Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-11-22
Topics from the past
edit- Reminder about upcoming deployment interruptions
- Nov 21-25: No train (also no deploys that Wed-Fri)
- Dec 19-30: No deploys
- Jan 9: No train (dev summit/all-hands)
- Product head meetings Nov 16-17...any news from that?
- Nothing that directly affects Discovery work
- Discussions about how Product can/should interact with Partnerships
- Interactive Team’s roadmap published: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery#Maps
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- [wikitech-l] Selenium testing docs have been updated: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Selenium
- [discovery] Discovery narrative and mission living document posted: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2016-November/001373.html
- Need volunteers for Privacy by Design process test run
- Dan will contact them (along with Deb)
- Interactive team: Assess the progress from October 1, agree on adjustments
- Erika will arrange/facilitate
- Maps adoption on ruwiki: They are interested but busy with other things.
- Have gotten positive feedback (and no negative feedback) since the launch
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 2016-11-22. 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
- Back end: Load test (the real potential blocker) is being tried at 75%
- Front end: Reached out to communities for A/B tests; got one, want more. Meetings w/Nirzar about design are progressing
- Will probably deploy A/B tests on Persian, Polish, Italian and Catalan wikipedias
- Will set-up labs instance for English wikipedia and projects
- Enrich the data stored in ElasticSearch to allow targeted improvements to result relevance (Migrate away from "all" field in Elasticsearch)
- Done for top 10 projects. Depending on analysis, might reindex wikis, or might have to fix space issue for some languages
- Quarterly Review: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uem20E4P_e94yTfWpX8wQkbV8cDuNkja913TDonYATs/edit
- Discovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ
- Enable the backend for cross-project searches on all Wikimedia projects
- Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
- Increase maps and graphs usage on Wikipedia
- Updating commons template increased usage a lot (from thousands to millions)
- Slow uptake on ruwiki (fewer articles than hoped) seems to be because they are just busy
- Enable shareable Geoshapes and Tabular data storage on Commons
- Now enabled on beta labs (commons and other wikis)
- Hope to deploy widely next week
- Some progress on geojson; need to add support for maps and graphs
- Increase maps and graphs usage on Wikipedia
FYI
edit- 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