Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-05-02

= Topics from the past =
 * [wikitech-l] Deployment train will freeze for the weeks of April 17th and May 1st
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Switch_Datacenter
 * FYI: Conference rooms in the office theoretically now require you to “check in” for your meetings, or you might lose the room
 * Updates on Product/Tech tune-up (tuna)
 * C-level decision meeting postponed until May 9
 * Still trying to sort out the analyst situation
 * We have permission to discuss the tune-up publicly
 * Kevin is now tentatively slotted into Technology (rather than Editing)
 * [Discovery] Maps style preview request for feedback
 * If the server is down, ping Paul on IRC

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Should we be worried if we haven’t heard anything concrete about Offsite and/or Hackathon hotel info yet?
 * No. As long as you registered for both events, your hotel should be booked
 * Expect to see a manifest from Travel at some point
 * Interesting question on “questions in search queries” on the English Wikipedia. I don’t know if anyone needs/wants to respond, but it’s an interesting community discussion to read.
 * Upcoming WMF employee engagement survey (May 8-20)
 * HIGHLY recommended you fill it out next week, before you travel, if possible
 * Upcoming WMF employee annual performance reviews start May 22
 * Start thinking about who you will ask to write peer reviews
 * Offsite
 * Draft agenda has been updated:
 * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LZ8sTAcHVhsuxW3XPnhomPq173sLEWO5sg3V6P3uLp8/edit#
 * It is not final, and will continue to be refined this week
 * We will have a google calendar and gchat set up for the event
 * Q: Should we prepare anything? Can we help?
 * Reflect on how things have been going
 * Think about how things might work best with the new org structure
 * Think about any unconference topics you might want to propose

= Scrum of Scrums = Are we blocked? Are we blocking? Other dependencies (in either direction) which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are progressing smoothly, have no urgency, etc.)
 * None
 * None
 * None

Discovery News

 * See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) = Discovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ

This status was last updated 2017-04-11. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.

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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * Stabilize and fix high priority bugs

= FYI =
 * May 3: CREDIT showcase
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * OOO
 * See also: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lnCqgouV1mmTos-bicIvozubrrzDjCi8gQAoTmNuKgQ/edit#gid=0
 * Erika taking vacation days May 4-5
 * Deb off May 3, 5 and ½ of 8th
 * David off May 8th
 * May 14-18: Discovery offsite in Vienna (right before the hackathon)
 * May 19-21: Hackathon in Vienna (right after the offsite)
 * May 29: US holiday
 * 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 most probably off for a Thursday / Friday in June (no precise date yet)