Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Maps retrospective 2016-03-22
Discovery Maps (and Graphs) ("Interactive Team") Retrospective
2016-03-22
What has happened
editCovering whatever has happened related to the team since the last retro (2016-02-22)
- Lila left; Katherine interim ED
- Julien joined the team
- Quarterly/annual planning
- Huge support for Maps from other teams
- Hardware is still on hold
- Wikivoyage
- Significant feedback from Wikivoyage
- Dynamic graphs
- Some minor Graphs feedback
Review previous action items
edit- Chris: Follow up to Yuri’s idea on status updates for Discovery (ala Wikidata - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates
- Yuri: Request for Yuri to create a phab ticket about maps UI needs
- Dan will schedule a conversation about long-term maps plans
- Tomasz will take this off his plate
- Chris: could be another blog post here (graphing pageviews)
- Not done; see action items below
What went well?
edit- Kartogarpher on Wikivoyage
- Tons of feedback; positive and requests [NEED LINK HERE]
- Mostly non-English
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Maps#Discussion_from_WikiVoyage_NL - as an example of the feedback
- Getting stuff done, a lot of it
- Lean structure; few distractions
- Bazaar rather than cathedral; moved quickly; incremental and test-based
- Lots of support from other teams
- Reading and Editing have been giving huge support; expressing great interest
- Reading has been more of an expression of support so far
- Volker said he would coordinate his work with Julien; Yuri's not aware of current status
- Max has been able to focus on maps (almost no portal work for last few months)
What could we improve?
edit- Hardware
- Still waiting for decisions
- Lack of visibility
- Currently blocked on finance for resolution of strategic budget
- Possibly would help to explain (again) that other teams are interested (it's already in the plan)
- UI dev on a more permanent assignment to our team
- Full time person would be ideal
- Tons of work in graphs (e.g. internationalization, click-to-navigate)
- Tons of work in maps (e.g. zooming/scrolling, multiple layers, push-pins)
What else should be noted?
edit- UI help was requested for a long time; now filled by Julien (on a potentially temporary basis)
- Guillaume hasn't really been involved with maps yet
- Should goals for Maps for Q4 be added here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Maps_.26_Geo
- Hardware will determine goals
- Should probably write 2 scenarios, one w/hardware and one without
Action Items
edit- Tomasz will schedule a long-term maps meeting
- Chris will follow up with Yuri about a blog post regarding graphing pageviews (Victor Grigas wants to do a video)
- Yuri will check with Volker/Julien; will report back (esp. to Tomasz)
- Yuri will write up 2 goal scenarios