Multimedia/Standup notes/2018/February

2018-02-01

Matthias

• I don't have much today - where did my time go? :o
• Dockerizing things
• Administration, expense reports, ...
• Pam: there is no geocoding (address -> coord) support

Mark

• Meetings yesterday, no progress
• Today: Wow, no meetings. Maybe some more worldview-adjusting and code explorations.

Cormac

• Got cirrus search extension working locally with help from David Causse
• Now and for the next few days will be poking around with wikibase and elastic search

Ramsey

• Documentation for discussing future of commons
• Discuss filename discussion with Amanda
• Impromptu meetings

Pam

• Working on File page, research & sketching some ideas

Keegan

• Document liaison communication strategy for SDoC

Amanda

• Annual planning - transfigure roadmap into the plan, look into budgets

Max

• No MM updates

2018-02-03

Matthias

• Checking out WikibaseLexeme
• Need 1 more 3d review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/405050/ - Mark: can you +2?

Mark

• Filename obviation: Gilles is unsure about our use-cases. Meeting with Pam and Ramsey likely.
• Code: Not much progress due to last-minute day off on Friday; stepping back in to play with pulling the WB editing interface onto file pages
• Anything for SoS?

Pam

• Still on file page work - sketches by end of today

Keegan

• Setting us up an Extension:Newsletter copy
• IRC office hours coming up

Ramsey

• Documentation about team processes, ...
• Annual planning stuff
• Go over 3D, hopefully we can launch this week
• Updating docs for search user story

Cormac

• Fiddling with Wikibase
• CR

2018-02-06

Mark

• Worked a little bit on fixing the MediaInfo patch for filename lookups, seems to be some middleman stuff I'm not getting
• Today, continuing there, then on to file page edit interface stuff if it all goes well
• Tomorrow: Meeting frenzy

Pam

• Still working on Filepage (display)

Ramsey

• Yesterday, wrote and participated in a number of email threads about future work
• Today, striving to flesh out more Search user stories

2018-02-07

Mark

• Yesterday made limited progress on getting information about MediaInfo patch
• Last night: Caucus night in Minnesota, stressful and tiring but ultimately a fun experience
• Today: meetings meetings meetings meetings (maybe a nap)

Ramsey

• Yesterday: Worked on search, user stories
• Researching past RfCs and other requests about search improvements
• Meeting: Advanced search
• Email thread...(Mark to respond)
• Future of Commons (in progress)

Cormac

• Wikibase/MediaInfo all set up
• Talking with Search people re: how to move forward

Pam

• Meeeeeeetings
• File Page layout progress

Keegan

• Closing discussion on Commons
• Meetings!
• Sending notice about SD office hour
• Management course

Matthias

• 3d2png didn't get deployed yesterday, trying again tonight
• Asked Greg for deployment window for the rest of 3D work
• Figuring out why scap-deploy didn't work
• page_props patch - timing issue

2018-02-08

Matthias

• 3d2png deployed
• Ext:3D not yet deployed (waiting for deploy window)
• Fixed page_props
• Did some minor preparation for UW changes

Mark

• Yesterday: Only meetings
• Today: Making another push on the MediaInfo patch
• Tomorrow: Back to 10% time project

Ramsey

• Lots of meetings
• Fleshing out search userstories/wireframing
• Ontology discussion

Cormac

• Poking around Wikibase

Pam

• Working on File page & showing progress in next meeting

Max

• Fixing Phlogiston

Keegan

• Going through Phab tasks
• Unavailable tomorrow

2018-02-12

Mark

• Today: Got a concession out of WMDE, can move forward with some MediaInfo work, hopefully major progress today
• Also, hopefully moving forward with other MediaInfo work on pulling editing interface into File Page
• Maybe: Starting to think about how we mess up the Wikibase UX to make it better for our users

Matthias

• UW multilingual captions
• Fixed badge/placeholder overlay
• 3D deploy tomorrow

Amanda

• Bother Ramsey about allocations for next year
• Putting together annual planning program template narrative

Cormac

• Getting to know search

Keegan

• Looking over ontology draft
• Read email from Lydia

Max

• Not feeling well
• Came to unblock 3D but it's already g2g
• Going to work with Data Analysts, so less with MM starting March 1

Pam

• Need feedback on new File page designs

Ramsey

• Going over new File page designs
• Prepare for 3D deploy (blog post etc.)

2018-02-13

Matthias

• 3D deployed on Commons
  • Hold off announcements for a day - bug in Safari

Mark

• MediaInfo change hit a snag, trying to sort it out
• Interrupts today (appointment, a meeting or two)

Ramsey

• Working on blog post & announcement for 3D
• IRC office hours
• Meeting with Sandra about list of Pain for GLAM using commons
• 1on1 with Pam - talking about search features, depicts etc.
• Talking about George Oates partnership

Cormac

• Wikibase & search - figuring out how it all works
• 3D CR

Pam

• Revising wireframes - waiting for input
• Looking into search requirements (autocomplete, autosuggest, ...)
• <missed this - lost connection>

2018-02-14

Mark

• Meeeeeeeeeetings
• Won't be much progress due to ^
• Hopefully can work out some MediaInfo stuff later in the day
• PL: Got a bunch of random unrelated hobby-work piled onto me yesterday night, maybe.

Cormac

• Working through search for multilingual captions - reading a lot of code, talking to the search team

Keegan

• Reviewing office hours logs
• Meetings

Pam

• Finalize UploadWizard designs

Ramsey

• Review 3D (announcement not until Monday)
• Chat with Pam about design stuff
• Continue working on product requirements for various things (search, file page)
• Collecting feedback & comments for ^

Matthias

• 3D thingies
  • Prep for deploying 3D (for viewing) to all wikis
  • FOUC
  • Fix badge in MMV

2018-02-15

Matthias

• Going back & forth over FOUC with Ed (merged)
• Testing 3D in different wiki configurations (for deployment on all wikis, viewing only)
• Need to update mw.org Extension:3D page, hopelessly outdated

Mark

• Yesterday: Meetings as expected
• Back to work today on MediaInfo stuff, hoping to make progress
• Long night (real life interrupts)

Cormac

• Search for multilingual captions still, specifically investigating adding MediaInfo data to the search index for the File page, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187441

Ramsey

• Lot of open space for impromptu conversations today
• Retro
• Lots of emails to send and read
• Curating phab tickets on SDC and MM boards

Pam

• Still getting internal feedback on File Page wireframes, and I am working on a revised set in the meantime.

Amanda

• Finishing budgetting things
• Working on annual planning narrative template

Max

• No MM update

2018-02-20

Matthias

• Checked out Pam designs
• Bunch of small 3d thingies
• Will work on UploadWizard SDoC changes tomorrow

Pam

• working on multilingual captions: file page (iterative change) and upload wizard

Mark

• Progress on MediaInfo! Finally found time to delve in and start testing things. Patch going up soon.
• Next: File page editing interface stuff
• PL/social/chatter: Minnesota enters the next stage of a constitutional crisis at noon

Ramsey

• Meetings
• Keeping an eye on 3D announcement (today!)
• Surprise meetings

Amanda

• We have a SDC FY18-19 budget
• Today: SDC FY18-19 budget reconciliation
• Gonna email y'all about Annual Plan Program Narrative measures
• So many meetings

2018-02-21

Matthias

• Working on UploadWizard multilingual captions
• (if all goed well later today) 3D on all wikis tomorrow

Amanda

• MM budget looks good!
• Today: Still gonna email y'all about measures
• Gonna ask Ramsey to fill out outputs for MM in AP narrative
• Wrapping up List of Pain Outreach/Product division of responsibility

Mark

• Testing MediaInfo patch - not working quite yet, some changes to be made (I think to tests, not code)
• meetingpocalypse

Ramsey

• meetings
• emails about various things including MPEG-2, 3D uploads from myminifactory, etc.
• getting more detials about who our data analyst will be (and assigning them at least 1 task)
• whatever else people surprise me with :)

Pam

• Finished a first pass of MLC on File Page (interaction flow - two of 'em) & sent to Ramsey
• Sooooo many meetings today!
• Been reading up on Search stories/epics/sagas and all other search-related stuff to prep for a Search meeting

Cormac

• First ticket in searching for multi-lingual captions kinda working (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187570), should have a first draft patch for comments tomorrow

Keegan

• meetings first half of the day
• watching the ontology conversation
• starting prep for the structured licenses talk - looking through the presentations, docs, and other resources from legal from 2014
  • I'll be talking with some of you in more detail later this week/next week about this

2018-02-22

Matthias

Video call might not work - on reduced bandwith

• 3D on all wikis
  • Some small 3D fixed (FOUC etc.) that were supposed to be deployed yesterday didn't happen - deployment train rolled back
• Working on UploadWizard multilingual captions
• CR Brion's 3d2png testing patches tomorrow

Max

• Nothing special from me today :)

Keegan

• Posting one-week reminders about ontology
• Going over the stuff Stephen sent me from Legal about licensing

Pam

• Wireframing File Page MLC captions

Mark

• Brute-forcing through the MediaInfo test failure that remains...
• Matthias: Refactor 3d code paths?
• Heads-up: We may be in for a political storm about properties (maybe already mentioned recently?)
• Sent email about being away on Monday, should be back on Tuesday

Cormac

• stuck on a unit test for the MediaInfo searching patch ... think it might be untestable, but wanna be sure before I move on
• next - deploy MediaInfo to labs

Ramsey

• Meetings
• talking to potential partners for 3D files and tech platforms
• more spec and requirement stuff for various features
• still looking into the Wikibase federation thing

Amanda

• Thanks to those who commented on measurements! I will bother you more
• Compiling/reviewing outputs for AP Narrative. Mark and Ramsey will need to review

2018-02-26

Matthias

• Merged Brion's 3d2png testing patches
• Looking into T185783 (some thumbs don't match source image) - more tomorrow
• Back to UW multilingual captions tomorrow
• Any SoS updates?

Pam

• Putting finishing touches on the "adding multilingual captions to file page" wireframe clickable prototype
• Returning to the "forward-thinking filepage" wireframes
• Forgot: have a meeting with Ramsey & Nirzar about designing advanced search

Ramsey

• Meetings
• Talking to various entities/people about 3D content partnerships
• Reading/posting on community consultations

Cormac

• Got comments on my MediaInfo patch
• Erik suggests I talk to the WMDE folks to ask them about MCR and wikidata infobox templates

Keegan

• Checking up on Ontology conversation
• That's it for MM for the day I believe

2018-02-27

Pam

• Working on revising the "forward-thinking filepage" wireframes

Cormac

• working on comments from MediaInfo search patch
• me and Matthias did some work on MediaInfo on federated commons on labs
• should have updated patch tomorrow

Matthias

• Updated MediaInfo on labs instance with Cormac
• Working on UW multilingual captions

Amanda

• Review Pam's FPFC designs
  • FPFC is the sound an arrow makes when it misses you and hits the wall behind
• Check in with JMo about Commonst curator research
• Final budget reconciliation for AP SDC
• Work with GLAM team to define prelim GLAM conference program
• Work with GLAM team to reach out to affiliates for WMCon session planning
• Cormac and Ramsey there are some juicy questions for you on the tech rec talk page

Mark

• I am alive! (Yay!!)
• Today: Some recovery, trying to get back on track, hopefully can push the next version of the MI patch so someone at WMDE can take a look

Ramsey

• Discussions with potential partners for 3D content (and maybe tech)
• Speccing out high-level search requirements a bit more for Nirzar and Pam
• Hoping to get more user stories into the doc

2018-02-28

Pam

• A meetingful day
• Working mostly on Search today
• Hoping to fit some forward-thinking filepage work

Matthias

• Working on UW multilingual captions

Mark

• Gone meetin' most of the day
• Got a final(?) patch version up for the MediaInfo API - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/391052 - Cormac/Matthias plz to reviewing
• Next: Finally, pull Wikibase editing interface into file page (I've only been talking about it for like three weeks)

Ramsey

• A few meetings today, not as bad as usual
• Lot of reading to do (catch up on ontology discussion, wireframe comments, Tech Req responses, and more!)
• Sending out internal email to other product owners about potential impact of moving away from Filename usage on Commons

Keegan

• Meeting with Amanda today to discuss
  • File titles, and potentially removing them
  • Structured licensing
• Looking at wrapping up the Ontology conversation tomorrow. Will need a summary of findings to post with it.

Amanda

• Final budget reconciliation for AP SDC
• Reach out to affiliates about WMCon program planning sesh
• Formalize code reviewer group for MCR
  • Add Cormac to MCR reviewer group
• SDC microcontributions on mobile
  • Send Dmitry-Mark intro email
    • Mark notes: Red flag "translation" workflow; potentially steer off Wikipedia entry point, sort out what the plan is
• Respond to file caption name thread (Sorry Keegan and Ramsey)

Cormac

• Working on ML captions search patch (another version ready for review)
• Gonna look at Mark's patch next
• Also gotta look at/comment on stuff from Ramsey and Pam
• DIgging into MCR and asking loads of questions of various people