Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-05-30
Topics from the past
edit- Staff annual reviews started May 22
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Adam and Jon have been invited to this (weekly checkin) meeting
- [wikitech-l] New Architecture Committee draft charter (and rename to T-Comm):
- Should we continue to have this meeting after the team splits?
- Yes, let’s continue. If it gets awkward we can make changes
- Does wikimania budget roll over to new team structure?
- KH: Generally the budget got split. I no longer have say over who goes to what events.
- Technology department will have various in-person meetings throughout the year, mostly just for managers/leadership
- Namely UI for adding reviewers is not entirely intuitive, so if you haven’t heard from people you expected to, check with them.
- Deb has worked through some of the tricky parts of the UI, so feel free to contact her if you are having trouble
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.)
- 2017-05-10: iOS: Enhanced search visibility: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130159
- 2017-05-17: Please update extensions you maintain to add a compatibility policy! see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-May/088190.html
- 2017-05-17: Preliminary support for Debian Stretch in labs (on a per project basis)
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 In progress
- 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 In progress
- 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 In progress
- 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 In progress
- Stabilize and fix high priority bugs
FYI
edit- June 5: Tune-up (🐟) 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
- David off June 5 (public holiday)
- Katie out for fr-tech offsite 6/4 to 6/8
- Erika OOO June 8-9 (vacation)
- Erika OOO June 20-22 (WikiLead)