Scrum of scrums/2016-12-21
Product
editReading
editiOS native app
edit- Last Week
- Shipped 5.3.2 (Dynamic text size, data layer update, performance enhancements) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2281/
- More performance enhancements & bug fixes
- Started work on this day in history MCS endpoint
- Started work on 5.4 (Nearby, Login updates) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/
- This week
- Monitor 5.3.2 release, fix any remaining issues, release 5.3.3 on Thursday
- Continue work on 5.4
Android native app
edit- Last week:
- More bug fixes for new release
- Released v2.4.184 to prod
- Continuing Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions
- Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ):
- Holiday
- Work towards release of Wikidata description editing
Web
edit- Current Sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2405/
- Mostly finishing up work left from last week
- Allow users who have the NavPopups gadget to use PagePreviews
- Start working towards Wikipedia branding on the mobile site
- Next week: chilling
Mobile Content Service (MCS)
edit- Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1323/query/open/
- Deployed (last week):
- Emitted etags have double quotes now. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150886
- To be deployed next year:
- Add additional information to file and user pages clients can use for rendering
- Ordered news link to have "most relevant" article in a news story appear first in list
- Working on:
- Adding isDisambiguation flag
Reading Infrastructure
edit- working on tech debt mostly
- not blocking
- blocked:
- WMDE on the last API i18n patch before we can move to hard deprecation: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/321464/
Community Tech
edit- Blockers: None
- Blocked: Nope
- Special page for looking at page assessments data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PageAssessments is deployed to all wikis
- Wikimania scholarships app was updated for the next iteration and will be deployed in January when the deploy freeze ends
- A draft proposal about setting up a Tool Labs Standards committee: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Tool_Labs_standards_committee
- Continue to roll out improvements to Programs Dashboard
Discovery
edit- No blockers
- Continuing work on crosswiki searching, refactoring Special:Search and allowing extensions to define query keywords
- Added ICU folding to hewiki
- Added support for returning interwiki results driven by language detection via API: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142795
- Updated portal stats on Dec 12th (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546)
- Wikidata Query Service now supports triple pattern fragments: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/User_Manual#Linked_Data_Fragments_endpoint
Interactive
edit- Published Terms of Use for maps: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Maps_Terms_of_Use
- Structured data (tabular data on commons) is live, and seems to be working with minor bugs
- Fun demos:
Editing
editCollaboration
edit- Blockers: None
- Blocked: None
- Updates:
- Continued work on getting new RC page finished and merged.
- Various bug fixes, e.g. to Echo
- Coordinating about Deferred Changes
- Finishing up processing the Flow survey results
Technology
editServices
edit- Blockers: none
- Updates:
- Trending service deployed and completely functional. Check it out!
- All scb services config deploys are on scap3 now
- Separated API cluster from appservers cluster
- Moved RESTBase/Parsoid background updates to codfw
- Team availability update:
- Marko is around until NY and on vacation the week after
- Petr is on vacation for 2 weeks
- Eric and Gabriel and on vacation next week
Technical Operations
edit- Blocked
- By none
- Blocking
- None
- Updates
- Start of Q4 will probably have a DC switchover in it. Goal for Ops (and other teams) in next quarter is automating and streamlining it more
- preliminary support for encryption when talking to backend appservers is here
- Ubuntu Precise Pangolin will be fully phased out by end of next quarter in both labs and production. Services/apps will have to migrate or cease to be.
Fundraising Tech
edit- CiviCRM: data hygiene fixes
- finding and batch refunding unintended duplicate donations, brainstorming ways to prevent more
- investigated Ireland missing impressions, suspect rural network speeds are the culprit
- internal dashboard fixes
- fixed mobile style for backup payment processor
Analytics
edit- Culmination of 8 months of work, standard metrics computed on reconstructed mediawiki history: https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/standard-metrics/
- Newly updated mediawiki history beta pivot data cube: https://pivot.wikimedia.org/#mediawiki-history-beta
- stat1001 was replaced with thorium, and stat1001 is being decommissioned
- Thanks very much for the reviews to the mediawiki-Dashiki extension, I'll be looking to deploy that and JsonConfig to meta early next quarter (any advice appreciated, but the docs seem comprehensive)
- Starting to clean up datasets.wikimedia.org structure (adding readmes and keeping everything the same via symlinks)
Research
edit- Showcase featuring Tor users and Wikipedia Quality Dynamics today at 11:30AM PST, 19:30 UTC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmrlu5qTgyA