Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-06-28

= Topics from the past =
 * (none)

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Deb will be product owner for search starting in Q1 (see email for details)
 * Several people will be taking vacations in July/August. Those who do will update their calendar accordingly.
 * This coming Monday (July 4) is a WMF holiday

= Scrum of Scrums = Blocked Dependencies which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are not longer a blocker) Are we blocking? Discovery News
 * (none)
 * “Should HTML formatting/DOM manip (presentation, responsiveness) be done in JS (frontend) or in PHP (backend)”
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136458
 * Discussion is ongoing; input is welcome from everyone in the tech community
 * Looks like it might have to be done on the front end
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
 * See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) = (Status below last updated 2016-06-21. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

Q4 Key Results

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discovery
 * Search
 * Run TextCat A/B test
 * English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German tests are running now; had to be restarted; will be turned off Thursday
 * (Maybe push TextCat to production)
 * Maps/Interactive
 * Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
 * Mostly done on enwv; cleaning up
 * ru migrated, de migrating
 * Should reach out to other communities with a simple informational note on village pump
 * Re-confirmed that the Portal "run 3 tests and put one into production" goal has been completed

= FYI =
 * Wikimania June 21-28
 * Next Discovery team retrospectives: Scheduled June 30-July 7
 * Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled July 7
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * Next All-Discovery retro July 11