Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2016-03-08

= Topics from the past =
 * Annual planning (submitted to finance on Friday Mar 4)
 * https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ouvgA_wH41veBrcrJpJ6mnBkVjV156f1EpEvGHVjoOU/edit#gid=2040510228
 * Q4 goals (draft is due on Friday Mar 4)
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals
 * Dan will list team member assignments on mw.o Discovery page
 * DONE
 * Discovery weekly status reports (Chris)
 * In progress

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Worth spending more effort on documentation (e.g. TextCat)?
 * Will discuss next week when Tomasz, Dan, and Deb are here
 * Portal team had good meeting about roadmap and next quarter’s plans
 * Tentatively leaning toward showing trending articles
 * Maps got deployed to wikivoyage
 * WDQS front end can display maps
 * Quicksurvey: Met w/Adam and team; will go with the simple option that will be slower for selected users. Need to sync w/reading and legal about privacy link. Should happen next week.

= Scrum of Scrums = Blocked Blocking
 * Stas and Yuri will talk to ops about SPARQL query caching
 * Discussed; found bug which ops will fix
 * Open question about how long cache should live
 * SVG sanitizer security review (graphs)
 * Maps hardware
 * Waiting for ops reply
 * 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):

 * Completion suggester: Roll out to full production: Plans being worked out
 * Review ES configuration: In progress
 * Quick survey for search results: At risk
 * Portal: Graduate at least one to production: In progress; taking longer than expected
 * Portal: Run 3 A/B tests: At risk (one has been run, need two more)
 * WDQS: Research and understand Geospatial: In progress. Might even get it implemented.
 * Maps: Wikivoyage in all languages: In progress (most major ones are done)

Q4 goals

 * draft should be finished

= FYI =
 * Next Discovery retrospective: March 21 (but the format might change before them)
 * Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): April 6
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT