Scrum of scrums/2018-05-23

2018-05-23

Callouts

• Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
• Research is looking for reviewers of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/432534/

Audiences

Readers

iOS native app

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • 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:
• 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

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• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Publishing reading list browser extensions this week (at least for Chrome and FF, Safari probably later): https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Reading_list_browser_extension
  • Running announcement in the apps for above starting this Friday (for one week).
  • A couple of changes to media endpoint 1.1.0 will be deployed on Wednesday: description is now an object with html and text fields; added license.code field
• 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

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: None
• Updates:
  • Testing maps on Debian Stretch as part of reinstall and cartography update
  • Figuring out how to have a Jessie and a Stretch build with scap

Multimedia

• Updates
  • OOUI work on WIkibaseMediaInfo and UploadWizard
  • UI work on search
  • backend work on search indexing
• 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 being rolled out

Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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Parsing

• Blocked by:
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• Updates:
  • Tidy -> RemexHtml: final switch planned for June 27th / July 11th (to be finalized)

• 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
    • Ongoing as above wrt Tidy.
  • 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
  • Nothing that we are aware of from RI.

Outcome 2: Objective 1: Revision storage scaling

• • • Services depends on SRE, Parsing

Collaboration

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Language

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: None
• Updates:
  • Work on ContentTranslation Version 2 continue.
  • Had successful Hackathon!
• 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

UI Standardization

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Hackathon aftermath, evaluating accessibility issues
  • OOUI – no release this week, but continued work on Special:Preferences transformed to OOUI and related tasks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180538
  • Work on a few, minor UI/UX issues in AdvancedSearch with WMDE team
  • Vector spring cleanup, removing special treatment for IE 6

Technology

Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

• Blocked by:
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• Updates:
  • Fixing bugs on Ingenico Connect API integration discovered in 1 hour test
  • Still working on backend pipeline for CentralNotice EventLogging stats
  • Testing new CiviCRM version
  • Tweaking contact display

MediaWiki Platform

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• 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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• 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

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• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Creating a web app to collect more section title mappings: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195354
  • Gather data for creating article creating models: 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

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: None
• Updates:
  • Hackathon and offsite
    • Simple ORES gadgets (item quality for Wikidata, draft topic for English Wikipedia)
      • https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:EpochFail/ItemQuality.js and .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail/DraftTopic.js
      • Goal is to inspire new tools :) Please try out these simple tools.
    • Advanced edit quality support for Serbian & Bosnian support coming
    • Article quality for Basque wiki is coming

Search Platform

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Hackathon Reindexing Wikidata to add string & external ID properties to search index Deep category search to be enabled on all wikis starting next week: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194260 Working on Polish analyzer: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186046 Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108 Working on Lexeme fulltext search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189739

• 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

• Blocked by:
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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

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 for flow, T172025
• Blocking:
  • None
• Updates:
  • Preparing for proton deployment next week
  • Hackathon was nice, we could move graphoid to kubernetes this quarter
  • SRE will have an offsite during 3rd week of June, expect minimal availability for goals that week.
• 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
  • 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:

   Nothing

• Blocking:

   No one we hope

• Updates:

   LexData is live and running on production, we released today 6 hours ago.
   Thanks for Stas for the help yesterday! You saved our release, much appreciated 

• 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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