Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-09-12

= Topics from the past =
 * CREDIT showcase is tomorrow (was last week)
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfBQ6H14_SM
 * SPARQL workshop Thursday
 * https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/SPARQL_workshop
 * Feedback was positive
 * Sept 13: Discernatron & BM25 demo / luncheon
 * SF gets food, but otherwise remote friendly
 * Reading web is “Improving search exp in mobile web”
 * Dan will discuss w/Reading product mgmt this week
 * Reading web is “Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis”
 * Dan will discuss w/Reading product mgmt this week

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Discernatron lunch tomorrow!
 * Product/Tech meetings in SF this week
 * Next Monday (Sept 19) is both “Talk Like a Pirate Day”, and in some countries, a federal holiday (Guillaume is off next Monday - and not today like some people seem to believe)
 * was launched everywhere
 * Ops offsite Sept 26-30, Guillaume will have limited availability
 * Yuri: Thanks to Stas for the impressive “governors” demo query
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/maplink#/maplink/0

= 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
 * Reading web is “Improving search exp in mobile web”
 * Reading web is “Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis”

Discovery News

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

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) = (Status below last updated 2016-09-06. 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)
 * Seems to be on track
 * Evaluate and devise plan for using cross-project indices, which would allow users to search across all projects in any given language.
 * Seems to be on track (tons of village pump outreach last week)
 * Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
 * Make tag available for all wiki projects, and available everywhere except Wikipedia.
 * DONE!
 * Have solution for VE blocker
 * Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
 * Should deliver something by the end of quarter
 * Portal
 * Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
 * Have been blocked, but not any more. Delayed by Discernatron work. Still on track.
 * Continue to update article stats on a regular basis (last updated: Aug 4)
 * On track

= FYI =
 * Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled October 5
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * Next All-Discovery retro October 10