Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-03-07
Topics from the past
edit- Firefox will (temporarily) lose support for hangouts March 7
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Feel free to book your offsite/hackathon travel (see email)
- [wikitech-l]: Google Summer of Code:
- [wmfall] Staff are encouraged to work remotely for 2 weeks, July 24-Aug 4
- [engineering] Puppet manifests can be tested locally before using the puppet compiler or trying them in labs or a production canary
- [Wikitech-l] Prague Pre-Hackathon May 12-14
- [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimaps User Group
- Reminder: This coming Monday, March 13, is a WMF holiday
- Reminder: Daylight Saving Time (aka “summer time”) starts March 12 in 98% of the US; March 26 in much of Europe
- Many meetings are probably locked to SF time; if any times become especially awkward during the transition, feel free to request/propose different times
- Political sidebar: “Why is daylight saving time still a thing???”
- Should we invite Paul to these meetings?
- General support. Kevin will consult w/Katie and will invite Paul unless we realize it wouldn't be appropriate
- Updates on plans for maps/interactive team?
- Dan is out; Katie has been out; Erika is continuing to try to resolve/get answers
- Reminder: If you want to provide direct input regarding Product department conversations, let Stillwell know asap
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.)
- Kartotherian (maps) and Node6: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150354
Discovery News
editQuick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)
editDiscovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ
This status was last updated 2017-02-21. 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
- In progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154501
- Proposed release date March 13
- Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
- In progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154503
- Expected to follow 1-2 weeks after ES 5 update
- Upgrade search cluster to Elasticsearch 5
- deploying new language analysers
- Perform research spikes to find new analysers for different languages
- Polish is done; Chinese is done https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158202
- Test new analysers to see if they are improvements
- Polish is done; Chinese underway https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158203
- Deploy new analysers that are found to be an improvement
- Deployment of Polish is expected after ES 5 release https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158682
- Perform research spikes to find new analysers for different languages
- cross-wiki searching
- Run at least 2 A/B tests on Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias
- A/B/C test ended: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149806
- Run at least 2 A/B tests on Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias
- Interactive
- Stabilize the code...won’t necessarily end at the quarter boundary
FYI
edit- Mar 12: US Daylight Saving Time starts
- Mar 13: WMF Holiday(!)
- Mar 16 Next All-Discovery retro
- April 5: CREDIT showcase
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
- April 14: WMF Holiday(!)
- May 14-18: Discovery offsite in Vienna (right before the hackathon)
- May 19-21: Hackathon in Vienna (right after the offsite)