Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-03-22
Topics from the past
edit- Reminder: Submit items for the Status Discovery updates
- Portal dashboard has not yet shown increase in searching which we were expecting; too early to tell
- Still haven’t seen a big change: Mikhail is working on a phab task for it
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Update/reminder about new backlog boards in phab
- Expect workboard changes "soonish"
- Reminder: Update calendars to reflect any time off/unavailability
- Analysis and maps teams have had retros; 25 minutes is short, but otherwise good
Scrum of Scrums
editBlocked
- SPARQL query caching still an issue but not a blocker; really just an ops issue
- New WDQS problem appears to be related to varnish; Stas will follow up https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127014
- SVG sanitizer security review (graphs)
- Maps hardware
- Stalled waiting on finance
- Elastic hardware
- Might be moving?
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- Quick survey for search results: Unlikely to be completed
- Portal: Run 3 A/B tests: At risk (we ran an a/b/c test and plan to run one more starting today)
- Portal: Question about whether the lack of impact of the work that was pushed to production should count as a success
- Maps: Wikivoyage in all languages: Deployed but adoption of German and Dutch is blocked on community ???
Q4 goals
edit- draft is up: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discovery
- Dan needs to cut them down; will schedule office hours
- WDQS and maps still don’t have goals, so those teams should add candidates
- Proposal to cut analysis goal, reflecting the new team size
FYI
edit- Next Discovery retrospective: team retrospectives are in progress
- Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): April 6
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT