Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-04-18

= Topics from the past =
 * Hopefully by now, everyone has submitted their request for offsite/hackathon travel (see email)
 * [wikitech-l] Deployment train will freeze for the weeks of April 17th and May 1st
 * Datacenter switchover is happening tomorrow: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Switch_Datacenter
 * Quarterly Discovery checkin slides were written, presented, and posted

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Offsite hotel is taken care of; a manifest will probably be circulated by travel within a couple weeks to provide visual confirmation
 * [SoS] safemode=1 URL parameter to not load user scripts and gadgets. Often these cause interference with extension JS, so this can greatly simplify troubleshooting.
 * FYI: Conference rooms in the office will soon require you to “check in” for your meetings, or you might lose the room
 * Updates on Product/Tech tune-up (the "tuna")
 * No big new news

= Scrum of Scrums = Are we blocked? Are we blocking? 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) = Discovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ

This status was last updated 2017-04-11. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.

FY 2016-17 Q4 (Apr-Jun) goals: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q4_Goals#Discovery
 * Improve search by researching and load testing machine learning to automatically re-rank search results
 * Research and develop new models to determine which ones work best
 * Build out data munging and data pipeline to develop new models
 * Deploy automated model which matches current performance of manually-configured search result relevance
 * Begin performing load tests on new models to make sure they can be safely deployed to production
 * Improve search support for different languages by researching and deploying new language analyzers
 * Perform research spikes to find new analyzers for different languages
 * Test new analyzers to see if they are improvements
 * Deploy new analyzers that are found to be an improvement
 * Refine and test new design of search results page with occasional deployments
 * Test new functionality with at least 2 A/B tests
 * Analyze tests and gather community feedback
 * Roll out new functionality with small releases to production across all Wikipedias
 * Stabilize maps and graphs code base
 * Stabilize and fix high priority bugs

= FYI =
 * May 3: CREDIT showcase
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * May 14-18: Discovery offsite in Vienna (right before the hackathon)
 * May 19-21: Hackathon in Vienna (right after the offsite)
 * May 29: US holiday
 * June 19: WMF holiday
 * July 4: US holiday
 * July 18: Next All-Discovery retro
 * July 24-August 4: WMF staff encouraged to work remotely
 * Guillaume on vacation from July 10 to 21st