Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-11-29
Topics from the past
edit- Reminder about upcoming deployment interruptions
- Dec 19-30: No deploys
- Jan 9: No train (dev summit/all-hands)
- [discovery] Discovery narrative and mission living document posted: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2016-November/001373.html
- Interactive team: Assess the progress from October 1, agree on adjustments
- Erika will move this forward
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- [engineering] mw1017 and mw1099 test appservers have been decommissioned
- SoS: FR reminder of “stuff that could impact the fundraiser: GeoIP, ResourceLoader, MessageCache, EventLogging, Hive webrequest tables”
- SoS: Analytics gave us a nice mention: “Thanking discovery for contributing to our metric reporting tools”
- Do we need to do anything about the Vienna Hackathon email, or in general for the Vienna Hackathon?
- Katie will follow up
- No action required from others at this time
- FYI: Extension:PageImages is getting an update to return non-free images.
- If you have a moment today, please check the submitted proposals for the Dev Summit and provide input with comments, tokens, etc. (more info).
- Weekly status updates return to normal this week. Please share what you’re working on!
- [wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2016 just started: “Expect many questions on IRC and mailing lists by onboarding newcomers”
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)
editQuarterly Review: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uem20E4P_e94yTfWpX8wQkbV8cDuNkja913TDonYATs/edit
Discovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ
This status was last updated 2016-11-29. 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 looking good; likely to turn it on
- Front end: Reached out to communities for A/B tests; announcement of testing is out for translation.
- 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. Should be done for all but 18 soon (out of 280+). Not sure of the status of those 18 at this moment.
- Enable the backend for cross-project searches on all Wikimedia projects
- Interactive: Maps/Graphs...
- Increase maps and graphs usage on Wikipedia
- Working on collecting metrics to demonstrate the effects
- 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)
- On hold pending deployment checklist
- Some progress on geojson; need to add support for maps and graphs
- Increase maps and graphs usage on Wikipedia
FYI
edit- 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