Dan/Tomasz/Wes/whoever.
- Wes heard from DuckDuckGo; will send a summary. They are interested in infoboxes.
- Trey did research; found that some of our zero results are legitimate due to weird input.
- Front end hiring: Interviewing 3 candidates this week.
- Need a new volunteer (which is Stas - at least for now, we may do quarterly rotation afterwards)
- Are we blocked?
- Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
- Not really SoS blockers, but cross-departmental dependencies
- Ops Q1 goal multi-datacenter (we will assist upon request)
- Not really SoS blockers, but cases where Discovery members are needed by other projects:
- Charts security issue (Yuri, following up on pre-reorg obligations)
- Wikipedia zero (Yuri is still assigned there part-time)
- Transparency report (Moiz, following up on pre-reorg obligations)
- Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?
