Topics from the past

Annual planning is underway (The first draft is due by 22nd February)
- Brainstorming doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZzTHJOrqxU7-guCvPmjJ8tgZf7eY8C-Gg1xp0JHFLoU
- Dan will share first draft of goals with Discovery
Registering for Hackathon is open (all Discovery members are approved)
- Assume Thursday arrival at Hackathon hotel (leaving the offsite hotel on Thursday)

Announcements, Information, Questions

[Engineering] “Analytics Cluster Hadoop Upgrade and Downtime: February 28 2017”
Collab Jam this week
- Budget-minded folks from across the WMF are meeting to share draft annual plans and resolve cross-departmental dependencies

Are we blocked?

Are we blocking? (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/)

Other dependencies (in either direction) which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are progressing smoothly, have no urgency, etc.)

This status was last updated 2017-02-21. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.

upgrading to Elasticsearch 5
- Upgrade search cluster to Elasticsearch 5
  - In progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154501
- Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
  - In progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154503
deploying new language analysers
- Perform research spikes to find new analysers for different languages
  - Polish is done; Chinese underway https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158202
- Test new analysers to see if they are improvements
  - Polish is done; Chinese planned https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158203
- Deploy new analysers that are found to be an improvement
  - Deployment of Polish is planned https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158682
cross-wiki searching
- Have a working prototype in Labs
  - Done
- Run at least 2 A/B tests on Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias
  - A/B/C test is underway: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149806