Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-09-27

Topics from the past

• Ops offsite Sept 26-30
  • So no deploys (except emergencies)
  • Guillaume limited availability
• RelEng offsite Oct 17-21
  • So no train deploys that week
  • Kevin will be mostly unavailable

Announcements, Information, Questions

• TPG shadow, tentatively Oct 24-Nov 4
  • Natalia joined TPG as an agile specialist. To become familiar with what we do, she'll spend a couple weeks shadowing each other TPGer.
  • We're not exactly sure what shadowing will mean, but generally observing meetings
• OIT will be somewhat less available this Friday (Sept 30)
• Reminder: When you’re out, please create a “busy” event on your calendar AND rsvp “no” to all your meetings. Thanks!!!

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”
• Reading web is “Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis”

Discovery News

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

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)

(Status below last updated 2016-09-21. 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)
    • Won’t happen this quarter; should be early Oct.
• Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
  • Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
    • Yellow status. Unlikely to be in the condition we had hoped.
• Portal
  • Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
    • Won’t happen this quarter due to “no deploys”; should be early Oct.

FYI

• Monthly metrics this Thursday Sept 29
  • Kevin prefers to watch the recording later at 1.5x or 2x speed
• Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled October 5
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
• Next All-Discovery retro October 10