Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-01-17
Topics from the past
edit- (There was no checkin last week)
- Discovery Quarterly Review presentation Jan 23 (slides are due earlier...Jan 16)
- Dan and Deb believe they have what they need to finalize the decks over the next day or two
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Very brief discussion about the future of the interactive team
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)
editPast (Q2 Oct-Dec) 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 2016-12-15. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.
FY 2016-17 Q3 (Jan-Mar) Key Results
edithttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q3_Goals#Discovery
- upgrading to Elasticsearch 5
- Upgrade search cluster to Elasticsearch 5
- Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
- deploying new language analysers
- Perform research spikes to find new analysers for different languages
- Test new analysers to see if they are improvements
- Deploy new analysers that are found to be an improvement
- cross-wiki searching
- Have a working prototype in Labs
- Run at least 2 A/B tests on Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias
FYI
edit- Feb 1: CREDIT showcase
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
- May Discovery offsite (planning has begun)
- TBD: Next All-Discovery retro (target late Feb)