Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-09-06

Topics from the past

• Chris out [this] week (and next Monday)
  • Benoit is watching discussions in my absence

Announcements, Information, Questions

• CREDIT showcase is tomorrow
• SPARQL workshop Thursday
• Discernatron & BM25 demo / luncheon on Sept 13th
  • SF gets food, but otherwise remote friendly

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.)

• Reading web is “Improving search exp in mobile web”
  • Dan will take a look
• Reading web is “Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis”
  • Dan will take a look

Discovery News

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

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)

(Status below last updated 2016-09-06. 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)
    • Seems to be on track
  • Evaluate and devise plan for using cross-project indices, which would allow users to search across all projects in any given language.
    • Seems to be on track
• Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
  • Make <maplink> tag available for all wiki projects, and <mapframe> available everywhere except Wikipedia.
    • <maplink> almost went out last week; hopefully this week
    • <mapframe> need to resolve issues raised by editing
  • Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
    • Should deliver something by the end of quarter
• Portal
  • Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
    • Have been blocked, but not any more. On track.
  • Continue to update article stats on a regular basis (last updated: Aug 4)
    • On track

FYI

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