Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2016-02-09

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Topics from the past[edit]

  • Third week running wmf.10 due to issues deploying session handling changes. Code written in the last few weeks is likely still not deployed due to these issues.
    • Just an FYI reminder. They have a plan.

Announcements, Information, Questions[edit]

  • There was a request for lightning talks on any of the following topics:
    • Relevance of intra-wiki search
    • Models for user satisfaction with search
    • Wikipedia.or portal improvements
    • OSM tiling
    • WDQS
  • Monday Feb 15 is a holiday (let your manager and ADP know if you plan to work that day)
  • Annual planning: Next is deadline March 4. Get comments to Dan.
  • Thank you for getting expense reports in. Tomasz will start approving hackathon travel this week
  • We're having some interesting discussions with reading that may increase our search traffic
  • Erik and Tomasz will be at ElasticON next week
  • Ops is discussing maps hardware budgets
  • Discovery Retrospective(s)
    • Kevin posted a proposal to split it into smaller team-based retrospectives
    • Discussion is happening in email; thanks for input; please participate
  • Next showcase still being planned; might include Community Tech
  • Report from Gather meeting: Tentatively leaning toward making it private, but not final

Scrum of Scrums[edit]

  • Android: New beta coming soon, which includes A/B testing for CirrusSearch (T125393).

Blocked (NOTE: We accidentally skipped this section, so this information could be obsolete)

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FYI[edit]