Topics from the past[edit]

Add to the list of code repos we maintain, at the bottom of the Discovery page
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery#Code
Reminder: Draft goals for Q2 were due on August 26 (last Friday)
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals#Discovery
Labor Day holiday Sept 5 (this coming Monday)
- (I notice a couple of you still have meetings scheduled that day!)
[Wikitech-l] Have you fixed all (some even possibly broken) links to git.wikimedia.org in your code yet?
- task T139089
Email thread: Change search planning meeting to include more people and be longer?
- We decided to experiment with making additional people optional
Chris drafted a section on our roles page for CL; Mikhail added a section for analysts
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Roles_and_responsibilities#Community_Liaison_.28.22Community_Engagement_for_Software_Deployment.22.29
Switching to youtube from google hangouts on air - just fyi and might need to check meeting invites, saved videos, etc

Announcements, Information, Questions[edit]

Brand workshop on Tuesday--should everyone attend?
- Use discretion; talk to your manager if unsure
Chris out next week (and the following Monday)
- Benoit is watching discussions in my absence

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.)

T139378 - implement nearby keyword search - working on this for the Reading Department
- First iteration done and deployed (in our ‘done’ column)
- Will wait for feedback and see if any more changes are required
Reading web is “Improving search exp in mobile web”
Reading web is “Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis”

(Status below last updated 2016-08-23. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

Search
- Make BM25 algorithm the default
  - (No increase in zero results rate or decrease in search user engagement rate)
- Evaluate and devise plan for using cross-project indices, which would allow users to search across all projects in any given language.
Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
- Make <maplink> tag available for all wiki projects, and <mapframe> available everywhere except Wikipedia.
- Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
Portal
- Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
- Continue to update article stats on a regular basis (last updated: Aug 4)

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