Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-03-29
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, and now also Europe
- FYI: Movement strategy conversations (cycle 1) are running until April 15
- Question: Any updates from management about future of maps or potential Product re-org?
- Re-org ideas are planned to be posted tomorrow
- Maps future has not yet been decided (as far as I know)
- Question: Status of design position hiring?
- Still in progress
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Should we clean up who is “voiced” in the discovery IRC channel?
- E.g. tfinc is, but ebernhardson isn’t
- Erik will do a bit of cleanup
- Do we all need loaner laptops for Vienna?
- If you’re not sure, do a self-inventory of what’s on your laptop, then contact [[1]] for guidance
- Security Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsG0T81qcRI
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.)
- None
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
- Done
- Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
- In progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154503
- Won’t happen this quarter; under discussion
- 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 & Ukrainian underway https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158203
- Deploy new analysers that are found to be an improvement
- Polish has been deployed! 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 ended; analysis underway
- Run at least 2 A/B tests on Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias
- Stabilize maps and graphs code base
- Won’t end at the quarter boundary; major progress has been made
FYI
edit- March 29: Next work-centric unmeeting
- 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 18: Next All-Discovery retro
- July 24-August 4: WMF staff encouraged to work remotely