Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-10-25

= Topics from the past =
 * Thanks GL for filling in with facilitation last week!
 * WMF values conversations; everyone is encouraged (not required) to sign up
 * Quarterly review went well, generally
 * From SoS: “Winter is coming... Annual reminder to please postpone risky rollouts till after December's fundraising campaign”
 * TODO: Katie still needs to talk to Greg to see what constraints we have
 * Erika started (last) week!
 * From [wikitech-l]: O’Reilly has released several ebooks at zero cost

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * TPG shadow: Natalia will be joining Discovery meetings for the next couple weeks
 * Cubs are in the world series (first time in 71 yrs)
 * Will there be any train interruptions through the rest of the year?
 * No details at this point
 * Mikhail will present at Metrics this Thursday

= 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
 * None

Discovery News

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

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) = (Status below last updated 2016-10-11. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

FY 2016-17 Q2 Key Results
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals#Discovery
 * Search
 * Enable the backend for cross-project indices on all Wikimedia projects
 * Enrich the data stored in ElasticSearch to allow targeted improvements to result relevance (Migrate away from "all" field in Elasticsearch)
 * We are early in the quarter, so far so good
 * Quarterly Review: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uem20E4P_e94yTfWpX8wQkbV8cDuNkja913TDonYATs/edit
 * Discovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ
 * Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
 * Increase maps and graphs usage on Wikipedia
 * Once map frame is launched, we expect KPI to increase fast
 * Enable shareable Geoshapes and Tabular data storage on Commons

= FYI =
 * Oct 27: Monthly metrics (Thursday)
 * Oct 24 - Nov 11: Dan will be in the UK for work visa renewal
 * Oct 24 - Oct 28: Dan’s availability is very sketchy for this week
 * Oct 31: Gentle reminder to submit your proposals for Wikimedia Developer Summit. The deadline is 31 Oct for topic proposals.
 * Interactive needs to decide what specific areas to discuss with the community. Long term ideas: external data consumption. Short term goals: on-wiki data storage, integrating graphs/Polestar/...
 * Nov 1: Spark Project sharing deadline
 * Nov 2: Next Showcase (“CREDIT”)
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * Jan 5: Next All-Discovery retro