Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-09-27

= Topics from the past =
 * Ops offsite Sept 26-30
 * So no deploys (except emergencies)
 * Guillaume limited availability
 * RelEng offsite Oct 17-21
 * So no train deploys that week
 * Kevin will be mostly unavailable

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * TPG shadow, tentatively Oct 24-Nov 4
 * Natalia joined TPG as an agile specialist. To become familiar with what we do, she'll spend a couple weeks shadowing each other TPGer.
 * We're not exactly sure what shadowing will mean, but generally observing meetings
 * OIT will be somewhat less available this Friday (Sept 30)
 * Reminder: When you’re out, please create a “busy” event on your calendar AND rsvp “no” to all your meetings. Thanks!!!

= 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
 * Reading web is “Improving search exp in mobile web”
 * Reading web is “Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis”

Discovery News

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

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) = (Status below last updated 2016-09-21. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

FY 2016-17 Q1 Key Results
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q1_Goals#Discovery
 * Search
 * Make BM25 algorithm the default
 * (No increase in zero results rate or decrease in search user engagement rate)
 * Won’t happen this quarter; should be early Oct.
 * Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
 * Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
 * Yellow status. Unlikely to be in the condition we had hoped.
 * Portal
 * Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
 * Won’t happen this quarter due to “no deploys”; should be early Oct.

= FYI =
 * Monthly metrics this Thursday Sept 29
 * Kevin prefers to watch the recording later at 1.5x or 2x speed
 * Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled October 5
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * Next All-Discovery retro October 10