Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-10-18

= Topics from the past =
 * WMF values conversations; everyone is encouraged (not required) to sign up
 * Katie: very good experience! Join the conversation if you can!
 * Deb: Very interesting as well. Aligning our understanding make sense.
 * Guillaume gave Elasticsearch presentation to our Ops team last Friday
 * Presentation was well received, interesting questions, lots of clarification.
 * Discovery might want to do something similar.
 * Some overlap with CREDIT
 * However, CREDIT limits presenters to 5 minutes, and there is no shared context

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Anything we should know about from the Quarterly Review?
 * everything is good, generally
 * Email sent to discovery-private containing some feedback
 * From SoS: “Winter is coming... Annual reminder to please postpone risky rollouts till after December's fundraising campaign”
 * Cross-wiki search backend is getting less risky due to not merging the indices together in Q2
 * Frontend is a bit more risky, but only prototyping is planned
 * Interactive is risky
 * Map frame: we are confident
 * Tabular data space: we have the technology, but the steps to get there are not yet completely clear yet.
 * Portal: not risky at all (just maintenance for the most part)
 * Katie still need to talk to Greg to see what constraints we have
 * Erika started this week!
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= Scrum of Scrums =
 * Are we blocked?
 * None
 * Are we blocking? (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/)
 * None

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

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update = (Status below last updated 2016-10-18. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

FY 2016-17 Q2 Key Results
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals#Discovery
 * Search
 * Enable the backend for cross-project indices on all Wikimedia projects
 * Enrich the data stored in ElasticSearch to allow targeted improvements to result relevance (Migrate away from "all" field in Elasticsearch)
 * We are early in the quarter, so far so good
 * Quarterly Review: ** https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uem20E4P_e94yTfWpX8wQkbV8cDuNkja913TDonYATs/edit
 * Discovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ
 * Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
 * Increase maps and graphs usage on Wikipedia
 * Once map frame is launched, we expect KPI to increase fast
 * Enable shareable Geoshapes and Tabular data storage on Commons

= FYI =
 * Oct 27: Monthly metrics (Thursday)
 * Oct 31: Gentle reminder to submit your proposals for Wikimedia Developer Summit. The deadline is 31 Oct for topic proposals.
 * Interactive needs to decide what specific areas to discuss with the community. Long term ideas: external data consumption. Short term goals: on-wiki data storage, integrating graphs/Polestar/...
 * Nov 1: Spark Project sharing deadline
 * Nov 2: Next Showcase (“CREDIT”)
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * TBD: Next All-Discovery retro