Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-08-15

= Topics from the past =
 * (none)

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Add to the list of code repos we maintain, at the bottom of the Discovery page
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery#Code
 * Eng mgr hiring status: Initial phone screens to start soon; we have a stack of resumes
 * Recent/upcoming WMF blog posts related to Discovery work; have been well-received so far

= 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
 * “Should HTML formatting/DOM manip (presentation, responsiveness) be done in JS (frontend) or in PHP (backend)”
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136458
 * T139378 - implement nearby keyword search - working on this for the Reading Department
 * First iteration done and deployed (in our ‘done’ column)
 * Will wait for feedback and see if any more changes are required

Discovery News

 * See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) = (Status below last updated 2016-08-09. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

FY 2016-17 Q1 Key Results
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)
 * Evaluate and devise plan for using cross-project indices, which would allow users to search across all projects in any given language.
 * Update the search results page
 * Maps/Interactive
 * Make tag available for all wiki projects, and available everywhere except Wikipedia.
 * Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
 * Portal
 * Graduate latest successful test to production - lang by article count dropdown for the new page layout
 * Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
 * Continue to update article stats on a regular basis (last updated: Aug 4)

= FYI =
 * Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled September 7
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * Next All-Discovery retro TBD (mid-October)
 * Guillaume has referred someone for our Engineering manager opening.