Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-05-31

= Topics from the past =
 * Dan plans to put search goals/roadmap on-wiki once he is done with annual reviews.
 * Dan will do this afternoon
 * FDC review: Interactive plans were good, but metrics for success were slightly underdefined - Tomasz/Yuri to talk about that.
 * Made progress. Maps team will work with Katie.
 * FDC Comments about coordination of analysis across the organisation were raised - Dan should investigate.
 * Seems to be being handled outside of Discovery (Dario)
 * Dario is moving towards making the Research_FAQ on officewiki public to try to alleviate this
 * Dan read over this FAQ and its characterisation of Discovery’s responsibilities and ways to get us to do things seem accurate to him
 * Katie Horn will be Head of Discovery.
 * Dan on vacation from 2nd June until 21st June (inclusive)

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Katie will be in SF on Thursday and Friday, June 2 and 3. There will be free time to meet between 1:30 and 4:30 on Friday, probably openly on the 5th floor. Add time to Katie’s calendar if you have different ideas.
 * Submit any outstanding expense reports ASAP! (Fiscal year is ending)
 * For search offsite, send to Katie and Dan
 * Today is the last day to register with a big discount for the world maps conference in Brussels

= Scrum of Scrums = Blocked Dependencies which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are not longer a blocker) Are we blocking? Discovery News
 * Portal update script https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135029
 * (none)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
 * Zero has been asking for Yuri’s help
 * Graphs/maps spec.yaml need Yuri’s help
 * See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) =

Q4 Key Results

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discovery
 * Search
 * Run TextCat A/B test
 * English test is running now; others to follow
 * (Maybe push TextCat to production)
 * Update Elasticsearch
 * Happening this week
 * Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
 * Won’t happen--elasticsearch removed that feature
 * WDQS
 * Add geocoordinate functionality
 * We believe this is done
 * Maps/Interactive
 * Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
 * Hope to start switching templates within a week
 * Create use case page for maps
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Conversation_about_interactive_map_use
 * (That page could use additional work)
 * Portal
 * Run at least 3 A/B tests
 * Two have been run so far; another one should start this week
 * 3 more scheduled (tentatively)
 * Qualtrics survey completed (how did visitor get to portal)
 * Graduate at least 1 successful A/B test
 * Pushed descriptive text for sister projects
 * Will push language detection and re-sorting primary links this week

= FYI =
 * Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled June 1
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * Next Discovery retrospectives: Scheduled late May/early June
 * Wikimania June 21-28
 * All-Discovery retro maybe mid-to-late-July?