Roadmap/2012/February

February 2012

Operations

• Data Centers
  • Text Squid deployment @ Eqiad (100% of traffic) [DONE]
  • API Squid deployment @ EQIAD [DONE]
  • EQIAD datacenter new row of racks [ordered, in progress]
  • db refresh (s1 to s7) [Asher] [DONE]
  • Set up new server for Torrus (Manutius) [Mark] [DONE]

• Swift
  • Thumbnail server replacement - Back-end (ms5) [Ben]
    • wikitech:Swift/Deploy Plan - Thumbnails
    • 100% thumbs deployment [DONE] (temp. reverted 2/28)

• Wikimedia Labs
  • Deploy Labs Gluster File storage cluster [Ryan/Sara] [DONE]

• HTTPS
  • Move internal wikis to HTTPS-only
    • OfficeWiki [DONE]
  • less Httpsless domains [DanielZ]

• Data Dumps
  • Set up XML Dump infrastructure @ EQIAD [Ariel]
    • Dataset1001 [DONE]
    • Snapshot[1001..1004] [DONE]
  • Put Dataset1001 into production [DONE]

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Features

Editing tools

• Visual editor
  • Editable Surface feature additions ongoing
  • First iteration of minimal round trip functionality [2/2012]
  • Content Editable feature parity with ES feature set [2/2012]
  • IME functionality development and integration [2/2012]

• Parsoid
  • ...

• Internationalization and localization tools
  • Additional translate extension improvements [2/2012]

Participation and editor engagement

• Article feedback
  • Decide on "winner": Preliminary discussion with community [DONE]
  • Design and development of first version of Feedback Page, using data from test versions of Feedback Form [DONE]

• Article Creation Workflow
  • Article Creation Interstitial: Deploy first release to labs/prototype [2/10] [DONE]

• New Page Triage
  • Scrum training with Thoughtworks [DONE]
  • Begin sprint planning -- define first sprint [DONE]

Multimedia tools

• UploadWizard
  • [?] Enable chunked uploading support

Feature support

• Wikipedia Education Program
  • ...

Reader tools

• Personal image filter
  • development presumed to begin, may be done via vendor development. Support third party block lists instead of categories?

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Mobile

(heavy traveling for mobile team) [DONE]

• Product plan
  • • Mobile Uploads: Initial workflow [DONE]

• UI mockups
  • Full screen search [DONE]
  • New collapsable sections [DONE]
  • New footer [DONE]
  • New contact us form [DONE]

• MobileFrontend
  • MobileFrontend Refactor
    • De-Wikimedify MobileFrontend [Arthur] [DONE]
    • Cleanup of JS/CSS in MF [Jon] [DONE]

• Wikipedia Android app
  • V1.1beta1 [DONE]
  • V1.1beta2 [DONE]

• Wikipedia iOS app
  • V3.1beta1 [DONE]

• WikipediaZero
  • [TESTING]

• Wikipedia over SMS/USSD
  • [TESTING]

• GPS Storage/Retrieval
  • [TESTING]

Special projects

• Kiwix on Android
  • http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4F426983.2080908%40engelhart.org&forum_name=kiwix-developer

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Platform / Dev-Ops

MediaWiki Core

• MediaWiki 1.19/Roadmap
  • Finish code review for 1.19 [DONE]
  • Cut 1.19 release branch [DONE]
  • 1.19 deploy (from SVN)

• Git/Conversion
  • Final test conversion of trunk + extensions [DONE]
  • Documentation tasks (blog post on Git) [DONE]

• SwiftMedia
  • 100% deployment for thumbnails [Aaron/Ben/Mark B] [IN PROGRESS]
    • BEFORE 1.19 deployment.
    • Thumbnail response to end-users will work by hitting squids, falling back to swift, falling back to ms5, falling back to image scalers. [DONE]
    • Thumbnail purging will work as it does now except swift will be purged via a MediaWiki hook. [DONE]

• Lua scripting
  • Design work begins - significant work won't begin until March

Analytics

• Log collection pipeline
  • (udp2log) Deploy new consolidated filtering code for test filters to emery [Diederik/Tim/Roan] [DONE]
  • (mobile) refactor Nimish's code, incorporate fixes causing discrepancy between Nimish and Erik's code [Diederik/Andre] [DONE]

• Analytics/Reportcard
  • Development work on Report Card Prototype [Ongoing]

TL;DR

• Wikimedia blog maintenance
  • Upgrade core to WordPress 3.3.1 and third-party plugins to their latest version (RT# created) [Ops] [DONE]