Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-06-21

= Topics from the past =
 * (none)

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Erik will remain the tech lead for Q1
 * Discovery will present at July metrics meeting (rather than June)

= 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
 * Portal update script blocked on ops https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135029
 * Guillaume will check to see if we can help move it along
 * Stas will work with Max to make sure the task contains enough information for anyone to understand it
 * Kevin will set up a meeting to try to unblock this and find an owner
 * “Should HTML formatting/DOM manip (presentation, responsiveness) be done in JS (frontend) or in PHP (backend)”
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136458
 * (none)
 * 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 2016-06-14. 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 test is running now; had to be restarted; will be turned off Thursday
 * (Maybe push TextCat to production)
 * Maps/Interactive
 * Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
 * Switching templates in progress, done on enwv for most functionality; cleaning up; ru migrated; may reach out to other communities

= 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