Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-11-29

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Topics from the past[edit]

Announcements, Information, Questions[edit]

  • [engineering] mw1017 and mw1099 test appservers have been decommissioned
  • SoS: FR reminder of “stuff that could impact the fundraiser: GeoIP, ResourceLoader, MessageCache, EventLogging, Hive webrequest tables”
  • SoS: Analytics gave us a nice mention: “Thanking discovery for contributing to our metric reporting tools”
  • Do we need to do anything about the Vienna Hackathon email, or in general for the Vienna Hackathon?
    • Katie will follow up
    • No action required from others at this time
  • FYI: Extension:PageImages is getting an update to return non-free images.
  • If you have a moment today, please check the submitted proposals for the Dev Summit and provide input with comments, tokens, etc. (more info).
  • Weekly status updates return to normal this week. Please share what you’re working on!
  • [wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2016 just started: “Expect many questions on IRC and mailing lists by onboarding newcomers”

Scrum of Scrums[edit]

Are we blocked?

  • None

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

  • None

Other dependencies (in either direction) which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are progressing smoothly, have no urgency, etc.)

  • None

Discovery News[edit]

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)[edit]

Quarterly Review: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uem20E4P_e94yTfWpX8wQkbV8cDuNkja913TDonYATs/edit

Discovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ

This status was last updated 2016-11-29. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.

FY 2016-17 Q2 Key Results[edit]

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals#Discovery

  • Search
    • Enable the backend for cross-project searches on all Wikimedia projects
      • Back end: Load test looking good; likely to turn it on
      • Front end: Reached out to communities for A/B tests; announcement of testing is out for translation.
        • Will probably deploy A/B tests on Persian, Polish, Italian and Catalan wikipedias
        • Will set-up labs instance for English wikipedia and projects
    • Enrich the data stored in ElasticSearch to allow targeted improvements to result relevance (Migrate away from "all" field in Elasticsearch)
      • Done for top 10 projects. Should be done for all but 18 soon (out of 280+). Not sure of the status of those 18 at this moment.
  • Interactive: Maps/Graphs...
    • Increase maps and graphs usage on Wikipedia
      • Working on collecting metrics to demonstrate the effects
      • Updating commons template increased usage a lot (from thousands to millions)
      • Slow uptake on ruwiki (fewer articles than hoped) seems to be because they are just busy
    • Enable shareable Geoshapes and Tabular data storage on Commons
      • Now enabled on beta labs (commons and other wikis)
      • On hold pending deployment checklist
      • Some progress on geojson; need to add support for maps and graphs

FYI[edit]

  • Dec 7: Next Showcase (“CREDIT”)
    • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
  • Dec 26-30: Holiday
  • Jan 5: Next All-Discovery retro
  • Jan 9-11: Dev Summit (SF)
  • Jan 12-13: All-hands (SF)
    • Some of us not going to the Dev Summit will be coming in a day early
    • Discovery dinner? :) +1+1 +1000
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