Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-09-06
Topics from the past
edit- Chris out [this] week (and next Monday)
- Benoit is watching discussions in my absence
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- CREDIT showcase is tomorrow
- SPARQL workshop Thursday
- Discernatron & BM25 demo / luncheon on Sept 13th
- SF gets food, but otherwise remote friendly
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.)
- 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
editQuick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)
edit(Status below last updated 2016-09-06. 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)
- 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
- Make BM25 algorithm the default
- 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
- Make <maplink> tag available for all wiki projects, and <mapframe> available everywhere except Wikipedia.
- 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
- Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
FYI
edit- Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled September 7
- Next All-Discovery retro TBD (mid-October)