Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-11-08
Topics from the past
edit- From SoS: “Winter is coming... Annual reminder to please postpone risky rollouts till after December's fundraising campaign” (note: any dates not listed here are normal deployment days)
- Nov 21-25: No train (also no deploys that Wed-Fri)
- Dec 19-30: No deploys
- Jan 9: No train (dev summit/all-hands)
- [wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2016 has been announced: A contest for 13-17 year old students. November 2016. For more info, see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016#Mentors.27_corner
- * Do your docs on your wiki need some improvements?
- * Does your template or gadget code needs some updates?
- * Do you have small and self-contained bugs you'd love to get fixed?
- * Does your UI have small design issues?
- * Do your old bugs welcome some testing?
- Katie in office Nov 8-9
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Note new staff guidelines for behavior at events and on projects (office wiki)
- [wikitech-l] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28 is rather bare and needs more people to fill it out and highlight the cool new things that were developed in this release cycle!
- Reminder: Friday Nov 11 is a WMF holiday
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 2016-11-01. 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 searches on all Wikimedia projects
- Enrich the data stored in ElasticSearch to allow targeted improvements to result relevance (Migrate away from "all" field in Elasticsearch)
- 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
- Past week went from 20-25k pages using maps to 2.5 million pages and growing (thanks to commons template update using maplink for any media that has geo coordinates)
- Enable shareable Geoshapes and Tabular data storage on Commons
- Now enabled on beta labs (commons and other wikis)
- Some progress on geojson; need to add support for maps and graphs
- Increase maps and graphs usage on Wikipedia
FYI
edit- Nov 11: Holiday (Veterans Day)
- Nov 17: Monthly metrics (Thursday)
- Nov 24-25 Holiday (Thanksgiving)
- Dec 7: Next Showcase (“CREDIT”)
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
- Dec 26-30: Holiday
- Jan 5: Next All-Discovery retro
- Jan 9-11: Dev Summit (SF)
- Jan 12-13: All-hands (SF)
- Some of us not going to the Dev Summit will be coming in a day early
- Discovery dinner? :) +1+1 +1000