Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-12-01

= Topics from the past =
 * Analysis team hasn’t been sufficiently notified of changes to data-related backend stuff, leading to missing data on the dashboards.
 * Oliver, Mikhail, Dan will discuss further
 * Quick survey ?
 * Probably not this year (due to external dependencies: inability to track users across wikis)
 * What could we do this quarter? Moiz/Tomasz will ponder; Moiz will meet w/Abby
 * Q3 goals
 * Plan is to have “finalized” drafts up for review by early December
 * Lila laid out a schedule (which we will try to stay ahead of
 * Dan is on it; continue adding suggestions to the Q3 page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q3_Goals

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Quarterly review Jan 21; Tomasz may ask for help
 * Beta feature needs an icon; Dan created a skeletal task for it https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119991
 * Yuri has suggested adding graphs to the dashboard
 * Dan will discuss w/Analysis team
 * Graphs have ongoing maintenance; not all possible graphs should be implemented
 * Reminder that we should embrace the open source approach, accepting contributions from outside the team
 * FYI: Blazegraph will release a new version soon, with geospatial search; might want to integrate into WDQS. Details to come; may be relevant next quarter.

=Scrum of Scrums= Anything from SoS that we should be aware of? Blocked Blocking
 * Nope
 * Max is blocked on ops due to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119541
 * Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update =
 * Search: Improve language search goal is done (feature has a small impact)
 * Report was a PDF. Can we put it on a wiki, or at least upload the PDF?
 * Can we standardize on a report format.
 * Oliver will upload to commons
 * Maps: Yuri will propose some ideas
 * Get it on wiki; then have some interactive meetings
 * Try to align with other teams outside Discovery during the dev summit/all-hands

= FYI =
 * Deployment freeze Dec 1-4
 * Next Showcase (Discovery+Reading+Editing): Dec 14
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/rdshowcase
 * Deployment freeze Dec 18 - Jan 8
 * Holiday Dec 25 (Friday)
 * Next Discovery retrospective: Dec 28
 * Holiday Jan 1 (Friday)
 * Dev Summit Jan 4-6
 * All-hands Jan 7-8
 * Discovery Summit Jan 11-12