Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-04-04
Topics from the past
edit- Book your offsite/hackathon travel (see email)
- Should we clean up who is “voiced” in the discovery IRC channel?
- We did
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- [Engineering] You can now write Selenium tests in Node.js! (Željko)
- Product/tech tune-up proposals have been posted on office wiki: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Product_and_Tech_consultation
- Erika will put together a doc which will become an office wiki page, with ideas for Discovery future
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
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FY 2016-17 Q4 (Apr-Jun) goals: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q4_Goals#Discovery
- Improve search by researching and load testing machine learning to automatically re-rank search results
- Research and develop new models to determine which ones work best
- Build out data munging and data pipeline to develop new models
- Deploy automated model which matches current performance of manually-configured search result relevance
- Begin performing load tests on new models to make sure they can be safely deployed to production
- Improve search support for different languages by researching and deploying new language analyzers
- Perform research spikes to find new analyzers for different languages
- Test new analyzers to see if they are improvements
- Deploy new analyzers that are found to be an improvement
- Refine and test new design of search results page with occasional deployments
- Test new functionality with at least 2 A/B tests
- Analyze tests and gather community feedback
- Roll out new functionality with small releases to production across all Wikipedias
- Stabilize maps and graphs code base
- Stabilize and fix high priority bugs
FYI
edit- April 5: Work-centric unmeeting
- April 5: CREDIT showcase
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
- April 12: Work-centric unmeeting
- 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