Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-03-14

= Topics from the past =
 * Feel free to book your offsite/hackathon travel (see email)
 * Note request to check out Sunday (at the end of the hackathon) if possible
 * Note that we’ll stay at the offsite hotel Thursday night
 * [Wikitech-l] Prague Pre-Hackathon May 12-14
 * mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Prehackathon_Prague
 * Seems to have some topics relevant to Discovery
 * Reminder: Daylight Saving Time (aka “summer time”) is in effect for 98% of the US, but not yet for Europe (March 26)...watch your calendar closely for shifting meetings
 * Should we invite Paul to these meetings? Yes. Done.
 * Updates on plans for maps/interactive team?
 * Longer-term plans are being handled as part of annual planning

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * SoS: Community Tech added a CirrusSearch "source" to Massviews https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159858
 * [Engineering] [Breaking Change] MediaWiki-Vagrant now defaults to Debian Jessie
 * Revert removal of SpecialSearchNogomatch and deprecate for removal properly - issues with core. Erik will take a look.
 * FYI: iOS team is rolling out a beta app that uses Apple’s maps, because using our map tiles would be difficult
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/Maps_service

= 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
 * Kartotherian (maps) and Node6: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150354

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 2017-02-21. 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
 * In progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154501
 * Release started March 13 (should be done on March 20 or 21)
 * Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
 * In progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154503
 * Expected to follow 1-2 weeks after ES 5 update
 * 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 underway https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158203
 * Deploy new analysers that are found to be an improvement
 * Deployment of Polish is expected after ES 5 release 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
 * Stabilize maps and graphs code base
 * Won’t necessarily end at the quarter boundary

= FYI =
 * Mar 16 Next All-Discovery retro
 * Mar 26: Europe Daylight Saving Time starts
 * 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 24-August 4: WMF staff encouraged to work remotely