Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-02-21

= Topics from the past =
 * Annual planning is underway (The first draft is due by 22nd February)
 * Brainstorming doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZzTHJOrqxU7-guCvPmjJ8tgZf7eY8C-Gg1xp0JHFLoU
 * Dan will share first draft of goals with Discovery
 * Registering for Hackathon is open (all Discovery members are approved)
 * Assume Thursday arrival at Hackathon hotel (leaving the offsite hotel on Thursday)


 * Firefox might lose support for hangouts at the end of this month

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * [Engineering] “Analytics Cluster Hadoop Upgrade and Downtime: February 28 2017”
 * Collab Jam this week
 * Budget-minded folks from across the WMF are meeting to share draft annual plans and resolve cross-departmental dependencies

= 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
 * Kartotherian (maps) and Node6:

Discovery News

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

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) = Discovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ

This status was last updated 2017-02-21. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.

FY 2016-17 Q3 (Jan-Mar) Key Results
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q3_Goals#Discovery
 * upgrading to Elasticsearch 5
 * Upgrade search cluster to Elasticsearch 5
 * In progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154501
 * Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
 * In progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154503
 * deploying new language analysers
 * Perform research spikes to find new analysers for different languages
 * Polish is done; Chinese underway https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158202
 * Test new analysers to see if they are improvements
 * Polish is done; Chinese planned https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158203
 * Deploy new analysers that are found to be an improvement
 * Deployment of Polish is planned https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158682
 * cross-wiki searching
 * Have a working prototype in Labs
 * Done
 * Run at least 2 A/B tests on Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias
 * A/B/C test is underway: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149806

= FYI =
 * Mar 1: CREDIT showcase
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * Mar 12: US Daylight Saving Time starts
 * Mar 13: WMF Holiday(!)
 * Mar 16 Next All-Discovery retro
 * April 14: WMF Holiday(!)
 * May 14-18: Discovery offsite in Vienna (right before the hackathon)
 * May 19-21: Hackathon in Vienna (right after the offsite)