Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-05-31
Topics from the past
edit- Dan plans to put search goals/roadmap on-wiki once he is done with annual reviews.
- Dan will do this afternoon
- FDC review: Interactive plans were good, but metrics for success were slightly underdefined - Tomasz/Yuri to talk about that.
- Made progress. Maps team will work with Katie.
- FDC Comments about coordination of analysis across the organisation were raised - Dan should investigate.
- Seems to be being handled outside of Discovery (Dario)
- Dario is moving towards making the Research_FAQ on officewiki public to try to alleviate this
- Dan read over this FAQ and its characterisation of Discovery’s responsibilities and ways to get us to do things seem accurate to him
- Katie Horn will be Head of Discovery.
- Dan on vacation from 2nd June until 21st June (inclusive)
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Katie will be in SF on Thursday and Friday, June 2 and 3. There will be free time to meet between 1:30 and 4:30 on Friday, probably openly on the 5th floor. Add time to Katie’s calendar if you have different ideas.
- Submit any outstanding expense reports ASAP! (Fiscal year is ending)
- For search offsite, send to Katie and Dan
- Today is the last day to register with a big discount for the world maps conference in Brussels
Scrum of Scrums
editBlocked
- Portal update script https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135029
Dependencies which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are not longer a blocker)
- (none)
Are we blocking?
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
- Zero has been asking for Yuri’s help
- Graphs/maps spec.yaml need Yuri’s help
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
- English test is running now; others to follow
- (Maybe push TextCat to production)
- Update Elasticsearch
- Happening this week
- Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
- Won’t happen--elasticsearch removed that feature
- Run TextCat A/B test
- WDQS
- Add geocoordinate functionality
- We believe this is done
- Add geocoordinate functionality
- Maps/Interactive
- Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
- Hope to start switching templates within a week
- Create use case page for maps
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Conversation_about_interactive_map_use
- (That page could use additional work)
- Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
- Portal
- Run at least 3 A/B tests
- Two have been run so far; another one should start this week
- 3 more scheduled (tentatively)
- Qualtrics survey completed (how did visitor get to portal)
- Graduate at least 1 successful A/B test
- Pushed descriptive text for sister projects
- Will push language detection and re-sorting primary links this week
- Run at least 3 A/B tests
FYI
edit- Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled June 1
- Next Discovery retrospectives: Scheduled late May/early June
- Wikimania June 21-28
- All-Discovery retro maybe mid-to-late-July?