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Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-11-17

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Topics from the past

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  • Quick hiring status/update
  • December deployment freeze for Language?
    • Dan/Erik will decide by next week
  • Tomasz will be publishing more details about upcoming Discovery work, especially as it relates to the “Knowledge Engine” concept
    • Has been started; early phases; plans to send out today
  • Reminder to use public mailing list (instead of private) whenever possible

Announcements, Information, Questions

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  • Portal
    • is now deployed from gerrit
    • event logging will be added very shortly (hopefully today)
  • Quick survey hopefully will be added to this week . Will appear on the article page, which the user clicked through to from search results, which they got to from either the portal search box, or the in-wiki search box
    • Moiz is leading
    • Target is Thursday Nov 19
    • Simple yes/no question about whether they found what they were looking for
  • Q3 goals
    • Current draft goals are old; will be rewritten
    • To propose something, go ahead and add it directly to the Q3 goals page
    • Plan is to have them “finalized” and up for review by early December

Scrum of Scrums

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Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?

Blocked

Blocking

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update

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  • Q2 goals intro/refresher
    • Languages
    • Portal
    • Analysis

(I didn't capture the discussion, but Dan will update the statuses on the goals page.)

FYI

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  • Holiday Nov 26-27 (Thurs/Fri)
  • Next Discovery retrospective: Nov 30
  • Next Showcase (Discovery+Reading): Not yet scheduled
  • Holiday Dec 25 (Friday)
  • Holiday Jan 1 (Friday)
  • Dev Summit Jan 4-6
  • All-hands Jan 7-8
  • Discovery Summit Jan 11-12