Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-11-15

= Topics from the past =
 * Reminder about upcoming deployment interruptions
 * Nov 21-25: No train (also no deploys that Wed-Fri)
 * Dec 19-30: No deploys
 * Jan 9: No train (dev summit/all-hands)
 * Note new staff guidelines for behavior at events and on projects (office wiki)

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Dan is moving to Ireland! 7th March 2017. (He'll continue working in his current role.)
 * Announced upcoming shared tabular/map data on Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Launching_shared_maps_and_data_on_Commons
 * Product head meetings this week (new plan is to meet in person quarterly)
 * File property search on Commons is well received by the communities.
 * Dan is off 16th November.
 * Interactive Team’s roadmap published: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery#Maps

= 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.)
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Discovery News

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

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) = (Status below last updated 2016-11-15. 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 searches on all Wikimedia projects
 * Back end: Load test (the real potential blocker) was deployed/undeployed, will be redeployed
 * Front end: Reached out to communities for A/B tests; got one, want more. Meetings w/Nirzar about design are progressing
 * Enrich the data stored in ElasticSearch to allow targeted improvements to result relevance (Migrate away from "all" field in Elasticsearch)
 * Done for top 10 projects. Depending on analysis, might reindex wikis, or might have to fix space issue for some languages
 * 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
 * Updating commons template increased usage a lot (overall requests up by 10x)
 * Researching low uptake on ruwiki (fewer articles than hoped)
 * Enable shareable Geoshapes and Tabular data storage on Commons
 * Now enabled on beta labs (commons and other wikis)
 * Hope to deploy widely next week
 * Some progress on geojson; need to add support for maps and graphs

= FYI =
 * Nov 16: Research Showcase (Wednesday)
 * Nov 17: Monthly metrics (Thursday)
 * Nov 24-25 Holiday (Thanksgiving)
 * Dec 7: Next Showcase (“CREDIT”)
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * Dec 26-30: Holiday
 * Jan 5: Next All-Discovery retro
 * Jan 9-11: Dev Summit (SF)
 * Jan 12-13: All-hands (SF)
 * Some of us not going to the Dev Summit will be coming in a day early
 * Discovery dinner? :) +1+1 +1000