Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-09-08

Topics from last week

WDQS announcement status
- Yes, it was announced
Offsite ready for booking travel?
- YES! Email was sent with instructions for setting up travel

If you don’t plan to attend the Jan all staff offsite, let your manager know ASAP
- They are still soliciting ideas for themes for the all-staff event
Agenda for Discovery offsite is under development
- Try to coordinate arrival in Orlando, so we can carpool to Canaveral
Maps team is in final planning for a maps beta announcement
- Working with a Community Liaison
Plans underway to get a full-time CL person for Discovery
Have hired one front-end developer; second is in progress
Data analysts are becoming a thing in other departments
Yuri would like some data analysis help with maps and also with graphs
- VE can now edit graphs
Good progress updating search cluster docs (mostly Erik)
We shared our plans with Denny(?) at Google, and he likes what he heard/saw
Dan/Tomasz met with apps team about deep linking; create more seamless experience on iOS
- Asked iOS team to set up metrics so we know how much traffic is coming through that way

Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?
- Android team reported:
  - “Better search prioritization; when searching for ‘obama’, the Barack Obama article now appears before ‘I Got a Crush... on Obama’”
  - “Nearby maps beta release coming up”
    - Yuri and Max will talk to them

Are we blocked?
- Security completed the Kafka security review (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109384)
  - Patches (including upstream) are in; service should start working next week (around the 15th)
Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
- VE Bug caused by search results (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796)
  - Brad has OK’d Erik’s latest proposed solution; engineering work on it hasn't started yet

(How are we doing; any current or imminent work to improve them)

Deploy Maps to Production
- Has been deployed; cleaning up loose ends
Deploy WDQS to Production
- Has been deployed; cleaning up loose ends
Reducing Zero results
- Goal has a “Yellow” status
- High priority to get the next test (suggester) rolled out
  - Patch needs to be reviewed today, so A/B test will go live Thursday
Defining Satisfaction metric
- Quantitative: We have a plan, which will be URL-based but won’t break caching
- Qualitative: Need to put a survey on search results for subset of users
- Meeting with duckduckgo (next week?) about how to track satisfaction
Measuring API usage
- Completed.