Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-09-06

= Topics from the past =
 * Chris out [this] week (and next Monday)
 * Benoit is watching discussions in my absence

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * CREDIT showcase is tomorrow
 * SPARQL workshop Thursday
 * Discernatron & BM25 demo / luncheon on Sept 13th
 * SF gets food, but otherwise remote friendly

= 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”
 * Dan will take a look
 * Reading web is “Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis”
 * Dan will take a look

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
 * Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
 * Make tag available for all wiki projects, and available everywhere except Wikipedia.
 *  almost went out last week; hopefully this week 
 *  need to resolve issues raised by editing 
 * 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. On track.
 * Continue to update article stats on a regular basis (last updated: Aug 4)
 * On track

= FYI =
 * Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled September 7
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * Next All-Discovery retro TBD (mid-October)