Wikimedia monthly activities meetings/Quarterly reviews/Discovery, July 2016

Notes from the Quarterly Review meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation's Discovery team, July 11, 11:00 - 11:45 AM PT.

Please keep in mind that these minutes are mostly a rough paraphrase of what was said at the meeting, rather than a source of authoritative information. Consider referring to the presentation slides, blog posts, press releases and other official material Present (in the office): Katherine, Dan G., Heather, Joady, Toby, Robla; participating remotely: Maggie, Katie H, Trevor, Wes, Deb.

Objective: Improve inter-wiki integration

Dan: we were directing many people away from other languages to English due to presence of English search terms in other languages

Objective: Upgrade Elasticsearch

Dan: upgrade to ES2 was for a feature that was postponed to ES5
Katherine: is there a roadmap for ES5
Dan: I think Q2, not sure

Objective: Geospatial queries for WDQS

Dan: managed to add this near start of quarter.
Katherine: what's the relative sense of the metrics?
Dan: launched service in September.
Dan: iventaire uses WDQS (Magnus Manske)
Toby: WDQS has a lot of mindshare. concern is we have one person on this
Dan: integrated map service with results

Objective: Geospatial queries for WDQS

Native apps on Wikivoyage

Dan: maps are in production rather than Labs
Katherine: what's the adoption?
Dan: Currently on all Wikivoyages as default maps engine and smaller wikis. Replacing older geo coordinates pages.
Katherine: Interested in what the value is
Dan: Wikivoyage is very excited about this. Wikipedia doesn't have it yet
Toby: would like to collaborate for mobile
Dan: powers "nearby" on android and ios is looking at service as well

Native apps on Wikivoyage

Objective: Understand Wikipedia map needs

Dan: Wikipedia is more complicated

wikipedia.org

Deb: A/B tests (talking through slide)
Deb: 1 and 2 graduated, 3 consultation
Katherine: what languages are you're translating the conversation into?
Deb: Language detection; people couldn't find their language. Primary language in the top 10 slot no matter what
Katherine: will follow up offline

Core Workflows

Dan: hiring and staffing. Katie took over as Head of Discovery. Data Analyst accepted

Appendix

May: new footer with descriptive text for sister wiki projects

The effect

Browser language detection (June 2)

Deb: (describing image) Latvia chosen because the browser has Latvian as preferred language
Katherine: resorting for all locales? that's incredible? who gets dropped?
Deb: still have top wikis
Katherine: user satisfaction given Latvian has 88,000 articles?
Dan: they can always go back to hte portal to get back to English
Toby: classic quant analysis issue
Toby: we should sync with Reading and Editing about language selection
Toby: I'd love to see what you're doing for user satisfaction; e.g. Facebook's CSL
Dan: mainly tracking if click on link, stay for 10 seconds. Seems to be the industry standard, even though it has problems
Maggie: wonderful what you're doing here, and wonderful to see attention to sister projects

Effect - More likely paths

Multilingual results

Dan: discovery is about finding so much content we have on our sites, so people can find it
Katherine: really exciting. seems team is very much integration team as disocvery team
Deb: quite a few people have wikipedia.org as their homepage, wanted to find out why
Toby: Leila has interesting research for you