Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-08-09

= Topics from the past =
 * Reminder: Do expense reports promptly! (always)

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * CREDIT: Stas was the only presenter this month
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOj6nDbdPMA
 * Upcoming minor team shift (we will start to work on search results front end, within a couple weeks; public announcement will come soon)
 * Ops offsite September 26-30 in Barcelona
 * Stas created a nice demo of integrating WDQS and the vega graph designer: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F4346786

= 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
 * Will wait for feedback and see if any more changes are required
 * Strong dependency on ops for map servers this quarter (Guillaume is coordinating)
 * Ops are OK with enabling Kartographer on small wikis

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)
 * ON TRACK
 * Evaluate and devise plan for using cross-project indices, which would allow users to search across all projects in any given language.
 * BEING DISCUSSED (check with Erik when he gets back)
 * Release TextCat to production
 * Release the question mark handling
 * Update the search results page
 * ON TRACK Should start within a couple weeks
 * Maps/Interactive
 * Make tag available for all wiki projects, and available everywhere except Wikipedia.
 * ON TRACK
 * Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
 * ON TRACK
 * Portal
 * Graduate latest successful test to production - lang by article count dropdown for the new page layout
 * ON TRACK (should go live very soon)
 * Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
 * ON TRACK
 * Continue to update article stats on a regular basis (last updated: Aug 4)
 * ONGOING
 * Continue to update article stats on a regular basis (last updated: Aug 4)
 * ONGOING

= FYI =
 * Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled September 7
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * Next All-Discovery retro TBD (mid-October)