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

• By Security: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129426 (json-schema, needed for maps) - done

Dependences which don’t need to be called out as “blocked”

No longer a blocker

• 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

Blocking

• Are we blocking?  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

Discovery News

• 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