Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-05-09
Topics from the past
edit- Updates on Product/Tech tune-up (tuna)
- C-level decision meeting postponed until May 9
- We no longer have permission to discuss the tune-up publicly
- (And we are getting mixed messages about sharing anything with staff)
- Kevin is tentatively slotted into Technology (rather than Editing)
- Upcoming WMF employee engagement survey (May 8-20)
- HIGHLY recommended you fill it out today or tomorrow
- Offsite
- Draft agenda has been updated:
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Offsite/hackathon travel information and manifests have been posted on office wiki
- https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel/Vienna_Offsites/Hackathon_Travel_Information
- Discovery manifest/roster has been updated; if you are comfortable adding a mobile number that will work during the event, please add it
- SoS: Reminder: no train week of May 15th due to RelEng offsite (SWAT still on)
- [wmfall] Friday, May 12th has been designated MediaWiki Documentation Day.
- Staff annual reviews start May 22 (details to follow)
- New map preview is up for feedback (info was sent to [Discovery], [maps], and is being posted on community village pump equivalents)
- Offsite agenda: Will there be time to plan quarterly goals for the next fiscal year?
- During “new teams” section.
- QGoal format is different between Product and Technology
- But maybe just how things are explained, not changes to what is important
- Erika plans to propose an unconference session
- Important to nail down how frontend and backend will coordinate
- Not clear when Max will transition into his new role
- Partly depends on decisions by Toby around maps rollouts
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 2017-04-11. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.
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- Imminent OOO
- See also the Discovery May vacation/travel calendar sheet (and please update it)
- 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 5: Tune-up (reorg) changes go into effect
- June 7: CREDIT showcase
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
- 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 off June 8-9