Scrum of scrums/2018-05-16

2018-05-16

Callouts

• Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
• Readers Web, Performance: Help reviewing the CitationUsage schema instrumentation: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/432534/.
• Modern Event Platform -- Analytics starting interviewing user, anyone interested should reach Andrew Otto (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185233)

Audiences

Readers

iOS native app

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• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • 5.8.1 released; small bug fixes + Wikidata magic word override ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3339/ )
  • Continuing work on tech debt release, 5.8.2 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3358/ )

Android native app

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Readers Web

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• Updates:
  • Working with Services on Proton (Chromium PDF rendering backend service) instrumentation https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189307
  • Page issues A/B testing framework in progress https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193584
  • Team is at offsite + hackathon so not much else going on
  • Full stack engineer backfill hiring continues
  • Minor Popups refactoring
• Quarterly goal dependency update:
  • Outcome 1, Objective 4: Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption
    • Reading Web depends on SRE, RelEng, Reading Infra

Readers Infrastructure

• Blocked by:
  • RelEng on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/432310/
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Closed out most follow-up work for Short description magic word.
  • Reading list browser extensions (Chrome/FF/Safari) coming soon.
• Quarterly goal dependency update:
  • Outcome 1, Objective 4: Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption
    • Reading Web depends on SRE, RelEng, Reading Infra
  • Increase code sharing of client apps by coalescing and moving more logic to the server
    • Reading Infra depends on Parsing, Services

Maps

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Multimedia

• Updates
  • Hackathon prep impacting some throughput
  • OOUI work on WikibaseMediaInfo elements to start soon; UploadWizard license selection getting OOUI makeover as well
  • Search indexing hitting some snags - discussion ongoing
• Quarterly goal dependency update:
  • Objective 3.1 Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
    • SDC depends on Multimedia,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research
  • Objective 2.1 Integrate structured file captions into search
    • SDC depends on Search Platform, Multimedia
  • Segment 4, Outcome 2: Develop a better understanding of existing needs for Structured Commons- T171252
    • Research depends on Multimedia

Contributors

Community Tech

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• Updates:
  • GlobalPreferences live on test wikis, will be slowly rolling it out further
  • Investigating how to integrate PageTriage with ORES and some external copyvio detection service

Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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Parsing

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• Updates:
• Quarterly goal dependency update:
  • Goal 3.6 Support work towards unifying MediaWiki's parser implementations, in liaison with Technology's MediaWiki team
    • Parsing depends on MediaWiki Platform, Services
  • Increase code sharing of client apps by coalescing and moving more logic to the server

Increase code sharing of client apps by coalescing and moving more logic to the server.

• • • Reading Infra depends on Parsing, Services

Outcome 2: Objective 1: Revision storage scaling

• • • Services depends on SRE, Parsing

Collaboration

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Language

• Blocked by: Core Platform to take a look at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151116 - Abuse filters set to warn users require two captchas
• Blocking: None
• Updates:
  • ContentTranslation Version 2 work continue.
  • Most of team members will be at Hackathon, so slow week.
• Quarterly goal dependency update:
  • Goal 3.1 Improve and consolidate our unified editing platform so that it's great on all devices
    • Language depends on Editing

Audiences Design

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UI Standardization

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Technology

Analytics

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• Updates:
  • Modern Event Platform -- We're starting interviewing user, anyone interested should reach Andrew Otto (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185233)
  • We have a replacement for pivot called Turnilo (exact same but opensource) - https://turnilo.wikimedia.org - We'll soon redirect pivot URLs to turnilo
  • Geoeditors available in Hive and Druid - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Lake/Edits/Geoeditors - Dashboard in Superset (wikitech account + ping to analytics needed)
  • virtualpageview_hourly (aggregation of pageviews and page-previews) are available in hive and druid
  • Testing of Druid 0.11 is done, some changes in how we handle streaming data to be done before rolling out
  • Burrow (Kafka monitoring tool) has been upgrade to version 1.1

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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MediaWiki Platform

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• Updates:
• Quarterly goal dependency update:
  • Goal 3.6 Support work towards unifying MediaWiki's parser implementations, in liaison with Technology's MediaWiki team
    • Parsing depends on MediaWiki Platform, Services
  • Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
    • SDC depends on Multimedia/,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research
  • Objective 1.1 Assist with deploying MultiContent Revisions on Commons

T174022 Implement multi-content revisions, T174023 Implement MCR storage layer, T174045 DB schema migration for MCR, T174044 Deploy MCR storage layer, T174043Deploy Multi-Content Revisions

• • • SDC depends on MediaWiki Platform, WMDE

Performance

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Release Engineering

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• Updates:
  • Most of the team are in Barcelona this week for the Wikimedia hackathon as well as a team offsite. Ping twentyafterfour in #wikimedia-releng if you need assistance.
• Quarterly goal dependency update:
  • Outcome 1, Objective 4: Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption
    • Reading Web depends on SRE, RelEng, Reading Infra

Research

• Blocked by: None (just waiting for some reviews on schema instrumentation code)
• Blocking: None
• Updates:
  • Finished up the first version of the CitationUsage schema instrumentation. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/432534/
  • Working on improving the recommendation API algorithm.https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190774
• Quarterly goal dependency update:
  • Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
    • SDC depends on Multimedia/,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research
  • Segment 4, Outcome 2: Develop a better understanding of existing needs for Structured Commons- T171252
    • Research depends on Multimedia

Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

• Blocked by:
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• Updates:
• Quarterly goal dependency update:
  • Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
    • SDC depends on Multimedia/,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research
  • *Objective 2.1 Integrate structured file captions into search
    • SDC depends on Search Platform, Multimedia

Security

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• Quarterly goal dependency update:
  • Goal 3.6: Support work towards unifying MediaWiki's parser implementations, in liaison with Technology's MediaWiki team
    • Parsing depends on MediaWiki Platform, Services

Services

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
• Quarterly goal dependency update:
  • Increase code sharing of client apps by coalescing and moving more logic to the server.
    • Reading Infra/Parsing, Services
  • Goal 3.6 Support work towards unifying MediaWiki's parser implementations, in liaison with Technology's MediaWiki team
    • Parsing depends on MediaWiki Platform, Services

Outcome 2: Objective 1: Revision storage scaling

• • • Services depends on SRE, Parsing

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by: Collaboration on Flow dumps, T172025
• Blocking: None
• Updates:
  • Various SREs will be at the hackathon
  • Addressing a mailing list subscription spam attack. For now it's a whack a mole game, will probably implement some captcha on registration
  • Moving forward with mcrouter deployment for multi-dc https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192370
  • Debmonitor passed reviews, pending deployment https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191298
  • Looking at AES128-SHA usage from toolforge bots
  • Proton deployment passed beta by services, proceeding with production deployment
• Quarterly goal dependency update:
  • Outcome 1, Objective 4: Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption. Proton deployment passed beta by services, proceeding with production deployment
    • Reading Web depends on SRE, RelEng, Reading Infra
  • Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
    • SDC depends on Multimedia/,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research

Outcome 2: Objective 1: Revision storage scaling

• • • Services depends on SRE, Parsing

Wikidata

• Blocked by:
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• Updates:
• Quarterly goal dependency update:
  • Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
    • SDC depends on Multimedia/,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research
  • Objective 1.1 Assist with deploying MultiContent Revisions on Commons

T174022 Implement multi-content revisions, T174023 Implement MCR storage layer, T174045 DB schema migration for MCR, T174044 Deploy MCR storage layer, T174043Deploy Multi-Content Revisions

• • • SDC depends on MediaWiki Platform, WMDE

German Technical Wishlist

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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