Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-06-07
Topics from the past
edit- Dan on vacation from 2nd June until 21st June (inclusive)
- Katie was in SF on Thursday and Friday, and met with team members
- Submit any outstanding expense reports ASAP! (Fiscal year is ending)
- For search offsite, send to Katie
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Adding a link to status updates in team infoboxes. Is this cool with everyone?
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Search
- Answer: Yes. Cool.
- Weekly code review hours https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E205
- Opportunity to get code reviewed, or to help review code
- Ops starting to think about an offsite--maybe October. Guillaume would attend.
Scrum of Scrums
editBlocked
- Portal update script blocked on ops https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135029
- Guillaume will check to see if we can help move it along
Dependencies which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are not longer a blocker)
- (none)
Are we blocking?
Discovery News
Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)
edit(Status below last updated 2016-06-07)
Q4 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
- DONE!
- Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
- Won’t happen--elasticsearch removed that feature
- Run TextCat A/B test
- WDQS
- Add geocoordinate functionality
- DONE!
- Add geocoordinate functionality
- Maps/Interactive
- Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
- (Still) 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)
- Writing up a “lessons learned” from this conversation
- Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
- Portal
- Run at least 3 A/B tests
- Two have been run so far; another one has started this week
- 2 more scheduled
- Qualtrics survey will be restarted to get more respondents (how did visitor get to portal)
- Graduated 2 successful A/B tests
- Pushed descriptive text for sister projects
- Pushed language detection and re-sorting primary links
- Run at least 3 A/B tests
FYI
edit- Next Discovery retrospectives: In progress last week and this week
- Wikimania June 21-28
- Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled July 7
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
- All-Discovery retro maybe mid-to-late-July?