Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-01-24

= Topics from the past =
 * (none)

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Very brief discussion about the future of the interactive team
 * Link to public announcement: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2017-January/001421.html
 * Tension on Phabricator
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112948
 * Actively being addressed by Wes et. al.
 * This is only a small and not unexpected pushback
 * How did the Discovery quarterly check-in go?
 * Fine. Good questions, good answers. No surprises.
 * Are these recorded? Not generally.
 * Notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/DiscoveryQuarterlyCheckinJanuary2017
 * Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qVs3q0ZIi6VbTmMec-u4ohsLDVQfqXmgkG3XWkZ_P2I/edit#slide=id.g1c0e8e1e58_0_1497
 * Suggestions for the Developer wishlist are welcome
 * Structured Data on Commons project
 * Roadmaps
 * Technical plans at the moment have some overlap with Discovery (WDQS, cirrus)
 * This will be accounted for in Discovery’s annual plan
 * Team is expected to form Q4 (April-ish) but this is subject to change
 * Staffing
 * Public announcement is in the works
 * Some positions will be filled by internal transfers, others by hiring

= 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) = Past (Q2 Oct-Dec) Quarterly Review: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uem20E4P_e94yTfWpX8wQkbV8cDuNkja913TDonYATs/edit

Discovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ

This status was last updated 2016-12-15. 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
 * Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
 * deploying new language analysers
 * Perform research spikes to find new analysers for different languages
 * Test new analysers to see if they are improvements
 * Deploy new analysers that are found to be an improvement
 * cross-wiki searching
 * Have a working prototype in Labs
 * Run at least 2 A/B tests on Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias

= FYI =
 * Feb 1: CREDIT showcase
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * May Discovery offsite (main planning will happen in Feb/Mar)
 * TBD: Next All-Discovery retro (target late Feb)