Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-06-28

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Topics from the past edit

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Announcements, Information, Questions edit

Deb will be product owner for search starting in Q1 (see email for details)
Several people will be taking vacations in July/August. Those who do will update their calendar accordingly.
This coming Monday (July 4) is a WMF holiday

Scrum of Scrums edit

Blocked

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Dependencies which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are not longer a blocker)

“Should HTML formatting/DOM manip (presentation, responsiveness) be done in JS (frontend) or in PHP (backend)”
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136458
- Discussion is ongoing; input is welcome from everyone in the tech community
- Looks like it might have to be done on the front end

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) edit

(Status below last updated 2016-06-21. 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, French, Spanish, Italian, and German tests are running now; had to be restarted; will be turned off Thursday
- (Maybe push TextCat to production)
Maps/Interactive
- Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
  - Mostly done on enwv; cleaning up
  - ru migrated, de migrating
  - Should reach out to other communities with a simple informational note on village pump
Re-confirmed that the Portal "run 3 tests and put one into production" goal has been completed

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

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