Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-06-07

= Topics from the past =
 * Dan on vacation from 2nd June until 21st June (inclusive)
 * Katie was in SF on Thursday and Friday, and met with team members
 * Submit any outstanding expense reports ASAP! (Fiscal year is ending)
 * For search offsite, send to Katie

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Adding a link to status updates in team infoboxes. Is this cool with everyone?
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Search
 * Answer: Yes. Cool.
 * Weekly code review hours https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E205
 * Opportunity to get code reviewed, or to help review code
 * Ops starting to think about an offsite--maybe October. Guillaume would attend.

= Scrum of Scrums = Blocked Dependencies which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are not longer a blocker) Are we blocking? Discovery News
 * Portal update script blocked on ops https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135029
 * Guillaume will check to see if we can help move it along
 * (none)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
 * See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) = (Status below last updated 2016-06-07)

Q4 Key Results

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discovery
 * Search
 * Run TextCat A/B test
 * English test is running now; others to follow
 * (Maybe push TextCat to production)
 * Update Elasticsearch
 * DONE!
 * Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
 * Won’t happen--elasticsearch removed that feature
 * WDQS
 * Add geocoordinate functionality
 * DONE!
 * Maps/Interactive
 * Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
 * (Still) Hope to start switching templates within a week
 * Create use case page for maps
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Conversation_about_interactive_map_use
 * (That page could use additional work)
 * Writing up a “lessons learned” from this conversation
 * Portal
 * Run at least 3 A/B tests
 * Two have been run so far; another one has started this week
 * 2 more scheduled
 * Qualtrics survey will be restarted to get more respondents (how did visitor get to portal)
 * Graduated 2 successful A/B tests
 * Pushed descriptive text for sister projects
 * Pushed language detection and re-sorting primary links

= FYI =
 * Next Discovery retrospectives: In progress last week and this week
 * Wikimania June 21-28
 * Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled July 7
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * All-Discovery retro maybe mid-to-late-July?