Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-10-18
Topics from the past
edit- WMF values conversations; everyone is encouraged (not required) to sign up
- Katie: very good experience! Join the conversation if you can!
- Deb: Very interesting as well. Aligning our understanding make sense.
- Guillaume gave Elasticsearch presentation to our Ops team last Friday
- Presentation was well received, interesting questions, lots of clarification.
- Discovery might want to do something similar.
- Some overlap with CREDIT
- However, CREDIT limits presenters to 5 minutes, and there is no shared context
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Anything we should know about from the Quarterly Review?
- everything is good, generally
- Email sent to discovery-private containing some feedback
- From SoS: “Winter is coming... Annual reminder to please postpone risky rollouts till after December's fundraising campaign”
- Cross-wiki search backend is getting less risky due to not merging the indices together in Q2
- Frontend is a bit more risky, but only prototyping is planned
- Interactive is risky
- Map frame: we are confident
- Tabular data space: we have the technology, but the steps to get there are not yet completely clear yet.
- Portal: not risky at all (just maintenance for the most part)
- Katie still need to talk to Greg to see what constraints we have
- Cross-wiki search backend is getting less risky due to not merging the indices together in Q2
- Erika started this week!
- From [wikitech-l]: O’Reilly has released several ebooks at zero cost:
- Performance, Operations, Release engineering: http://www.oreilly.com/webops-perf/free/
- Data, AI, Analytics: http://www.oreilly.com/data/free/
- Programming, architecture, Open source culture: http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/
- Security: http://www.oreilly.com/security/free/
- Web platform, design: http://www.oreilly.com/web-platform/free/
Scrum of Scrums
edit- Are we blocked?
- None
- Are we blocking? (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/)
- None
Discovery News
editQuick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update
edit(Status below last updated 2016-10-18. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)
FY 2016-17 Q2 Key Results
edithttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals#Discovery
- Search
- Enable the backend for cross-project indices on all Wikimedia projects
- Enrich the data stored in ElasticSearch to allow targeted improvements to result relevance (Migrate away from "all" field in Elasticsearch)
- We are early in the quarter, so far so good
- Quarterly Review: ** https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uem20E4P_e94yTfWpX8wQkbV8cDuNkja913TDonYATs/edit
- Discovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ
- Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
- Increase maps and graphs usage on Wikipedia
- Once map frame is launched, we expect KPI to increase fast
- Enable shareable Geoshapes and Tabular data storage on Commons
- Increase maps and graphs usage on Wikipedia
FYI
edit- Oct 27: Monthly metrics (Thursday)
- Oct 31: Gentle reminder to submit your proposals for Wikimedia Developer Summit. The deadline is 31 Oct for topic proposals.
- Interactive needs to decide what specific areas to discuss with the community. Long term ideas: external data consumption. Short term goals: on-wiki data storage, integrating graphs/Polestar/...
- Nov 1: Spark Project sharing deadline
- Nov 2: Next Showcase (“CREDIT”)
- TBD: Next All-Discovery retro