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Scrum of scrums/2020-12-02

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2020-12-02 edit

Callouts edit

Pinging Parsoid client teams (Editing, Language, Platform Infrastructure, Growth) onhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266143 again. Where necessary, this week, we will start submiting patches against your codebases. In that case, we would appreciate prompt reviews and followups as necessary.

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No updates: TechCom, Anti-Harassment Tools , Growth, Product Infrastructure, Language, OKAPI, Analytics, Machine Learning Platform, Research, Security, WMDE, Wikidata, German Technical Wish List


Product edit

Community Tech edit

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    • We are still reviewing wishlist proposals. We have until December 7th before the voting phase starts

Watchlist Expiry has been enabled in all production wikis since last night (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Watchlist_Expiry)

Editing edit

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    • [ reply ] link deployed by default to three wikis (cs, ar, hu) and beta feature on ~250 other Wikipedias. Received support on en.wiki during an RfC; next step is an A/B test on ~30 medium-larges wikis. Can also be enabled globally via user script (ask us how if interested).

iOS native app edit

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    • Released 6.7.3 into the App Store last week. Turning on Article as a Living Document experiment (in 6.7.3) today.
    • In exploratory stage for 6.8 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4862/
      • Chinese variant fixes
      • Initial push notifications
      • Article inspection mode experiment

Android native app edit

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    • Latest release rolled out to public 2 days ago.
    • Working on designs for bringing watchlist into the app.

Web edit

Structured Data edit

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    • Team offsite this week

Abstract Wikipedia edit

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    • Continuing work on using ZType data to enforce structure when editing ZObjects.
    • Excited to welcome Genoveva (Geno) Galarza Heredero, our new software engineer, to the team.

Parsing edit

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    • Pinging Parsoid client teams (Editing, Language, Platform Infrastructure, Growth) on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266143 again. Where necessary, this week, we will start submiting patches against your codebases. In that case, we would appreciate prompt reviews and followups as necessary.
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Inuka edit

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    • More bug fixes and UX improvements to the KaiOS app


Library edit

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    • A bug that denied eligible users access to the Wikipedia Library Card Bundle is now fixed
    • Working on making Wikilinks more stable is still in progress

Technology edit

Cloud Services edit

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    • releng train-dev blocked waiting for nested VM support (phab:T267433)
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Fundraising Tech edit

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    • The deluge of donations is here! Yesterday was our second-best day ever, and that was without sending any emails out (just banners).
    • Lots of discussion on best way forward for dockerized dev environment - discussion of multipurpose image vs app-specific images ongoing at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268685 . Advice welcome from long-term docker users!
    • Fixing little bugs as they crop up in the logs
    • Updating text for different specialized thank you emails
    • Tweaking timing of CiviCRM queue consumers so we can keep up with the generosity of our donors and send them timely acknowledgement.
    • Trying to reduce log spam on main CRM box

Platform edit

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    • Bug fixes for the API portal
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    • Sockpuppet API productionising
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Engineering Productivity edit

Performance edit

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    • For 1000+ websites Microsoft now redirects IE users to Edge automatically when they have Edge installed: https://twitter.com/MonsieurPerf/status/1333740793253793796 Currently trying to get in touch with Microsoft to find out if getting Wikimedia sites added to the list would be a possibility. If they confirm that it can be done, we can decide whether we want to be on the list or not.

Quality and Test Engineering edit

Release Engineering edit


Search Platform edit


Site Reliability Engineering edit

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releng: deploy scap 3.16.0-1 phab:T268634

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