Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-08-30
Topics from the past
edit- Add to the list of code repos we maintain, at the bottom of the Discovery page
- Reminder: Draft goals for Q2 were due on August 26 (last Friday)
- Labor Day holiday Sept 5 (this coming Monday)
- (I notice a couple of you still have meetings scheduled that day!)
- [Wikitech-l] Have you fixed all (some even possibly broken) links to git.wikimedia.org in your code yet?
- Email thread: Change search planning meeting to include more people and be longer?
- We decided to experiment with making additional people optional
- Chris drafted a section on our roles page for CL; Mikhail added a section for analysts
- Switching to youtube from google hangouts on air - just fyi and might need to check meeting invites, saved videos, etc
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Brand workshop on Tuesday--should everyone attend?
- Use discretion; talk to your manager if unsure
- Chris out next week (and the following Monday)
- Benoit is watching discussions in my absence
Scrum of Scrums
editAre 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.)
- T139378 - implement nearby keyword search - working on this for the Reading Department
- First iteration done and deployed (in our ‘done’ column)
- Will wait for feedback and see if any more changes are required
- Reading web is “Improving search exp in mobile web”
- Reading web is “Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis”
Discovery News
editQuick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)
edit(Status below last updated 2016-08-23. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)
FY 2016-17 Q1 Key Results
edithttps://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)
- Evaluate and devise plan for using cross-project indices, which would allow users to search across all projects in any given language.
- Make BM25 algorithm the default
- Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
- Make <maplink> tag available for all wiki projects, and <mapframe> available everywhere except Wikipedia.
- Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
- Portal
- Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
- Continue to update article stats on a regular basis (last updated: Aug 4)
FYI
edit- Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled September 7
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
- Next All-Discovery retro TBD (mid-October)