Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-11-08

= Topics from the past =
 * From SoS: “Winter is coming... Annual reminder to please postpone risky rollouts till after December's fundraising campaign” (note: any dates not listed here are normal deployment days)
 * Nov 21-25: No train (also no deploys that Wed-Fri)
 * Dec 19-30: No deploys
 * Jan 9: No train (dev summit/all-hands)
 * [wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2016 has been announced: A contest for 13-17 year old students. November 2016. For more info, see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016#Mentors.27_corner
 * * Do your docs on your wiki need some improvements?
 * * Does your template or gadget code needs some updates?
 * * Do you have small and self-contained bugs you'd love to get fixed?
 * * Does your UI have small design issues?
 * * Do your old bugs welcome some testing?
 * Katie in office Nov 8-9

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Note new staff guidelines for behavior at events and on projects (office wiki)
 * [wikitech-l] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28  is rather bare and needs more people to fill it out and highlight the cool new things that were developed in this release cycle!
 * Reminder: Friday Nov 11 is a WMF holiday

= 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
 * None

Discovery News

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

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) = (Status below last updated 2016-11-01. 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
 * Enrich the data stored in ElasticSearch to allow targeted improvements to result relevance (Migrate away from "all" field in Elasticsearch)
 * So far so good
 * 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
 * Once map frame is launched, we expect KPI to increase fast
 * Past week went from 20-25k pages using maps to 2.5 million pages and growing (thanks to commons template update using maplink for any  media that has geo coordinates)
 * Enable shareable Geoshapes and Tabular data storage on Commons
 * Now enabled on beta labs (commons and other wikis)
 * Some progress on geojson; need to add support for maps and graphs

= FYI =
 * Nov 11: Holiday (Veterans Day)
 * 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