Scrum of scrums/2017-05-24

2017-05-24 edit

Call outs: edit

  • Analytics is working on a script for purging EventLogging Mysql (for those of you who don't expect that, please talk to us :).

contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering

Reading edit

iOS edit

Android edit

Wikimedia Deutschland edit

  • Very slow week. Many attended the Hackathon in Vienna, many still in Vienna for WikiCite. This Thursday is a public holiday, Friday typically a day off.
  • Wikidata team makes progress on the Lexeme UI.

Analytics edit

  • Missed past 2 weeks - Apologies.
  • Last week we were in offsite + hackathon (2) - Yearly and preliminary quarterly goals have been discussed/agreed.
  • Ongoing: EventLogging to Hive code is in code review, we should have some tests soon.
  • Vetting Last_access_uniques for global sites (*.wikimedia.org) is taking us long time because of unexpected data issues.
  • We just deployed Event Logging with better bot detection (bot events are not stored in Mysql anymore).
  • Reportcards updated to mark notable data events.
  • Pageview data in Druid is now updated hourly (less than 2 hours late).
  • Pivot (data visualisation for Druid) is not Opensource anymore, we need to find a replacement.
  • We are working on a script for purging EventLogging Mysql (for those of you who don't expect that, please talk to us :).
  • Druid and pivot currently not working due to upgrade.

Technical Operations edit

Services edit

  • Blockers: none
  • NOT ATTENDING. nothing to report due to hackathon and vacations

Fundraising Tech edit

  • More code cleanup and de-duplication as we move stuff from mediawiki extension to libraries
  • Fixing behavior of fraud filters on connection failure
  • CentralNotice deployment delayed on oojs-core library dependency, Andrew Green is talking to editing about a bugfix release
  • More Civi integration with third party email house

Editing edit

Language edit

  • No blockers/blocking.
  • Work on ContentTranslation migration to OOjs UI continue.

Parsing edit

Collaboration edit

Blocking edit

  • Coordinating with Ops about a Flow dump issue

Blocked edit

Updates edit

  • Continued work on RC Filters UX, especially regarding namespace filters
  • Work on Echo patches at the hackathon
    • Notification blacklist to block certain senders from notifying you. This won't be in production (other than testwiki) anytime soon, but we're working on getting it ready to test
    • Improvements to edit-user-talk notification, to also notify for subpages

Discovery edit

  • No blockers
  • Recovering from Hackaton/offsite/travel
  • Working on upgrade to Elastic 5.3
  • Working on ML-enabled search ranking infrastructure

CommTech edit