Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-03-22

= Topics from the past =
 * Reminder: Submit items for the Status Discovery updates
 * Portal dashboard has not yet shown increase in searching which we were expecting; too early to tell
 * Still haven’t seen a big change: Mikhail is working on a phab task for it

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Update/reminder about new backlog boards in phab
 * Expect workboard changes "soonish"
 * Reminder: Update calendars to reflect any time off/unavailability
 * Analysis and maps teams have had retros; 25 minutes is short, but otherwise good

= Scrum of Scrums = Blocked Blocking
 * SPARQL query caching still an issue but not a blocker; really just an ops issue
 * New WDQS problem appears to be related to varnish; Stas will follow up https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127014
 * SVG sanitizer security review (graphs)
 * Maps hardware
 * Stalled waiting on finance
 * Elastic hardware
 * Might be moving?
 * Are we blocking?   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) =

Q3 goals (excluding those that are done):

 * Quick survey for search results: Unlikely to be completed
 * Portal: Run 3 A/B tests: At risk (we ran an a/b/c test and plan to run one more starting today)
 * Portal: Question about whether the lack of impact of the work that was pushed to production should count as a success
 * Maps: Wikivoyage in all languages: Deployed but adoption of German and Dutch is blocked on community ???

Q4 goals

 * draft is up: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discovery
 * Dan needs to cut them down; will schedule office hours
 * WDQS and maps still don’t have goals, so those teams should add candidates
 * Proposal to cut analysis goal, reflecting the new team size

= FYI =
 * Next Discovery retrospective: team retrospectives are in progress
 * Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): April 6
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT