Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-08-23

= Topics from the past =
 * Add to the list of code repos we maintain, at the bottom of the Discovery page
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery#Code

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Labor Day holiday Sept 5
 * If you are NOT taking it off, check with your mgr and notify ADP or equivalent
 * Reschedule any meetings
 * Consider creating an all-day/busy event
 * [Wikitech-l] Have you fixed all (some even possibly broken) links to  git.wikimedia.org in your code yet?
 * T139089
 * Quick note on Eng Mgr candidates (they will be moving through the pipeline)
 * Email thread: Change search planning meeting to include more people and be longer?
 * Please reply to that thread if you have thoughts. Thanks to those who have already done so.
 * Chris drafted a section on our roles page for CL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Roles_and_responsibilities#Community_Liaison_.28.22Community_Engagement_for_Software_Deployment.22.29
 * Take a look, and add or update your role as needed
 * Google hangouts on air is being discontinued (Sept 12?)
 * just fyi and might need to check meeting invites, saved videos, etc
 * Switching to youtube
 * Does not affect basic hangouts as we use for normal meetings
 * Interactive team is working on enabling on all Wikipedias

= Scrum of Scrums = Are we blocked? Are we blocking? ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/ ) 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
 * T139378 - implement nearby keyword search - working on this for the Reading Department
 * First iteration done and deployed (in our ‘done’ column)
 * Will wait for feedback and see if any more changes are required

Discovery News

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

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) = (Status below last updated 2016-08-09. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

FY 2016-17 Q1 Key Results
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q1_Goals#Discovery
 * Search
 * Make BM25 algorithm the default
 * (No increase in zero results rate or decrease in search user engagement rate)
 * Evaluate and devise plan for using cross-project indices, which would allow users to search across all projects in any given language.
 * Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
 * Make tag available for all wiki projects, and available everywhere except Wikipedia.
 * Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
 * Portal
 * Graduate latest successful test to production - lang by article count dropdown for the new page layout ✅
 * Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
 * Continue to update article stats on a regular basis (last updated: Aug 4)

= FYI =
 * Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled September 7
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * Next All-Discovery retro TBD (mid-October)
 * Reminder: Draft goals for Q2 due on August 26 (which is Friday) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals#Discovery