Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-11-23

Announcements, Information, Questions edit

  • Short week - Holiday Nov 26-27 (Thurs/Fri)
  • Analysis team hasn’t been sufficiently notified of changes to data-related backend stuff, leading to missing data on the dashboards.
  • Drafting a Discovery future RFC page - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/RFC
  • Deployment Freeze
    • We committed to do a deployment freeze on 1st/2nd December
      • This is because these days are the biggest days of the big fundraiser
    • We committed to do a deployment freeze from 21st December - 8th January
      • This is because of the holidays and the all staff on 7th/8th January
    • Answer on whether we need a bigger code freeze is inconclusive so far; Dan will inform team if the answer comes back that we do
  • Portal
    • Event logging went out
    • Need to wait until we have more data before we start drawing conclusions on what’s next
  • Quick survey
  • Hiring
  • Maps
    • geohack