Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2016-03-08
Topics from the past
edit- Annual planning (submitted to finance on Friday Mar 4)
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ouvgA_wH41veBrcrJpJ6mnBkVjV156f1EpEvGHVjoOU/edit#gid=2040510228
- Q4 goals (draft is due on Friday Mar 4)
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals
- Dan will list team member assignments on mw.o Discovery page
- DONE
- Discovery weekly status reports (Chris)
- In progress
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Worth spending more effort on documentation (e.g. TextCat)?
- Will discuss next week when Tomasz, Dan, and Deb are here
- Portal team had good meeting about roadmap and next quarter’s plans
- Tentatively leaning toward showing trending articles
- Maps got deployed to wikivoyage
- WDQS front end can display maps
- Quicksurvey: Met w/Adam and team; will go with the simple option that will be slower for selected users. Need to sync w/reading and legal about privacy link. Should happen next week.
Scrum of Scrums
editBlocked
- Stas and Yuri will talk to ops about SPARQL query caching
- Discussed; found bug which ops will fix
- Open question about how long cache should live
- SVG sanitizer security review (graphs)
- Maps hardware
- Waiting for ops reply
Blocking
- Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)
editQ3 goals (excluding those that are done):
edit- Completion suggester: Roll out to full production: Plans being worked out
- Review ES configuration: In progress
- Quick survey for search results: At risk
- Portal: Graduate at least one to production: In progress; taking longer than expected
- Portal: Run 3 A/B tests: At risk (one has been run, need two more)
- WDQS: Research and understand Geospatial: In progress. Might even get it implemented.
- Maps: Wikivoyage in all languages: In progress (most major ones are done)
Q4 goals
edit- draft should be finished
FYI
edit- Next Discovery retrospective: March 21 (but the format might change before them)
- Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): April 6
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT