Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-11-17

= Topics from the past =
 * Quick hiring status/update
 * December deployment freeze for Language?
 * Dan/Erik will decide by next week
 * Tomasz will be publishing more details about upcoming Discovery work, especially as it relates to the “Knowledge Engine” concept
 * Has been started; early phases; plans to send out today
 * Reminder to use public mailing list (instead of private) whenever possible

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Portal
 * is now deployed from gerrit
 * event logging will be added very shortly (hopefully today)
 * Quick survey hopefully will be added to this week . Will appear on the article page, which the user clicked through to from search results, which they got to from either the portal search box, or the in-wiki search box
 * Moiz is leading
 * Target is Thursday Nov 19
 * Simple yes/no question about whether they found what they were looking for
 * Q3 goals
 * Current draft goals are old; will be rewritten
 * To propose something, go ahead and add it directly to the Q3 goals page
 * Plan is to have them “finalized” and up for review by early December

=Scrum of Scrums= Anything from SoS that we should be aware of? Blocked Blocking
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114694 - waiting for scap3 deployment
 * Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update = (I didn't capture the discussion, but Dan will update the statuses on the goals page.)
 * Q2 goals intro/refresher
 * Languages
 * Portal
 * Analysis

= FYI =
 * Holiday Nov 26-27 (Thurs/Fri)
 * Next Discovery retrospective: Nov 30
 * Next Showcase (Discovery+Reading): Not yet scheduled
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/rdshowcase
 * Holiday Dec 25 (Friday)
 * Holiday Jan 1 (Friday)
 * Dev Summit Jan 4-6
 * All-hands Jan 7-8
 * Discovery Summit Jan 11-12