Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-11-17

Topics from the past

• Quick hiring status/update
• December deployment freeze for Language?
  • Dan/Erik will decide by next week
• Tomasz will be publishing more details about upcoming Discovery work, especially as it relates to the “Knowledge Engine” concept
  • Has been started; early phases; plans to send out today
• Reminder to use public mailing list (instead of private) whenever possible

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Portal
  • is now deployed from gerrit
  • event logging will be added very shortly (hopefully today)
• Quick survey hopefully will be added to this week . Will appear on the article page, which the user clicked through to from search results, which they got to from either the portal search box, or the in-wiki search box
  • Moiz is leading
  • Target is Thursday Nov 19
  • Simple yes/no question about whether they found what they were looking for
• Q3 goals
  • Current draft goals are old; will be rewritten
  • To propose something, go ahead and add it directly to the Q3 goals page
  • Plan is to have them “finalized” and up for review by early December

Scrum of Scrums

Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?

Blocked

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114694 - waiting for scap3 deployment

Blocking

• Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update

• Q2 goals intro/refresher
  • Languages
  • Portal
  • Analysis

(I didn't capture the discussion, but Dan will update the statuses on the goals page.)

FYI

• Holiday Nov 26-27 (Thurs/Fri)
• Next Discovery retrospective: Nov 30
• Next Showcase (Discovery+Reading): Not yet scheduled
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/rdshowcase
• Holiday Dec 25 (Friday)
• Holiday Jan 1 (Friday)
• Dev Summit Jan 4-6
• All-hands Jan 7-8
• Discovery Summit Jan 11-12