Wikimedia Search Team/Meeting minutes/2015-05-04

Checkins

 * Erik:
 * Mostly finished testing. Now elastic search tests only take 5-6 minutes
 * Still working on intermittent failures
 * Initially non-voting, but hopefully eventually voting (to automatically reject patches)
 * Not sure what comes after that--will talk to Nik
 * Max
 * Worked w/Yuri, got tile server to work; it displays maps
 * This week: Get server/datasource to “mostly work”
 * Then work on proof of concept using maps (probably initially a user script on wp)
 * Stas
 * Mostly working on bugs/stability on WD export, and import into core engine
 * New ontology patches finally landing on test, so updating importer to be compatible
 * New ontology will land this Wednesday (or next Wednesday)
 * Yuri
 * Worked w/Max to get tile server working. Will demo something soon.
 * Now working on javascript service and extra features to make something user-visible
 * Dan
 * Diving into data. 4% of page views to all of our sites go to wp.org.
 * Search metrics: bug fixed, but otherwise no progress
 * Tomasz
 * This is the first week fully available to this team
 * Working on hiring, metrics
 * Hoping to present early data findings within about 3 weeks
 * Guiseppe
 * Waiting for Nik on puppetization
 * Moiz
 * Working on hiring
 * Needs to deep dive on Oliver’s data, looking at what we should do on front page
 * Will create resource guide for team (style gudes, etc)
 * Meeting w/Dan and Wes about possible early user-facing work
 * Wes
 * Reminder: Annual reviews
 * Added slide to deck regarding privacy stats
 * Nik worked on budget stuff for hardware
 * Kevin
 * Meetings regarding process
 * Scheduled retrospective

Workboard Walkthrough
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/search-team/
 * Not necessary yet; will probably become part of the agenda later

Scrum of Scrums

 * Are we blocked?
 * For tile server: Need 1 TB server, can be in labs. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97638
 * Are we blocking?
 * No
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

Info/To Discuss

 * Kevin will be out Monday May 11
 * Will arrange for someone to facilitate the Monday checkin
 * Initial WDQS release (0.0.1) Status https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96579
 * Tentative target was “Mid-May”, but might slip toward late May
 * Hope to be through most of the bugs this week
 * Need to define success of the release
 * Dan: We need some kind of metrics instrumentation
 * Kevin will create new task to just release the software: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98037
 * Others will add blocking tasks so we can create a solid plan
 * Search metrics results--Anything new?
 * Oliver presented initial results for homepage: http://ironholds.org/misc/homepage_presentation.html
 * Hackathon (May 23-25)
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2015/Search_and_discovery
 * Review time has begun:
 * https://office.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=WMF_2014_-_2015_Annual_Review_and_Retrospective