Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2016-02-23

= Topics from the past =
 * Dan will schedule the next session to talk about the strategy part of our annual plan (aiming for tomorrow)
 * Happened. Will do another this week.

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Maps planning session right after this meeting today
 * Trouble booking hackathon travel?
 * Apparently not
 * We think about 5 Discovery people are going
 * Chris K out of office Fri March 4 to Wed March 9
 * Larger showcase feedback?
 * Some feel more involved; others feel less involved
 * Harder to put yourself in front of 100 people than 10
 * Feels like there is a higher bar, whereas the original team showcase was informal
 * Feels more like metrics (large space, public broadcast)
 * Yuri treats everyone as if they were a small audience; doesn’t distinguish; no slide deck needed
 * Yuri shared an interactive graph that has been well-received

=Scrum of Scrums= Blocked Blocking
 * Nothing
 * Quicksurvey
 * Stas and Yuri want to talk to ops about SPARQL query caching
 * Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) =
 * Dan is focused more on annual planning right now
 * Q4 goals draft is up, but needs work. Please put proposals on that page.
 * Plan to have discussions first week of March to start to refine Q4 goals
 * Q3 goals:
 * Completion suggester beta: Done
 * Roll out to full production: Plans being worked out
 * Review ES configuration: In progress
 * Integrate pageview data: Is part of completion suggester but would be nice to do fulltext too
 * Quick survey: At risk
 * Portal: Run 3 A/B tests: At risk (one has been run, need two more)
 * Portal: Graduate at least one to production: In progress; taking longer than expected
 * Dan’s advice: Try to pick a date and hit it (to promote the one successful test to production)
 * WDQS: Update blazegraph: In progress. Hit some problems, but may be solved. Looking good
 * WDQS: Research and understand Geospatial: In progress. Might even get it implemented.
 * Maps: Wikivoyage in all languages: en ru are running; message drafted to ask other languages to consider switching

= FYI =
 * Next Showcase ("CREDIT"): March 2
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/showcase
 * Next Discovery retrospective: March 21 (although the structure is still subject to change)