Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-09-12
Topics from the past
edit- CREDIT showcase
is tomorrow(was last week) - SPARQL workshop Thursday
- https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/SPARQL_workshop
- Feedback was positive
- Sept 13: Discernatron & BM25 demo / luncheon
- SF gets food, but otherwise remote friendly
- Reading web is “Improving search exp in mobile web”
- Dan will discuss w/Reading product mgmt this week
- Reading web is “Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis”
- Dan will discuss w/Reading product mgmt this week
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Discernatron lunch tomorrow!
- Product/Tech meetings in SF this week
- Next Monday (Sept 19) is both “Talk Like a Pirate Day”, and in some countries, a federal holiday (Guillaume is off next Monday - and not today like some people seem to believe)
- <maplink> was launched everywhere
- Ops offsite Sept 26-30, Guillaume will have limited availability
- Yuri: Thanks to Stas for the impressive “governors” demo query
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”
- 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 2016-09-06. 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 (tons of village pump outreach last week)
- Make BM25 algorithm the default
- Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
- Make <maplink> tag available for all wiki projects, and <mapframe> available everywhere except Wikipedia.
- <maplink> DONE!
- <mapframe> Have solution for VE blocker
- 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. Delayed by Discernatron work. Still 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 October 5
- Next All-Discovery retro October 10