Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-10-11
Topics from the past
edit- Reading web
- is “Improving search exp in mobile web”
- is “Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis”
- Deb/Dan/Jan met w/Reading folks
- Agreed that search on mobile would be taken care of by Reading teams
- Nirzar/Olga agreed to follow-up if anything pertinent is happening
- RelEng offsite Oct 17-21
- So no train deploys that week
- Kevin will be mostly unavailable
- Guillaume will facilitate next week’s checkin
- Gentle reminder to submit your proposals for Wikimedia Developer Summit. The deadline is 31 Oct for topic proposals.
- Spark Project sharing deadline is Nov 1.
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Anything the whole group should know from the ops offsite?
- Nothing specific. Good ops-y discussions.
- Weird spike in our metrics graph, noticed by Mikhail
- Nothing newsworthy
- WMF values conversations; everyone is encouraged (not required) to sign up
- FYI: Yuri will be Discovery’s substitute rep for Scrum of Scrums this week (Oct 12)
- Dan, Stas, and Chris attended Wikiconference North America 2016
- Lots of wikidata-related talks
- Talks about structured data on commons
- Knowledge Engine retrospective (apparently went well)
- Mxn gave a maps+wdqs talk; there were other maps-related talks
- Guillaume will be presenting Elasticsearch to our Ops team this Friday.
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.)
- None
Discovery News
editQuick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)
edit(Status below last updated 2016-10-11. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)
FY 2016-17 Q1 Key Results
editNOTE: Q2 goals will show up here next week
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)
- We are close to deploying for some languages; other languages have issues with word breaks
- Make BM25 algorithm the default
- Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
- Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
- Was deployed shortly after quarter ended
- Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
- Portal
- Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
- Was pushed to production on Oct 11, 2016
- Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
FYI
edit- Next All-Discovery retro October 13
- Discovery Quarterly Review (presenting Q1 goal results) Monday, Oct 17
- Monthly metrics Thursday October 27
- Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled November 2
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT