Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-03-21
Topics from the past
edit- Book your offsite/hackathon travel (see email)
- 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
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- FYI: Movement strategy conversations (cycle 1) are running until April 15
- [wikitech-l] Starting in April 2017, MediaWiki will end Grade A support for browsers that do not implement ECMAScript 5 JavaScript (e.g. IE 9)
- Question about booking hotel for hackathon/offsite
- Just fill out the travel request; if you don’t need hotels before or after the events, you shouldn’t need to do anything special
- Rosters/manifests haven’t been published yet; when they are, check to make sure your information is accurate
- Question: Any updates from management about future of maps or potential Product re-org?
- Maps future depends on annual planning process, so no decisions yet
- Next step in re-org should be for Anna to post suggestions, ideas, proposals, etc. on wiki, and announce.
- Question: Status of design position hiring?
- We are interviewing candidates. No other news.
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 2017-03-14. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.
Preview of FY 2016-17 Q4 (Apr-Jun) goals: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q4_Goals#Discovery
FY 2016-17 Q3 (Jan-Mar) Key Results
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- 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
- A/B test currently running, will end March 24
- 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 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?? TBD: Next All-Discovery retro
- July 24-August 4: WMF staff encouraged to work remotely