Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-12-06

Topics from the past

• Reminder about upcoming deployment interruptions
  • Dec 19-30: No deploys
  • Jan 9: No train (dev summit/all-hands)
• SoS: FR reminder of “stuff that could impact the fundraiser: GeoIP, ResourceLoader, MessageCache, EventLogging, Hive webrequest tables”
• News on Vienna hackathon?
  • We are approved to travel to the hackathon
  • Discovery offsite should happen before or after
  • Folks should register for the hackathon
• If you have a second today please check the submitted proposals for the Dev Summit and provide input with comments, tokens, etc. (more info).

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Community Wishlist Survey is open for voting. “WMF staff members who are also active contributors are welcome to vote; please use your volunteer account.“
  • There are suggestions related to search, graphs, maps, and wikidata
• Need someone to take notes for next week’s Discovery Checkin
  • Erika volunteered
• Should we pick a night for a Discovery dinner while we’re all at All Hands?
  • A night will probably present itself. TBD.

Scrum of Scrums

Are 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

• See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)

Quarterly 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 2016-12-06. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.

FY 2016-17 Q2 Key Results

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals#Discovery

• Search
  • Enable the backend for cross-project searches on all Wikimedia projects
    • Technically the goal is done; likely to roll out the feature in January
    • 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 in Q3
      • Will set-up labs instance for English wikipedia and projects by end of Q2
  • Enrich the data stored in ElasticSearch to allow targeted improvements to result relevance (Migrate away from "all" field in Elasticsearch)
    • Won’t hit the goal technically (“all wikis”), but is done in spirit
    • 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.
• 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

FYI

• Dec 7: Next Showcase (“CREDIT”)
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
• Dec 26-30: Holiday
• Jan 2: 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