Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-05-30

= Topics from the past =
 * Staff annual reviews started May 22
 * https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/FY_2016-17_Annual_Review_and_Retrospective

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Adam and Jon have been invited to this (weekly checkin) meeting
 * [wikitech-l] New Architecture Committee draft charter (and rename to T-Comm):
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Charter
 * Should we continue to have this meeting after the team splits?
 * Yes, let’s continue. If it gets awkward we can make changes
 * Does wikimania budget roll over to new team structure?
 * KH: Generally the budget got split. I no longer have say over who goes to what events.
 * Technology department will have various in-person meetings throughout the year, mostly just for managers/leadership
 * Namely UI for adding reviewers is not entirely intuitive, so if you haven’t heard from people you expected to, check with them.
 * Deb has worked through some of the tricky parts of the UI, so feel free to contact her if you are having trouble

= 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
 * 2017-05-10: iOS: Enhanced search visibility: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130159
 * 2017-05-17: Please update extensions you maintain to add a compatibility policy! see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-May/088190.html
 * 2017-05-17: Preliminary support for Debian Stretch in labs (on a per project basis)

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 2017-05-30. 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 =
 * June 5: Tune-up (🐟) changes go into effect
 * June 7: CREDIT showcase
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * 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 off June 8-9
 * David off June 5 (public holiday)
 * Katie out for fr-tech offsite 6/4 to 6/8
 * Erika OOO June 8-9 (vacation)
 * Erika OOO June 20-22 (WikiLead)