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Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-09-05

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Topics from the past edit

 Announcements, Information, Questions edit

  • TechCom Charter meeting might be interesting to watch, aired Sep 5
  • Q2 planning is starting, rough draft due Sept. 11. Here’s the whole process (for Technology side)
  • Finishing up contractor performance reviews
  • OSC contract is done, retrospective this week:
    • potentially at parity or significantly better
    • need to discuss handling of short-term contracts
  • If you are interested in mentoring a project in the Outreachy Round 15 and want to learn how to do so, sign up for the Outreachy program brown bag that Srishti’s planning to organize this week - September 6th at 17:30 UTC / 10:30 AM PST.

 Scrum of Scrums edit

Are 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.)

  • Deploy discovery-analytics with scap3 (T129149)

Discovery News edit

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) edit

Discovery Roadmap FY 2017/18: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/presentation/d/1N41eNrz0vFHJamLkhQjSFCOSiDg-bKr5H3ROchqwVJU/edit?usp=sharing

FY 2017-18 Q1 (Jul-Sep) goals: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery#Projects

This status was last updated 2017-08-22. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.

Tech:Search Platform edit

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2017-18_Q1#Search_platform

Backend Search:

1. Implement advanced methodologies such as “learning to rank” machine learning techniques and signals to improve search result relevance across language Wikipedias.

  • Perform load tests and A/B tests on new models to make sure they can be safely deployed to production (IN PROGRESS)
  • When ready, deploy newly automated models which match (at a minimum) current performance of manually-configured search result relevance

2. Improve support for multiple languages by researching and deploying new language analyzers as they make sense to individual language wikis.

  • Perform research spikes to find new analyzers for different languages (IN PROGRESS)
  • Test new analyzers to see if they are improvements (Japanese and Vietnamese) (IN PROGRESS)
  • Deploy new / updated analyzers
  • Deploy analyzers in progress from last quarter (Hebrew)

WDQS: Wikidata Query Service goal for this quarter will be working on expanding category search in the query service, while also collecting SPARQL statistics; it will be maintained by Stas and Guillaume to support the continued growth and use of the service; the Analysis team will help with statistics.

Audiences:Readers:Discovery edit

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Audiences/2017-18_Q1_Goals#Readers

Frontend Search:

  • Finish up testing of the Explore Similar feature on search results page
    • Analyze data and gather community feedback (IN PROGRESS)
    • Request internationalization strings
    • Deploy feature

Portal: Wikipedia.org Portal team will not have any dedicated goals this quarter other than continuing to maintain the page by fixing critical bugs and performing regular statistics and translations updates.

Maps: The Maps goal for this quarter is to finalize and deploy the new map style, as well as monitoring the service for critical bugs and increasing the frequency of OSM replication.

Analysis: The team will continue to work closely with the Search teams to analyze A/B tests and other assorted data; they will also prototype automated A/B test reports and investigate addition of Continuous Integration to their R codebases.

FYI edit

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