Scrum of scrums/2017-02-08
Product
editReading
editiOS native app
edit- Last Week
- Continued work on 5.4, released to internal Beta channel https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/
- Refined UI, added animations, added search suggestions
- Continued work on login
- Continued work on 5.4, released to internal Beta channel https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/
- This week
- Continue work on 5.4
- 2FA
- Integrate design feedback for places, try alternate search suggestion methods
- Continue work on 5.4
Web
edit- Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2460/
- Last week:
- Page Previews fixes, schema changes.
- Created Hindi versions of all three New Readers prototypes.
- Deployed related pages to mobile French wikipedia stable channel.
- Deployed related pages to mobile English wikipedia, 90% of the users.
- This week:
- Create Reading Depth schema: T155639
- Spikes related to problems we're trying to solve from technical, design, and product points of view: phab:T156259, phab:T157071, and phab:T157071.
Android
edit- Last week:
- 2.5.18x beta release and bug fixes in progress https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155917
- Improved multi-window support
- Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ):
- Continue improving the offline experience
Reading Infrastructure
edit- working on TemplateStyles, ORES architecture review
- TemplateStyles RfC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155813
- not blocking/blocked:
Mobile Content Service (MCS)
edit- Kanban Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2445/
- New endpoint for Anniversaries
Community Tech
edit- Block cookies nearing completion (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5233 )
- Making uca-xx the default for MediaWiki installations (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47611 )
- Ongoing investigation into the architecture for Special:RangeContributions (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156318 ) (insight from SQL experts welcome!)
- Starting on rebuilding Mr. Z's popular pages report (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156856 )
- Rewriting XTools, investigation complete (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154551 )
- Porting CopyPatrol to Spanish Wikipedia (http://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155933 )
- Improving date range searches on Special:Contribs, volunteer effort (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120733 )
- Enabling echo on loginwiki (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157105 ) as part of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T11838
- New Wikimedia Cloud Services team (https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086343.html )
- Discussion with enwiki about their plans for a private off-wiki abuse tracking system (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_health_initiative#LTA_Knowledgebase_and_abuse_documentation )
German Technical Wishlist
edit- TwoColConflict extension deployed as a beta feature to mediawiki.org
- ElectronPdfService extension deployed to dewiki
Wikidata
edit- InteriwkiSorting extension deployed to beta sites
- We have test wikis for Lexeme (the Wiktionary project) and federation (the Commons project) now. Currently fine tuning them. Will publish links soon.
- Working on MediaWiki wide support for social network sharing, looks like we must use a Twitter specific meta tag https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157145
Technology
editAnalytics
edit- Community consultation for feedback on Wikistats2.0 design and information architecture.
- Official launch of EventStreams, providing RecentChanges. irc.wikimedia.org and RCStream continue to work but are now deprecated in favor of EventStreams.
- Rack and setup of 3 new machines for AQS. The last one is being setup now, ETA tomorrow.
- Banner activity pivot data set is now updated minutely via spark-streaming.
- Changes in pageview data set: remove action=submit, new bot in regexp, new field - namespace_id (to be deployed today)
Research
edit- In the process of looking for product and tech leads for Recommendation API productization
Security
edit- Security Reviews:
- Extension:3d
- Trending Edits Endpoint
- OIT LDAP Tools (wrap-up)
Services
edit- Blockers: none
- Updates:
- RFC Discussion REST API language variant support
- RFC Discussion Thumb API
Fundraising Tech
edit- Hiring replacement for Casey, who's turning devops
- More work on new PayPal integration: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107372, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153720
- Matching gifts import for CiviCRM: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115044
- Method to purge CentralNotice banners from caches: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154954
RelEng
edit- Blocking:
- Nothing as far as we know
- Blocked:
- Ops/Performance (Aaron): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125735 (redis timeouts for jobqueue)
- Mobile web: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157515 (undefined variable in MobileFrontend, blocking train)
- Updates:
- Expect to hear some noise about production log errors. We're going to start getting...strict...on this
Discovery
edit- No blockers
- A/B tests for sister wiki searches start soon on Polish, Persian, Italian, and Catalan Wikipedias: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149806
- Working on ElasticSearch 5 upgrade
- Working on improving wikidata search
- Published description on how we test search: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Search/Testing_Search
- Deployed TextCat improvements: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_Improvements
- Added frequently used aliases for filetype: keyword: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156413
- Published call for comments on secondary search options: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2017-February/001426.html
- Improved error reporting for advanced search syntax: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149142
Product part 2
editEditing
editUI Standardization
edit- This week
- Outlining path forward on Devise a generic way for theme-agnostic stylesheets to adapt to the current theme https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112747
- feedback from core devs gathered
- Provide WikimediaUI Base's base.less in MW core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123359
- feedback from core devs gathered
- Outlining path forward on Devise a generic way for theme-agnostic stylesheets to adapt to the current theme https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112747
- Updates
- OOjs UI:
- Further improvements on form layouts in OOUI MW core forms for better user experience – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136790
- MediaWiki theme: Align tab navigation to color palette
- Mediawiki theme: Fix focus inset to overlap scrollbars – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103851
- OOjs UI:
Collaboration
edit- Blocked - None
- Blocking - None
- Updates
- Continued work on new RecentChanges front and backend.
- Working with other teams to finalize ReviewStream spec.
- Flow bug fix
Multimedia
edit- Blocked
- Security review for 3D extension (scheduled, thanks!)
- Discovery could maybe help with a schema change for img_media_type - adding 3D media type, supporting filetype:3D queries in CirrusSearch.
- Blocking: None
- Updates
- Firefogg losing support, we'll turn it off next week for UploadWizard
- 3D extension nearly ready to go live, once we finish reviews and some polish, we'll push it out. Stay tuned!