Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-08-09

Topics from the past

• Reminder: Do expense reports promptly! (always)

Announcements, Information, Questions

• CREDIT: Stas was the only presenter this month
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOj6nDbdPMA
• Upcoming minor team shift (we will start to work on search results front end, within a couple weeks; public announcement will come soon)
• Ops offsite September 26-30 in Barcelona
• Stas created a nice demo of integrating WDQS and the vega graph designer: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F4346786

Scrum of Scrums

Are we blocked?

• None

Are we blocking? (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/)

• None

Other dependencies (in either direction) which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are progressing smoothly, have no urgency, etc.)

• “Should HTML formatting/DOM manip (presentation, responsiveness) be done in JS (frontend) or in PHP (backend)”
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136458
• T139378 - implement nearby keyword search - working on this for the Reading Department
  • First iteration done and deployed
  • Will wait for feedback and see if any more changes are required
• Strong dependency on ops for map servers this quarter (Guillaume is coordinating)
  • Ops are OK with enabling Kartographer on small wikis

Discovery News

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

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)

(Status below last updated 2016-08-09. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

FY 2016-17 Q1 Key Results

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q1_Goals#Discovery

• Search
  • Make BM25 algorithm the default
    • (No increase in zero results rate or decrease in search user engagement rate)
    • ON TRACK
  • Evaluate and devise plan for using cross-project indices, which would allow users to search across all projects in any given language.
    • BEING DISCUSSED (check with Erik when he gets back)
  • Release TextCat to production
    •  Done
  • Release the question mark handling
    •  Done
  • Update the search results page
    • ON TRACK Should start within a couple weeks
• Maps/Interactive
  • Make <maplink> tag available for all wiki projects, and <mapframe> available everywhere except Wikipedia.
    • ON TRACK
  • Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
    • ON TRACK
• Portal
  • Graduate latest successful test to production - lang by article count dropdown for the new page layout
    • ON TRACK (should go live very soon)
  • Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
    • ON TRACK
  • Continue to update article stats on a regular basis (last updated: Aug 4)
    • ONGOING

FYI

• Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled September 7
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
• Next All-Discovery retro TBD (mid-October)