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

Topics from the past

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Announcements, Information, Questions

• 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

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)

(Status below last updated 2016-06-21. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

Q4 Key Results

• 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

• 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