Topics from the past[edit]

Annual planning (submitted to finance on Friday Mar 4)
- We will get feedback this week
- Early feedback about the numbers is positive;
- Work on narrative this Wed/Thurs
- Final deadline is March 31
Q4 goals (draft was due on Friday Mar 4)
- Nothing has changed. We still have 7 goals, but need to cut down search goals.
- Dan will work w/Erik and then others as needed
Worth spending more effort on documentation (e.g. TextCat)?
- Should we have a semi-formal policy about the importance of documentation?
- Concerns about over-documenting (e.g. not agile)
- Move the conversation to email
- Dan is willing to prioritize phab tasks to write docs on specific topics
- Chris can alert if we are answering the same question multiple times (feature-level)
- Multiple audiences (onboarding new staff, end-users on Wikimedia sites, end users on third party sites, other devs)
QuickSurvey:
- Some remaining questions regarding privacy policy (Dan will check w/Leila)
- Then we can submit a patch to get reviewed and deployed
- Need to create messages in the mw namespace, so might need to limit one one (or few) wiki.
- This is lower priority than some other work right now

Announcements, Information, Questions[edit]

Team retrospectives have been scheduled (this week and next)
Julien will be working with the Maps team through the end of this quarter
Reminder: Submit items for the Discovery status updates
Portal dashboard has not yet shown increase in searching which we were expecting; too early to tell

NOTE: Stas and Yuri were missing for this part, so some might be out of date

Blocked

Stas and Yuri will talk to ops about SPARQL query caching (?)
- Discussed; found bug which ops will fix
- Open question about how long cache should live
SVG sanitizer security review (graphs) (?)
Maps hardware
- We think this may have to wait until after elastic hardware
- Tomasz will follow up with Mark
Elastic hardware
- Awaiting ops (Mark’s) approval

Blocking

Completion suggester: Roll out to full production: Plans being worked out
Review ES configuration: In progress
- “Done enough” but will keep doing
Quick survey for search results: At risk
Portal: Run 3 A/B tests: At risk (we ran an a/b/c test and expect to run one more)
Maps: Wikivoyage in all languages: Deployed but adoption of German and Dutch is blocked on community

draft is up: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discovery

Next Discovery retrospective: Team retrospectives spread over the next couple weeks
Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): April 6
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT