Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-05-03
Topics from the past
edit- Anything to discuss for Moiz transition?
- User Experience Engineers are feeling well supported
- Discussions with Abbey about Maps research
- Reminder: Annual reviews!
- Req holding international contractors will follow the regular reviews process minus the review packet needing to be approved by SafeGuard
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Conversation on interactive maps on Wikipedia has started! Good community response already. OSM volunteers even put together a preliminary “Welcome to Wikipedia users” on their wiki.
- Chris has been doing a great job supporting community broadcast and discussion. No need to increase resourcing
- New footer A/B test on wikipedia.org has been deployed (May 3): https://www.wikipedia.org/#descriptive-text-b
- Portal team updated the stats for the wiktionary.org portal site (May 3)
- FYI: no other portal stats needed updating at this time
- Tabular data is in active discussion
- Commons:Village pump: Tabular data storage for Commons?
Scrum of Scrums
editBlocked
- By Security: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129426 (json-schema, needed for maps) - done
Dependences which don’t need to be called out as “blocked”
No longer a blocker
- Issue while installing new elasticsearch servers (Chris has about 60 servers arriving, it will take some time) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133772
- Wrong SSD in wdqs100[12]: same, bandwidth of Chris is limited - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120712
Blocking
- Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
Discovery News
Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)
editQ4 Key Results
edit- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discovery
- Search
- Run TextCat A/B test
- (Maybe push TextCat to production)
- Update Elasticsearch
- 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
edit- Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled May 12 (Thursday)
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
- Next Discovery retrospectives: TBD late May