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Scrum of scrums/2017-07-12

< Scrum of scrums

2017-07-12 edit

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

Callouts edit

Audiences edit

Readers edit

iOS native app edit

Android native app edit

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    • reading list syncing UI work is nearly done; on deck: ZIM support
    • Stephen working on cross-platform CSS/JS consolidation
    • engineer interviews in progress

Reading Web edit

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    • Discovered a browser bug that impacts EventLogging (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170018 ) If your projects are relying on it you may want to check that.
    • Planning to roll out Page previews to all wikis except German and English.
    • Minerva and MobileFrontend will be split this week
    • Updating Vector's print styles

Reading Infrastructure edit

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    • Discussions about Summary 2.0 Spec and title properties.
    • Measuring payload reduction of MCS transformations with removal of reference lists.
    • working on Reading Lists

Multimedia edit

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    • Beta thumbnails are looking better, but 3D thumbnails are still broken - could use input from releng/performance about what might be causing this https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170444
    • Patch to properly label webm audio files as audio/webm (currently video/webm)

Discovery edit

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    • (maps) Ops out this week, ops + developers out next week
    • (search) running A/B test on Special:Search "explore similar" feature

Community Tech edit

Contributors edit

Editing edit

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Parsing edit

Global Collaboration edit

Collaboration edit
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    • Better UI for Echo notification blacklist feature
    • RCFilters
      • Initial implementation of live updates!
      • Bug fixes
    • Article Reminder notification
      • Initial implementation behind feature flag

Contributors Design edit

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Technology edit

Analytics edit

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Cloud Services edit

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Fundraising Tech edit

MediaWiki Platform edit

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Performance edit

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Release Engineering edit

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    • 1.29-rc.1 is out, hopefully release out this week (Friday if nothing comes up)

Research edit

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Scoring Platform edit

Search Platform edit

Security edit

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    • Auditing labs views and sanitarium redaction
    • Review reccomendation api service
    • review Vue.js library review
    • review AdvancedSearch extension


Services edit

=== Technical Operations === (apologies for not being around)

Analytics edit

  • Released a new snapshot of mediawiki_history today, it has cummulative revision counts! See the announcement on analytics-l
  • Deploying an alpha version of the new Wikistats 2.0 UI working with real data
  • Lots of work on purging data from EventLogging according to our data retention guidelines and privacy policies
  • Preparing for the Kafka 0.10 upgrade
  • Getting ready to decommission stat1002 and stat1003 and replace them with new boxes
  • Joseph is on parental leave until the end of July
  • Dan is going on parental leave at some point within the next few weeks

Wikidata edit

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German Technical Wishlist edit

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