Topics from the past[edit]

Reading web
- is “Improving search exp in mobile web”
- is “Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis”
- Deb/Dan/Jan met w/Reading folks
- Agreed that search on mobile would be taken care of by Reading teams
- Nirzar/Olga agreed to follow-up if anything pertinent is happening
RelEng offsite Oct 17-21
- So no train deploys that week
- Kevin will be mostly unavailable
  - Guillaume will facilitate next week’s checkin
Gentle reminder to submit your proposals for Wikimedia Developer Summit. The deadline is 31 Oct for topic proposals.
Spark Project sharing deadline is Nov 1.

Announcements, Information, Questions[edit]

Anything the whole group should know from the ops offsite?
- Nothing specific. Good ops-y discussions.
Weird spike in our metrics graph, noticed by Mikhail
- Nothing newsworthy
WMF values conversations; everyone is encouraged (not required) to sign up
FYI: Yuri will be Discovery’s substitute rep for Scrum of Scrums this week (Oct 12)
Dan, Stas, and Chris attended Wikiconference North America 2016
- Lots of wikidata-related talks
- Talks about structured data on commons
- Knowledge Engine retrospective (apparently went well)
- Mxn gave a maps+wdqs talk; there were other maps-related talks
Guillaume will be presenting Elasticsearch to our Ops team this Friday.

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.)

(Status below last updated 2016-10-11. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.)

NOTE: Q2 goals will show up here next week

Search
- Make BM25 algorithm the default
  - (No increase in zero results rate or decrease in search user engagement rate)
  - We are close to deploying for some languages; other languages have issues with word breaks
Interactive: Maps/Graphs/...
- Offer community a way to migrate away from GeoHack
  - Was deployed shortly after quarter ended
Portal
- Graduate translations for sister wiki project descriptive text into production
  - Was pushed to production on Oct 11, 2016

Next All-Discovery retro October 13
Discovery Quarterly Review (presenting Q1 goal results) Monday, Oct 17
Monthly metrics Thursday October 27
Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled November 2
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT