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
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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
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- 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
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- 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
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Native apps on Wikivoyage
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- 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
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Objective: Understand Wikipedia map needs
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Dan: Wikipedia is more complicated
wikipedia.org
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- 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
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Dan: hiring and staffing. Katie took over as Head of Discovery. Data Analyst accepted
Appendix
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May: new footer with descriptive text for sister wiki projects
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The effect
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Browser language detection (June 2)
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- 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
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Multilingual results
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- 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