Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-10-11

= Topics from the past =
 * Reading web
 * is “Improving search exp in mobile web”
 * is “Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis”
 * Deb/Dan/Jan met w/Reading folks
 * Agreed that search on mobile would be taken care of by Reading teams
 * Nirzar/Olga agreed to follow-up if anything pertinent is happening
 * RelEng offsite Oct 17-21
 * So no train deploys that week
 * Kevin will be mostly unavailable
 * Guillaume will facilitate next week’s checkin
 * Gentle reminder to submit your proposals for Wikimedia Developer Summit. The deadline is 31 Oct for topic proposals.
 * Spark Project sharing deadline is Nov 1.

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Anything the whole group should know from the ops offsite?
 * Nothing specific. Good ops-y discussions.
 * Weird spike in our metrics graph, noticed by Mikhail
 * Nothing newsworthy
 * WMF values conversations; everyone is encouraged (not required) to sign up
 * FYI: Yuri will be Discovery’s substitute rep for Scrum of Scrums this week (Oct 12)
 * Dan, Stas, and Chris attended Wikiconference North America 2016
 * Lots of wikidata-related talks
 * Talks about structured data on commons
 * Knowledge Engine retrospective (apparently went well)
 * Mxn gave a maps+wdqs talk; there were other maps-related talks
 * Guillaume will be presenting Elasticsearch to our Ops team this Friday.

= 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 2016-10-11. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

FY 2016-17 Q1 Key Results
NOTE: Q2 goals will show up here next week

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q1_Goals#Discovery
 * Search
 * Make BM25 algorithm the default
 * (No increase in zero results rate or decrease in search user engagement rate)
 * We are close to deploying for some languages; other languages have issues with word breaks
 * Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
 * Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
 * Was deployed shortly after quarter ended
 * Portal
 * Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
 * Was pushed to production on Oct 11, 2016

= FYI =
 * Next All-Discovery retro October 13
 * Discovery Quarterly Review (presenting Q1 goal results) Monday, Oct 17
 * Monthly metrics Thursday October 27
 * Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled November 2
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT