Right now I'm brainstorming as I chat with various people and documenting and discussing ideas here. My next zero-results goal is to get a hold of actual data, histogram it, and see which approach seems most promising based on how the data looks. I'm tying up loose ends on some WDQS tasks first, then, assuming my SSH access works as advertised, this will be my primary task.

Trey Jones

Software Engineer, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc@wikimedia.org> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Trey Jones <tjones@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Desirable is a philosophical question, but it seems reasonable to me.
> Possible certainly seems possible, if it helps. Once again, what we really
> need to do is look through the data and see how often something that looks
> like this comes up.

So at this point we need to pick 1 or 2 ideas that we think have the
highest chance of meeting our zero results goal and run experiments. I
don't anticipate hitting the goal with our first efforts but I also
don't want us to get stuck on finding the perfect solution. Half of
being able to hit this goal is to identify changes, test them, and
quickly iterate within the quarter.

What have we narrowed down to and what are their relative impact?

--tomasz

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