Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-04-19

Topics from the past

• Hiring: Moving forward with analyst hire (it is posted). We also plan to hire an engineering manager (Tomasz will work on JD).

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Data center switchover test started today. Please keep an eye on any services you are responsible for.
  • Discovery stuff seems to be OK so far (just some minor issues)
• Please check your info on the office contact list wiki page (general reminder)
• FYI: Discussion about Mediawiki hash fragment router
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114007
• Ongoing reminder: Submit items to the Weekly Status Updates!
• Moiz will be leaving the foundation at the end of this month
• Annual reviews kick off this week. Pick your peer reviewers!
  • Follow the guidance about including someone outside your normal circle
  • Keep track of who YOU agreed to review!
• Quick survey: Portal team has completed its part. We got external signoff.

Scrum of Scrums

Blocked

• NOTHING!

Dependences which don’t need to be called out as “blocked”

• NOTHING!

Blocking

• Are we blocking?  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

Discovery News

• See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)

Q4 Key Results

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discovery
• Search
  • Run TextCat A/B test
  • (Maybe push TextCat to production)
  • Update Elastic Search
  • Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
• WDQS
  • Add geocoordinate functionality
• Maps/Interactive
  • Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
  • Create use case page for maps
• Portal
  • Run at least 3 A/B tests
  • Graduate at least 1 successful A/B test

FYI

• Next Discovery retrospectives: Scheduled April 18-22
• Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled May 12 (Thursday)
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT