Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-05-02
Topics from the past
edit- [wikitech-l] Deployment train will freeze for the weeks of April 17th and May 1st
- FYI: Conference rooms in the office theoretically now require you to “check in” for your meetings, or you might lose the room
- Updates on Product/Tech tune-up (tuna)
- C-level decision meeting postponed until May 9
- Still trying to sort out the analyst situation
- We have permission to discuss the tune-up publicly
- Kevin is now tentatively slotted into Technology (rather than Editing)
- C-level decision meeting postponed until May 9
- [Discovery] Maps style preview request for feedback
- If the server is down, ping Paul on IRC
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Should we be worried if we haven’t heard anything concrete about Offsite and/or Hackathon hotel info yet?
- No. As long as you registered for both events, your hotel should be booked
- Expect to see a manifest from Travel at some point
- Interesting question on “questions in search queries” on the English Wikipedia. I don’t know if anyone needs/wants to respond, but it’s an interesting community discussion to read.
- Upcoming WMF employee engagement survey (May 8-20)
- HIGHLY recommended you fill it out next week, before you travel, if possible
- Upcoming WMF employee annual performance reviews start May 22
- Start thinking about who you will ask to write peer reviews
- Offsite
- Draft agenda has been updated:
- It is not final, and will continue to be refined this week
- We will have a google calendar and gchat set up for the event
- Q: Should we prepare anything? Can we help?
- Reflect on how things have been going
- Think about how things might work best with the new org structure
- Think about any unconference topics you might want to propose
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
- OOO
- See also: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lnCqgouV1mmTos-bicIvozubrrzDjCi8gQAoTmNuKgQ/edit#gid=0
- Erika taking vacation days May 4-5
- Deb off May 3, 5 and ½ of 8th
- David off May 8th
- 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
- Guillaume most probably off for a Thursday / Friday in June (no precise date yet)