Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-06-21
Topics from the past
edit- (none)
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Erik will remain the tech lead for Q1
- Discovery will present at July metrics meeting (rather than June)
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
- Stas will work with Max to make sure the task contains enough information for anyone to understand it
- Kevin will set up a meeting to try to unblock this and find an owner
- “Should HTML formatting/DOM manip (presentation, responsiveness) be done in JS (frontend) or in PHP (backend)”
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
Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)
edit(Status below last updated 2016-06-14. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)
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; had to be restarted; will be turned off Thursday
- (Maybe push TextCat to production)
- Run TextCat A/B test
- Maps/Interactive
- Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
- Switching templates in progress, done on enwv for most functionality; cleaning up; ru migrated; may reach out to other communities
- Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
FYI
edit- 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