Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-05-03

= Topics from the past =
 * Anything to discuss for Moiz transition?
 * User Experience Engineers are feeling well supported
 * Discussions with Abbey about Maps research
 * Reminder: Annual reviews!
 * Req holding international contractors will follow the regular reviews process minus the review packet needing to be approved by SafeGuard

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Conversation on interactive maps on Wikipedia has started! Good community response already. OSM volunteers even put together a preliminary “Welcome to Wikipedia users” on their wiki.
 * Chris has been doing a great job supporting community broadcast and discussion. No need to increase resourcing
 * New footer A/B test on wikipedia.org has been deployed (May 3): https://www.wikipedia.org/#descriptive-text-b
 * Portal team updated the stats for the wiktionary.org portal site (May 3)
 * FYI: no other portal stats needed updating at this time
 * Tabular data is in active discussion
 * Commons:Village pump: Tabular data storage for Commons?

= Scrum of Scrums = Blocked Dependences which don’t need to be called out as “blocked”
 * By Security: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129426 (json-schema, needed for maps) - done

No longer a blocker Blocking Discovery News
 * Issue while installing new elasticsearch servers (Chris has about 60 servers arriving, it will take some time) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133772
 * Wrong SSD in wdqs100[12]: same, bandwidth of Chris is limited - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120712
 * Are we blocking?   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
 * See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) =

Q4 Key Results

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discovery
 * Search
 * Run TextCat A/B test
 * (Maybe push TextCat to production)
 * Update Elasticsearch
 * Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
 * WDQS
 * Add geocoordinate functionality
 * Maps/Interactive
 * Wikivoyage sites switch to Kartographer
 * Create use case page for maps
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Conversation_about_interactive_map_use
 * Portal
 * Run at least 3 A/B tests
 * Graduate at least 1 successful A/B test

= FYI =
 * Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled May 12 (Thursday)
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * Next Discovery retrospectives: TBD late May