Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-09-08

Topics from last week

 * WDQS announcement status
 * Yes, it was announced
 * Offsite ready for booking travel?
 * YES! Email was sent with instructions for setting up travel

Announcements, Information, Questions

 * If you don’t plan to attend the Jan all staff offsite, let your manager know ASAP
 * They are still soliciting ideas for themes for the all-staff event
 * Agenda for Discovery offsite is under development
 * Try to coordinate arrival in Orlando, so we can carpool to Canaveral
 * Maps team is in final planning for a maps beta announcement
 * Working with a Community Liaison
 * Plans underway to get a full-time CL person for Discovery
 * Have hired one front-end developer; second is in progress
 * Data analysts are becoming a thing in other departments
 * Yuri would like some data analysis help with maps and also with graphs
 * VE can now edit graphs
 * Good progress updating search cluster docs (mostly Erik)
 * We shared our plans with Denny(?) at Google, and he likes what he heard/saw
 * Dan/Tomasz met with apps team about deep linking; create more seamless experience on iOS
 * Asked iOS team to set up metrics so we know how much traffic is coming through that way

Scrum of Scrums

 * Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?
 * Android team reported:
 * “Better search prioritization; when searching for ‘obama’, the Barack Obama article now appears before ‘I Got a Crush... on Obama’”
 * “Nearby maps beta release coming up”
 * Yuri and Max will talk to them


 * Are we blocked?
 * Security completed the Kafka security review (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109384)
 * Patches (including upstream) are in; service should start working next week (around the 15th)
 * Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
 * VE Bug caused by search results (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796)
 * Brad has OK’d Erik’s latest proposed solution; engineering work on it hasn't started yet

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update
(How are we doing; any current or imminent work to improve them)
 * Deploy Maps to Production
 * Has been deployed; cleaning up loose ends
 * Deploy WDQS to Production
 * Has been deployed; cleaning up loose ends
 * Reducing Zero results
 * Goal has a “Yellow” status
 * High priority to get the next test (suggester) rolled out
 * Patch needs to be reviewed today, so A/B test will go live Thursday
 * Defining Satisfaction metric
 * Quantitative: We have a plan, which will be URL-based but won’t break caching
 * Qualitative: Need to put a survey on search results for subset of users
 * Meeting with duckduckgo (next week?) about how to track satisfaction
 * Measuring API usage
 * Completed.

FYI

 * Next Discovery retrospective: Sept 14
 * Next Discovery showcase: Sept 21
 * Gerrit cleanup day: Wed Sept 23
 * Discovery Offsite Sept 30-Oct 2 (details TBA)