Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-03-14
Topics from the past
edit- Feel free to book your offsite/hackathon travel (see email)
- Note request to check out Sunday (at the end of the hackathon) if possible
- Note that we’ll stay at the offsite hotel Thursday night
- [Wikitech-l] Prague Pre-Hackathon May 12-14
- mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Prehackathon_Prague
- Seems to have some topics relevant to Discovery
- Reminder: Daylight Saving Time (aka “summer time”) is in effect for 98% of the US, but not yet for Europe (March 26)...watch your calendar closely for shifting meetings
- Should we invite Paul to these meetings? Yes. Done.
- Updates on plans for maps/interactive team?
- Longer-term plans are being handled as part of annual planning
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- SoS: Community Tech added a CirrusSearch "source" to Massviews https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159858
- [Engineering] [Breaking Change] MediaWiki-Vagrant now defaults to Debian Jessie
- Revert removal of SpecialSearchNogomatch and deprecate for removal properly - issues with core. Erik will take a look.
- FYI: iOS team is rolling out a beta app that uses Apple’s maps, because using our map tiles would be difficult
Scrum of Scrums
editAre we blocked?
- None
Are we blocking?
- 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
- Release started March 13 (should be done on March 20 or 21)
- 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
- Researching and deploying new language analysers
- Perform research spikes to find new analysers for different languages
- Polish, Chinese, Ukrainian are 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
- Stabilize maps and graphs code base
- Won’t necessarily end at the quarter boundary
FYI
edit- Mar 16 Next All-Discovery retro
- Mar 26: Europe Daylight Saving Time starts
- 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)
- July 24-August 4: WMF staff encouraged to work remotely