Multimedia/Standup notes/2018/September

2018-09-27

PL: what's going on with translatewiki???

Matthias

Not around - midwife info session

• Working on search prototype feedback

Keegan

• Meetings!
• Posting the old revision thingy
• Checking in on talk page posts

Mark

• Meeting day was Meeting Day, shocking I know
• Today: Hiring stuff (almost done with resumés!)

Pam

• Finishing up the big Depicts clickable prototype

Ramsey

• Meetings. 8 scheduled, perhaps 7-9 actually attended? We'll see!

Cormac

• Still going on MCR ... there's something up with search, so digging into that

James

• Helping out with more MW core stuff.
• [PL] Thoughts about an SDC Engineering board (like the SDC design/docs one), to make things easier to find?

Amanda

• Writing/reviewing grant report draft
• Out tomorrow and Monday for moving! Still doing Q2 goal meeting, and y'all can still ping me

2018-09-26

Cormac

• BAD NEWS: we're not going to be able launch next week
  • Wikibase patch is proving problematic - quoting Daniel "we had to go back to the drawing board today" - best case scenario is now end of next week
  • I still have maybe another day's work left on it anyway

Mark

• Meeting dayyyy
• If (big if) I have any time, it'll probably be spent rounding up the remaining resumés in the queue...pretty close to being done with first round of review on that

Matthias

• Worked on file page captions feedback
• Looking into CirrusSearch support for filtering on media type

Pam

• So many meetings
• Passed on some feedback to Matthias about File Captions on FP (Labs)
• Finished updating Depcits designs... now working on explanatory text for designs
• Made some connections with the Creative Commons folks (Dir of Product & Research and their Data Engineer) - could prove useful for the reuse scenario, as well as when SDC is done & we can be one of their collections
• WMDE question of standardization of interfaces -> parking lot update

Keegan

• Posting about old page revisions today
• Keeping an eye on the other things
• Emails
• Meetings
• Normal Wednesday

Ramsey

• yesterday: a number of interrupts to answer and ask questions but still got a decent amount of 3-5 year planning stuff done
• today: more writing, will certainly get to summarizing Miriam's machine learning stuff
• lots of meetings, but not as many as tomorrow!

James

• Yesterday: Review/backport/deploy of an unbreak-now UW patch from Matthias, some MCR-related core code review
• Today: More stuff, probably. Trying not to get in the way of the big beasts. :-)

2018-09-25

Mark

• Yesterday: Mostly just catch-up
• Today: Resumé review and more catch-up
• A few meetings
• PL: What news from the front?

Pam

• Almost finished updating designs for stakeholder review
• Next will be working on explanatory text for the designs as a guide
• Goal is to get a link out today to the GLAM team
• Writing up some stuff for Nirzar/Rita re: statement designs

Ramsey

• 3-5 year planning still
• Light meeting day, but will probably have a number of interrupts

Cormac

• still working on MCR, haven't heard from Adam since noon-ish ... 2 main things left seem to be
  • showing an empty MediaInfo slot on the File page so it can be edited
  • find a cleaner way of showing the 'structured data' header (currently a very ugly hack)

Matthias

• File page thing on labs
• Working on Pam's feedback on search proto
• Checking UploadWizard license thingy

2018-09-24

Matthias

• Did some work on Cormac's patch - ready to be merged, I think
• Fixed some UW license selection issues

Mark

• Almost out of the resumé firehose I think.
• More email catch-up today, hopefully not too much
• How do we look on our various bits of work pre-launch?

James

• A bit of code review on Cormac's patch. think it's ready to land (with a design follow-up question -> Pam)

Ramsey

• currently stuck in a WMDE meeting
• meeting day, part 1 this week
• more 3-5 year planning documentation
• will try to review community consultations updates when I get a chance
• will also try to summarize Mariam's feedback for machine-assisted depicts tagging

Pam

• also in a meeting running over time with WMDE
• been reviewing community consultations this morning
• got good feedback on languages + Wikidata editor, will be sharing out
• lots of meetings today

Keegan

• Check up on the wikis
• Start working on the old page revision communication plan

Cormac

• MCR ... more or less there now, I think, need a Wikibase patch from Adam to make it all work

Amanda

• Writing Wikibase NYC report back email
• Writing stakeholder review group follow up email
• Emailing re WMDE - WMF design chats

Mark PL

• Will statements (i.e. more than captions) be accessible via the API as of right now?
  • Do we want them to?
    • If yes, should we document it?
      • If no, are we really sure we want them to?
• What's blocking deployment still?
  • [MCR work]
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194729 got re-opened by Daniel, does that block us?

2018-09-20

Keegan

• Looking at the things we have up on the wikis: statements, SDC talk page, Wikidata discussions
• Working on the draft Ramsey provided me about good coverage search

James

• T198309 (Set testwiki MCR migration to write-both/read-new) getting deployed right now.
• Next is T198558 (Set testwiki MCR migration to new-only), dependent on testing.
• Wider MCR migration is scheduled for immediately after switch back to eqiad.

Pam

• Made adjustments to the depicts statements designs (clarifying when/how artwork shows referred q items)
• Will spend today updating designs based on our design:dev convo
• Need to catch up on discussions...
• Have a question about the OOUI-ification of file page

Matthias

• Updated labs (history now working)
• Working on search proto feedback

Mark

• Battling the inbox today
• More meetings
• Tomorrow: Probably more emails + resumé review

Ramsey

• meeting heavy day
• people asking me questions
• if I have spare time/energy it'll be spent on 3-5 year planning

Cormac

• patch for Mediainfo relevant to MCR ... but for some reason wikibase tests fail because of it, waiting to here back from WMDE
• working on review comments for File page

2018-09-19

Matthias

• CR Cormac's patch
• CR Daniel's patch

Keegan

• Posting on Commons about property creation
• Posting about search good coverage?
• Updating SDC portal for Amanda

Pam

• Sent out email yesterday re: modal design & functionality in advance of our design:dev chat tomorrow
• Refining the visual treatment of the referred artwork depicted items (to separate them from the M-item depicted items)
• Need to send out SDC update
• Afternoon doc appt, time is blocked off on calendar

Mark

• Got through a fair bit of resumé review, going to take a break from that...
• Meeting day as per usual
• Need to catch up on e-mail as well, so that's my in-between-meetings activity

Ramsey

• A few meetings
• Quick chat about Daniel's patch
• 3-5 year planning madness
• Following up on phab tickets

Cormac

• have gotten a good bit more feedback on the File page patch, will address it tomorrow
• progressing with MCR

James

• More reviewing of Cormac's patch.
• Trivial linting fiddles.
• Helping review some performance-related patches for 3D and [M]MV from Ed and Timo.

2018-09-18

Mark

• omgwtfbbq resumés
• Yesterday went not great - afternoon shot

Matthias

• MediaInfo history fixed
• Answered EventLogging
• CR Cormac's patch
• Following restore discussion

James

• Initial review of Cormac's patch for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202287 – it works!

Pam

• Extremely productive meeting with Ramsey yesterday, so making some edits to the modal and sending an email out to the team ahead of our design-dev chat
• Making some other edits to the artwork scenario bit for visual clarity

Ramsey

• light meeting day today
• 3-5 year planning document awesome special time

Cormac

• revised File page patch based on some comments
• still figuring my way around on MCR

2018-09-17

James

• Last MCR phase 2 patches going out tomorrow in the train (hopefully).
• Non-MCR DB refactor patches (Actor, Comment) both moving forward; should have no effect on SDC. ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/460916 )

Matthias

• Restore revisions
• CR Cormac's patch
• Follow up on MediaInfo history page patch
• Add isempty support in search proto

Pam

• Made heaps of progress on the entire Depicts-Artwork-Editing WD on Commons flow
• Looking forward to going over the flow with Ramsey in our 1:1
• Scattered meetings today

Mark

• Not feeling 100% today, will see how the afternoon looks
• Probably a lot of resumé review later today, I'm probably halfway through them at this point, but need to catch up

Keegan

• Planning out captions release comms
• Met with Sandra and Léa about property creation
• Statements consultation

Amanda

• SDC Weekly update update
• Asking about QCi format
• Getting ready for Wikibase NYC
• At conf tomorrow through Fri, ping me for anything urgent

Ramsey

• relatively few meetings today
• head-down on writing white papers for 3-5 year planning
• bugging people about talking to other people :)

Cormac

• File page patch in review (mostly minor comments so far)
• work on MCR has begun

2018-09-13

Cormac

• File page patch in review - had to add another patch for CI integration
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo/+/460025/
• Tomorrow - catching up with stuff I've been neglecting, possible MCR (but defo MCR on Mon)

Pam

• Missing stand-up due to conflicting meeting (see Cormac's email & my reply)
• Making revisions to the modal's first screen (the item preview) per Nirzar's request
• Thanks, Ramsey, for making this ticket (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204247), cannot wait to upload designs when I'm done
• Very meetingful day :/

Keegan

• Missing standup&retro, OoO for 1.5hrs, already had a couple meetings
• More meetings
• Statements consultation
• I need to start planning the Captions release

Mark

• Meeting day, round 2, fight!
• Will try to get round to other stuff if I can - probably swamped with manager-y stuff later in the day.

Matthias

• Fixed MediaInfo history action
• Working on restoring revisions
• CR Cormac's patch

Amanda

• Q2 goals
• Signing you up for a meeting with the Swedes NHB, Mr. Holmquist
• Emailing folks re weekly SDC update update

Ramsey

• so many meetings
• 3-5 year planning outline, again, for review part 2 tomorrow
• answering questions Miriam has about machine-aided depicts

w== 2018-09-12 ==

Cormac

• Consolidated the File page patches into 1, and now I'm making minor edits to get it past CI, then it's ready for review
• MCR tomorrow?!

Pam

• Finishing up prepping designs in InVision for design review (will be sharing link out when ready)
• Following the Structured License consultation discussion
• Yesterday, per the consultation, discussed with Ramsey linking certain qualifiers out to their respective WD pages
• Very meeting day today

Mark

• Yesterday: Loads of resumés reviewed, but many more to come...
• Today: Pretty much caught up on email, I think. Have some busywork to try to accomplish between meetings.
• Will be AFK late afternoon.

Ramsey

• Yesterday: Productive meeting with Smithsonian on 3D stuff. Talked mostly about metadata for their tools. Could be a vector for structured data or Wikibase
• Also yesterday: following up on community consultations about various things
• Also yesterday: syncing up with Mariam about machine learning stuff
• Today: Decent number of meetings
• 3-5 year planning stuff (this is gonna be a recurring theme for the next month)

Keegan

• Meetings
• Statements consultation
• Email

Matthias

• Restore revisions
• MediaInfo history broken? Will look into that

2018-09-11

James

• Shepherding some MCR patches over the line. We might (jinx!) have just landed phase 2 in master.

Cormac

• File page still going. Revised first patch is in review. To do on the javascript patch
  • warnings when someone is approaching the limit of text allowed
  • handle error from backend when deleting

... still hoping to get it finished today (crosses fingerz)

Pam

• Still revising/prepping the artwork/editing WD designs for review
• Spent time this morning updating attribution information on the design consultation files
• A bit of a meetingful day

Mark

• That was an extraordinarily long weekend, but we're back
• Resumés are pouring in, so...that's probably my day
• Once I dig myself out of that I'll try to deal with the rest of my email

Ramsey

• Still working on 3-5 year planning docs, this time absorbing feedback and also giving feedback to others
• Miriam added some comments on the machine learning doc. Will review those
• Thinking about follow-up to the current Structured License conversation
• Meeting with Smithsonian's digitization team about combining our plans for 3D file support

Amanda

• Review pre-plans to work with WMSE
• Review George's blog post and admin stuff
• Update gantt chart with refined subchunks
• Bothering Ramsey about Q2 goals

2018-09-10

Cormac

• not quite there yet on the File page :( Here's my to-do list
  • bug to do with deleting row for adding the caption in user's language if it doesn't exist
  • javascript warnings when text is too long (or almost too long)
  • refresh all languages on change language

Pam

• Revising the artwork scenario/editing WD on Commons designs for a final round of review this week
• Have my eye on the Statements consultation (lots of design comments...)

Ramsey

• A bit of work for 3-5 year planning today, including review of the outline with Toby and co.
• moving on to spec/requirements for remaining aspects of depicts
• design chats with Pam

James

• Planning to look at Cormac's WIP patch today.

Keegan

• Check up statements consultation, have a reply or two from Ramsey I need to pass along from Friday + whatever else is new
• Email
• Other work
• Submission for "Update: Structured Data on Commons" for Wikiconference NA was accepted

Matthias

• Restore revisions
• Vagrant issues

Amanda

• Going to Wikibase user workshop in NYC Sept 17–22
• Talking to GLAM folks about data round-tripping tools
• Following-up with Keegan re. portal
• Sending out the weekly update for SDC programme management

2018-09-06

James

• At the Core Platform/Audiences sync meeting, sorry.

Keegan

• Advertising/socializing the statements consultation

Matthias

• Working on revisions/restore

Pam

• Presented artwork scenario to design team yesterday, got good feedback & will be sharing at design:dev chat
• Uploaded structured licenses files to Commons
• Replied to Matthias about search prototype (for things to be changed when it’s worked on next)
• Now prepping for the design granularity meeting & updating the designs doc Amanda made
• Tomorrow: revising artwork scenario

Cormac

• File page work continuezzzzz ...

Mark

• A few meetings, then hopefully CR, then tomorrow we start the hiring process

Ramsey

• Thursday is always full of meetings for me
• Yesterday, completed first draft of my 3-5 year planning outline
• today: research on matching external concepts to Wikidata Q items, emails with other Product team members working on planning outlines
• also today: reviewing job posting stuff for the Engineer role

2018-09-05

Matthias

• Updated search proto on labs
• Start work on revisions/revert

Keegan

• Posting the copyright and licensing consultation

Ramsey

• Handful of meetings today
• Really digging into 3-5 year planning position papers

James

• I sketched out a top-level view of steps to deployment at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194750

Pam

• Will be presenting "editing WD on Commons/Artwork scenario" at design review today: https://wikimedia.invisionapp.com/share/AZNJR6RTQXR
• Search prototype - have feedback, am in the process of annotating screenshots for whenever it can be worked on again
• Meetings!

Mark

• Right, meeting day
• Will attempt to make another round of task/patch glances later in the day

Cormac

• File page work continues ...

2018-09-04

Matthias

• Search prototype

Mark

• Nearly caught up on email in record time already, might be able to get into other more different email
• Probably doing some task and patch review later in the afternoon as well
• The Big Meeting later as well

Ramsey=

• finalizing/sending out deck for check-in meeting
• reviewing Cormac's new search doc
• working on outlines for Product team 3–5 year planning thing

Pam

• Annotating the above designs of editing Wikidata on Commons [artwork scenario] for internal review
• Will do a Design review of Search prototype this afternoon
• Parking lot: What's the agenda/deck for today's stakeholder meeting?

Amanda

• Tracking wapping up MCR
• Identifying goals for licensing consultation
• SDC stakeholder meeting
• Share Magnus' doc with Multichill and TheDJ

James

• Hi!
• Looking around at how things are going on the MW/MCR side.
• Currently on 5% time, ramping up to 80% at EOQ.

2018-09-03

Matthias

• Search prototype

Cormac

• SDoC search documentation
• cleanng up patches from last week
• reminder - I'm off tomorrow