Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-06-14

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Topics from the past

Submit any outstanding expense reports ASAP! (Fiscal year is ending)
- For search offsite, send to Katie and Dan
- Might already be too late

Announcements, Information, Questions

Kartographer (maps) got deployed to english wikivoyage
This afternoon, Mikhail is giving a talk about graphs and data (which will be recorded)

Scrum of Scrums

Blocked

Portal update script blocked on ops https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135029
- Guillaume will check to see if we can help move it along
- Stas will work with Max to make sure the task contains enough information for anyone to understand it

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/

Discovery News

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

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)

(Status below last updated 2016-06-14)

Q4 Key Results

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discovery
Search
- Run TextCat A/B test
  - English test is running now; needs to be restarted; 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
WDQS
- Add geocoordinate functionality
  - This is done
Maps/Interactive
- Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
  - Switching templates in progress, done on enwv; cleaning up; others to follow
- Create use case page for maps
  - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Conversation_about_interactive_map_use
  - With help from Chris, the page is now done enough
  - Wrote a “lessons learned” from this conversation
Portal
- Run at least 3 A/B tests
  - Three have been run - yay!
  - Qualtrics survey has been 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

FYI

Wikimania June 21-28
Next Discovery team retrospectives: Scheduled June 30-July 7
Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled July 7
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
Next All-Discovery retro July 11

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