Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-03-29

= Topics from the past =
 * Book your offsite/hackathon travel (see email)
 * Reminder: Daylight Saving Time (aka “summer time”) is in effect for 98% of the US, and now also Europe
 * FYI: Movement strategy conversations (cycle 1) are running until April 15
 * Question: Any updates from management about future of maps or potential Product re-org?
 * Re-org ideas are planned to be posted tomorrow
 * Maps future has not yet been decided (as far as I know)
 * Question: Status of design position hiring?
 * Still in progress

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Should we clean up who is “voiced” in the discovery IRC channel?
 * E.g. tfinc is, but ebernhardson isn’t
 * Erik will do a bit of cleanup
 * Do we all need loaner laptops for Vienna?
 * If you’re not sure, do a self-inventory of what’s on your laptop, then contact apalmer@wikimedia.org for guidance
 * Security Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsG0T81qcRI

= Scrum of Scrums = Are we blocked? Are we blocking? 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) = Discovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ

This status was last updated 2017-03-14. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.

Preview of FY 2016-17 Q4 (Apr-Jun) goals: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q4_Goals#Discovery

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
 * Done
 * Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
 * In progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154503
 * Won’t happen this quarter; under discussion
 * Researching and deploying new language analysers
 * Perform research spikes to find new analysers for different languages
 * Polish, Chinese, Ukrainian are done https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158202
 * Test new analysers to see if they are improvements
 * Polish is done; Chinese & Ukrainian underway https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158203
 * Deploy new analysers that are found to be an improvement
 * Polish has been deployed! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158682
 * Cross-wiki searching
 * Run at least 2 A/B tests on Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias
 * A/B/C test ended: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149806
 * A/B test ended; analysis underway
 * Stabilize maps and graphs code base
 * Won’t end at the quarter boundary; major progress has been made

= FYI =
 * March 29: Next work-centric unmeeting
 * April 5: CREDIT showcase
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * 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)
 * July 18: Next All-Discovery retro
 * July 24-August 4: WMF staff encouraged to work remotely