Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-03-14

Topics from the past

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  • 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
  • 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

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Scrum of Scrums

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Are 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

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Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)

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Discovery 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

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https://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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Stabilize maps and graphs code base
    • Won’t necessarily end at the quarter boundary
  • 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