Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-09-27
Topics from the past
edit- 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
edit- 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
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 2016-09-21. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)
FY 2016-17 Q1 Key Results
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- 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.
- Make BM25 algorithm the default
- Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
- Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
- Yellow status. Unlikely to be in the condition we had hoped.
- Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
- Portal
- Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
- Won’t happen this quarter due to “no deploys”; should be early Oct.
- Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
FYI
edit- 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