Weekly update:

• Claudia incorporated the input from Pablo, Diego and Martin and worked on other pieces.
• The document is now ready for my review and I have started reviewing it.

Weekly update:

• Eli organized a coordination session between Michael, Eli and myself to has out the next steps.
• We have plans for the coming few weeks to accelerate work on this front and bring it to completion.
• We set an updated deadline of August 20th for finishing the paper.
• We will send the paper and our plan for dissemination to ArbCom on August 20th or slightly after that. The three of us will be available to meet with ArbCom in October (1st?).

Good point, Xiao (and something for us to consider commenting on in the final doc from the lens of this particular paper which is AI). The current open question about the min number of languages needed can help with us thinking about this topic more seriously. If min is very large vs relatively small, we may take different positions.

@Bethany thanks for gathering the responses, doing the first pass of analyses, and thinking through potential changes. Thank you for the conversation the other day as well.

@JWheeler-WMF np. thanks for expanding. A couple of comments and questions for you:

• We need a research scientist for this task. All our research scientists are substantially booked for Q1 for OKR work at the moment. We may be able to start the work in Q1, but we can't commit to deliver a recommendation and a POC.
• Would it be useful for you if we can pick this up in Q3? We do have a proposal by Martin Gerlach to build a taxonomy of templates and some of that work is needed for us to be able to do template recommendations. Due to other OKR priorities, we are delaying Martin's proposal to Q3. If you can wait until then, we can combine efforts and make the work stronger/better. (I understand the hypothesis language says Q1. I'm asking just in case you think you have flexibility.)

@JWheeler-WMF a gentle nudge on the above. If we don't hear from you in the coming week, we will move the task to Research-Freezer and we can revive it once you share more or when we come back to this topic area in the coming months/years.

@SonjaPerry I acknowledge that we have received your request. My understanding is that you and Miriam will connect in the coming week. She will ask some questions from you to help inform sizing and potential prioritization on our end.

@KinneretG I don't intend to do another pass based on our conversation above.

Thanks for your work and update, and happy to see that you're almost done. : )

• Chris and I met with part of the leadership team and gathered some of the information we needed from that group in order to be able to start working on the AI paper that will help define the organization's direction for AI work.
• We are going to work on a draft in the week of July 22nd with a goal of having something specific enough to be able to share for input from a few people.

Weekly update:

• no significant update on my part.
• Eli is back and we briefly discussed the state of the work left. We are meeting on Monday with Michael to plan the next steps to bring the work to the finish line.

weekly update:

• Met with Eli now that he's back and we finalized his quarterly goals.
• I have a few small conversations to wrap up with Mike however those we will hold on Monday and they're small.

Weekly update: no update on my end. Based on last conversation a couple of weeks ago with Kinneret, my understanding is that future updates in the coming month or so will come from her.

Weekly update:
no update on my end.

Chris and I have started working more intensively on this (as part of a larger effort to bring more clarity about what WMF Product and Technology Strategic Pillars mean in practice for specific facets, including AI). We expect our collaboration to continue in the coming month. We have a deadline of (currently) August 20th to deliver a document to the organization that will will communicate more clearly

@KinneretG I have another use-case for this. A researcher came by to my office hour today and communicated the need about knowing the grant-ID (which is a need for this task as well and I know you're working on). They need the grant-ID for submitting the research to some journals or publication venues. I referred them to this task and said you're working on it.

Eli and I discussed this task. Given his priorities for working on T355809 and T349415, it's unrealistic to expect time will be left for this task before October 2024. We will revisit then.

@diego should this task and T363718 be merged? if not, can you connect the latter in a logical way to this task?
(my context: I'm going through these tasks to help with some of the reporting I do and I don't understand how they're connected.)

Miriam and Gabriel developed a process that we used in the team for prioritizing Essential and partially OKR work for fiscal year 2024-2025. Next iteration of Improvements to the process are tracked at T352923. I'm going to resolve this task.

@Miriam thank you for all the work. You can resolve this task imo. see below for more.

We have some changes in plan for this task and some updates:

1. We agreed with Rita that the priority at this point is Topic/Module 3. Bethany prepared a draft learning module and presented it to the designers on June 25th. I created a subtask for that work which still has some follow-ups: T369243
2. We agreed with Rita to not prioritize work towards the rest of the modules immediately. Instead we will opportunistically use upcoming events (such as offsites, etc.) to cover other parts of this task. As we are not going to immediately work on the other parts, I'm going to move this task to research-freezer. We can bring it back once we are ready to prioritize it. (@RHo if not having another topic/module covered in July-September doesn't sound right to you, please let us know and we will bring back this task to the main Research board for prioritization.)

@Bethany I created this dedicated subtask for the portion of the training you have started working on. I updated the task description with some draft content on my end. Please help improve it.

(This parent task continues in July-September 2025 period as a priority for the Research team. Given that the completion of the task has dependency on the ML team, I cleared the dependency with @calbon today.)

(given that the parent task T357033 is now a priority for the July-September quarter, I'm going to move this task to the Staged lane. @MunizaA once you start working on it, please move it to the In progress lane. please note that the deadline for the parent task is now September 30, 2024 and the deadline for this task may need to be adjusted accordingly.)

@JWheeler-WMF we reviewed this request in our backlog refinement meeting. We are generally interested in the template recommendation problem. This is a canonical problem that if we help address can solve some of the long-standing requests (from organizers and otherwise). Our team has had this goal for many (6+ years). We simplified it originally to "section recommendation" with the hope of expanding it to template recommendation and we have done some early work in this space some years ago.

Thanks @YLiou_WMF. A note and a request:

• I moved this task to the Backlog lane given that the parent task is already a quarterly goal. The expectation would be that for the weekly updates Eli gives one update for all the activities under the parent task (and all of you contributing to it can amend his update as you see fit).
• Please make the task title and description more specific once you know more. (Even now if you know that the support needed is likely a particular kind of support, please improve the task title. I appreciate not all the information is there for you at this moment.:)

And thanks for your support of this work.

@KinneretG I'm going to set end of July as the time to wrap this task up. Here is my expectation of this task (and let me know if you see it differently):

My understanding from the conversations with @Bethany and @ATsay-WMF is that this work by design research is concluded. I'm going to resolve this task as a result. Please:

1. if there is remaining work, re-open, assign to the person who should work on it and update the comments so we know what's left.
2. if there is further documentation or wrap up remarks, feel free to share here.

(I'm moving this task to Staged as I'm not entirely sure if it's fully concluded. Once Eli is back in mid-July he can review and make the call on how to proceed.)

(This task is a carryover from April-June timeframe (Q4) to July-September (Q1). Mike expects the task to conclude in July. I set the deadline to the end of July. @MRaishWMF please close it once concluded. Thanks!)

@CMyrick-WMF I moved this task to the Support Needed lane as my read of it is that this is a request for help from KC. If this is not correct, please put the task in the In Progress lane and assign it to the person on your end who should work on it. : )

This work is now concluded and the hypothesis is posted. We will track the hypothesis work through T368791.

approved. thanks!

@Miriam great. thanks.
@XiaoXiao-WMF I moved the deadline to later in July to give @MGerlach sufficient time for giving feedback.

weekly update:

• I'm almost done with Q1 prioritization.
• some of Q2 prioritization is also concluded.
• I'm working on some open questions with regards to Q1-Q2 contributions, still talking with the teams that have requested support. I expect to wrap this work up by mid-July.

We are tracking all the work in T353718 now.

updates on this task:

• Claudia is coming back to it starting the coming week.
• She will prioritize sections that need work by Diego, Martin, and Pablo. (I'll give these folks a heads up now.)
• As sections are finalized, Claudia will ping me to review, give feedback as needed, and sign off on.