Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-01-17

Topics from the past

• (There was no checkin last week)
• Discovery Quarterly Review presentation Jan 23 (slides are due earlier...Jan 16)
  • Dan and Deb believe they have what they need to finalize the decks over the next day or two

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Very brief discussion about the future of the interactive team

Scrum of Scrums

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

• See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed)

Past (Q2 Oct-Dec) 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 2016-12-15. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.

FY 2016-17 Q3 (Jan-Mar) Key Results

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q3_Goals#Discovery

• upgrading to Elasticsearch 5
  • Upgrade search cluster to Elasticsearch 5
  • Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
• deploying new language analysers
  • Perform research spikes to find new analysers for different languages
  • Test new analysers to see if they are improvements
  • Deploy new analysers that are found to be an improvement
• cross-wiki searching
  • Have a working prototype in Labs
  • Run at least 2 A/B tests on Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias

FYI

• Feb 1: CREDIT showcase
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
• May Discovery offsite (planning has begun)
• TBD: Next All-Discovery retro (target late Feb)