Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-07-13

Topics from last week (which might not need attention)

• (none)

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Quarterly Review slides
  • Wes presented them to the group. They were later published: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quarterly_Review_Q4_2014-15,_Discovery_Department.pdf
• Hypothesis summarisation is now done and published at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Measuring_User_Search_Satisfaction
• If you are on the hook to sign the employee handbook, please do so
• Planning is starting for the January all-hands. Ideas?
  • We will also do some team activities, but looking for ideas for the whole-org
• Dev summit is the week after the all-hands (we think)
• Monthly Discovery Retrospective 5 minutes after this meeting

Scrum of Scrums

• Are we blocked?
  • No
• Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
  • Possible Ops Q1 goal (might slip to Q2) of multi-datacenter, so they will do most of the work, but will ask for our help when needed.
  • Not really SoS blockers, but cases where Discovery members are needed by other projects:
    • Charts security issue (Yuri, following up on pre-reorg obligations)
    • Wikipedia zero (Yuri is still assigned there part-time)
    • Transparency report (Moiz, following up on pre-reorg obligations)
• Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?
  • Android: Using CirrusSearch "morelike:" for "Read more" suggestions (for 50% of users)
    • This was the patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/218983/
    • It’s an A/B test to see whether the new system generates more engagement than the old one
    • Dan will follow up with Android product mgmt
  • Collaboration: “Continuing work on search”
    • Flow is implementing search in comments; may want to use Cirrus cluster
    • Dan will follow up with Flow product mgmt

FYI

• Wikimania (July 15-19)