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Announcements, Information, Questions

REMINDER: Friday (April 14) is a WMF holiday
[SoS] FR-tech's new job runner / cron complement script to replace our Jenkins instance is working like a charm. Anyone else want to use it for scheduled jobs?
[wikitech-l] Deployment train will freeze for the weeks of April 17th and May 1st
Quarterly Discovery checkin slides are being written now (by Deb)
Updates on Product/Tech tune-up ("org tuna")
- Decision: Paul probably doesn’t need to attend tomorrow’s meeting w/Toby+Victoria+Anna
- Discussion tomorrow probably won’t cover maps much
- Future support for graphs (and Commons datasets) remains a question mark
  - Toby might have a plan; maybe multimedia
- Side thought: Multimedia team is expected to be responsible for structured data on commons
- Timeline at the bottom of the org tuna page has been updated with more details

Are we blocked?

Are we blocking?

Other dependencies (in either direction) which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are progressing smoothly, have no urgency, etc.)

Discovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ

This status was last updated 2017-04-11. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.

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