Wikimedia Search Team/Meeting Minutes/2015-04-02

2015-04-02

New Meeting Structure

• Combining WDQS and Cirrus into one meeting

Status

• Nik
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89852 (Syncing into Blazegraph)
  • Continuing work on (e.g. handle WD dates)
  • When has access to full dump, will test munging
• Stas
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91691 (RDF exports)
  • Can generate passable dump. Enable next week on actual sites. Performance is tolerable.
  • Looked into BlazeGraph stuff. Nik's code was mostly as expected.
  • Need to figure out details (e.g. dates, ontology)
  • WD team has Easter vacation, so quiet there next week
• James
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88724 (Russian)
    • Continuing work. Big. Updating several -1 pull requests.
    • Original bug description is misleading--not Russian-specific. General search weirdness.
    • Will try to split up and prioritize.
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93014 (Highlighting)
  • Fixing a bunch of -1's related to these
• Jan
  • Got patches for script to run and produced dump of testwiki
  • Running on group 0 didn't work. Will wait until it is on group 1.
• Other
  • We did deploy to production yesterday as planned.

To Discuss

• Any reason for a team mailing list? NOT YET...revisit in a month
  • What mailing list(s) should be listed for the team? None for now
• Any reason for a team IRC channel? NO
  • What IRC channels should be listed for the team? #mediawiki-core

Story Triage/Splitting/Prioritizing

• WDQS:
  • Native: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/891/
  • WDQS filter in core: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/sprint/board/37/query/g9Qnn9nf9g12/
• Cirrus: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/sprint/board/37/query/B82LiBxgbngj/