Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-06-20

= Topics from the past =
 * Staff annual reviews: Deadline for managers to complete all 1:1 meetings with direct reports and provide written feedback in Namely. (2017-06-30)
 * https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/FY_2016-17_Annual_Review_and_Retrospective
 * Submit your offsite/hackathon expense reports!!
 * Deb volunteered to be an additional admin, with Chris, for the discovery and discovery-private mailing lists.
 * Sister project snippets in the search results page was turned on Thursday, June 15
 * Discovery will continue to send out weekly updates, and Chris will compile into the monthly Reading updates
 * Announcement for Discovery team goals / updates went out 2017-06-13
 * https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-June/087777.html

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Future of Maps document is still a work in progress
 * Preparing for Wikimania

= 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 2017-06-20. 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 DONE
 * Build out data munging and data pipeline to develop new models DONE
 * Deploy automated model which matches current performance of manually-configured search result relevance NOT THIS Q?
 * Begin performing load tests on new models to make sure they can be safely deployed to production SHOULD START SOON (on relforge)
 * Improve search support for different languages by researching and deploying new language analyzers
 * Perform research spikes to find new analyzers for different languages DONE
 * Test new analyzers to see if they are improvements DONE
 * Deploy new analyzers that are found to be an improvement DONE
 * Re-index affected wikis (Ukrainian and Chinese) DONE
 * Refine and test new design of search results page with occasional deployments
 * Test new functionality with at least 2 A/B tests WILL DO ONE THIS WEEK
 * Analyze tests and gather community feedback FINISHED UP ONE FROM Q3
 * Roll out new functionality with small releases to production across all Wikipedias DONE
 * Stabilize maps and graphs code base
 * Stabilize and fix high priority bugs
 * Only 2 remaining open tasks for minimum stabilization (disputed borders and header expiration)

= FYI =
 * June 21: Research Showcase
 * Signup: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
 * June 29: Monthly Metrics
 * Info: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings
 * July 4: US holiday
 * July 5: CREDIT showcase ??
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * July 18: All-Discovery retro
 * July 24 - August 4: WMF staff encouraged to work remotely
 * There is another remote week or two when the office move happens
 * Sep 18 - 29th
 * Aug 15: WMF holiday
 * Sep 4: US holiday
 * OOO
 * Erika OOO June 20-22 (WikiLead)
 * Jan off July 3 - 7
 * Guillaume on vacation from July 10 - 21st
 * Paul off July 16 - 23 (vacation/camp)
 * David (August: wikimania + vacation 2 weeks after the event, back on Aug 29)
 * Deb Aug 8 - 14 Wikimania and Hackathon
 * Stas Aug 10 - 17 Wikimania + Structured data offsite
 * Paul off August 18 - 20 + travel (State of the Map)
 * Paul off October 19 - 22 + travel (State of the Map US)
 * Deb off October 19 - 20 for State of the Map US