Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-10-25
Topics from the past
edit- Thanks GL for filling in with facilitation last week!
- WMF values conversations; everyone is encouraged (not required) to sign up
- Quarterly review went well, generally
- From SoS: “Winter is coming... Annual reminder to please postpone risky rollouts till after December's fundraising campaign”
- TODO: Katie still needs to talk to Greg to see what constraints we have
- Erika started (last) week!
- From [wikitech-l]: O’Reilly has released several ebooks at zero cost
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- TPG shadow: Natalia will be joining Discovery meetings for the next couple weeks
- Cubs are in the world series (first time in 71 yrs)
- Will there be any train interruptions through the rest of the year?
- No details at this point
- Mikhail will present at Metrics this Thursday
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 Q2 Key Results
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- 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 24 - Nov 11: Dan will be in the UK for work visa renewal
- Oct 24 - Oct 28: Dan’s availability is very sketchy for this week
- 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”)
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
- Jan 5: Next All-Discovery retro