Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-04-18
Topics from the past
edit- Hopefully by now, everyone has submitted their request for offsite/hackathon travel (see email)
- [wikitech-l] Deployment train will freeze for the weeks of April 17th and May 1st
- Datacenter switchover is happening tomorrow: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Switch_Datacenter
- Quarterly Discovery checkin slides were written, presented, and posted
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Offsite hotel is taken care of; a manifest will probably be circulated by travel within a couple weeks to provide visual confirmation
- [SoS] safemode=1 URL parameter to not load user scripts and gadgets. Often these cause interference with extension JS, so this can greatly simplify troubleshooting.
- FYI: Conference rooms in the office will soon require you to “check in” for your meetings, or you might lose the room
- Updates on Product/Tech tune-up (the "tuna")
- No big new 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.)
- 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- May 3: CREDIT showcase
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
- May 14-18: Discovery offsite in Vienna (right before the hackathon)
- May 19-21: Hackathon in Vienna (right after the offsite)
- May 29: US holiday
- June 19: WMF holiday
- July 4: US holiday
- July 18: Next All-Discovery retro
- July 24-August 4: WMF staff encouraged to work remotely
- Guillaume on vacation from July 10 to 21st