Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-01-24

Topics from the past

• (none)

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Very brief discussion about the future of the interactive team
  • Link to public announcement: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2017-January/001421.html
  • Tension on Phabricator
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112948
    • Actively being addressed by Wes et. al.
    • This is only a small and not unexpected pushback
• How did the Discovery quarterly check-in go?
  • Fine. Good questions, good answers. No surprises.
  • Are these recorded? Not generally.
  • Notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/DiscoveryQuarterlyCheckinJanuary2017
  • Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qVs3q0ZIi6VbTmMec-u4ohsLDVQfqXmgkG3XWkZ_P2I/edit#slide=id.g1c0e8e1e58_0_1497
• Suggestions for the Developer wishlist are welcome
• Structured Data on Commons project
  • Roadmaps
    • Technical plans at the moment have some overlap with Discovery (WDQS, cirrus)
    • This will be accounted for in Discovery’s annual plan
    • Team is expected to form Q4 (April-ish) but this is subject to change
  • Staffing
    • Public announcement is in the works
    • Some positions will be filled by internal transfers, others by hiring

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)

Past (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

https://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

• Feb 1: CREDIT showcase
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
• May Discovery offsite (main planning will happen in Feb/Mar)
• TBD: Next All-Discovery retro (target late Feb)