Scrum of scrums/2018-07-11

2018-07-11

Callouts

• Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
• Datacenter switchover will happen on the end of this quarter. Dates not fully set, but a tentative range is 17-29 September 2018 and a switchback on 8-19 October 2018. We plan for at least 3 weeks this time around.
• Analytics: Spark is now available in Jupyter notebooks

Audiences

Readers

iOS native app

Natalia

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• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Planning to be feature complete on 6.0.0 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.0-walrus-on-a-unicycle/) by the end of the week of July 9
  • User testing of feed redesign and search coming up (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198932 )

Android native app

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• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Multi-language release is in production.
  • Working on completing prototypes for A/B testing at Wikimania (includes navigation redesigns, table-of-contents variations, and Wikitext Keyboard)
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3367/

Readers Web

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• Updates:
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Page issues UI T199005 T191532 T197932 T191528 T199005 T198115 T197931
    • Improve diff UI T197491 T197729
    • Fixes and hygiene T193418 T193821 T198930 T197106 T199156 T193754 T196767 T188937 T193069
    • Finalizing designs for collapsible templates T111565
    • Planning for advanced mobile contributions
  • Desktop website (Popups):
    • Abort outdated HTTP requests T197700
    • Send the Accept-Language header when calling API T198619
  • Design and product are preparing user interviews for Wikimania

Readers Infrastructure

James

• Blocked by:
  • Release Engineering (CI) for merge of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/442126
  • Language Team for review of the stack with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/443687
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Working with the iOS and Android teams on using the Page Library's transforms in the service. (T170584)
  • Still working on supporting lang variants in MCS via the uselang parameter to MW API requests. (T195948)
  • Safari Reading List extension now submitted, awaiting approval from Safari extension store. (T191998)
  • Maps work continues; working with Discovery colleagues to move the test cluster out of production. (T172090)

Multimedia

Matthias

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• Updates:
  • Working on search interface prototyping, so users can search by Wikibase properties/values
  • Continuing work on search backend

Contributors

Community Tech

Moriel

• Blocked by:
  • PageTriage, can't merge anything right now: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198137 (help)
• Blocking:
• Updates: GlobalPreferences is deployed; we're working on API modules

Anti-Harassment Tools

Moriel

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• Updates:
  • RfC coming

Editing

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Parsing

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Growth

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Language

Kartik

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• Updates:
  • Content Translation v2 - work continues: MT warnings and calculations, Users to notify about old drafts and bug fixes

Audiences Design

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UI Standardization

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• Updates:
  • New OOUI release coming to MW master today, nothing major.

Technology

Analytics

Francisco

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• Blocking:
  • Eventlogging outage - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180705-EventLogging-in-Hive
• Updates
  • Close to deploy pagecounts (legacy pageviews) to wikistats, they been available on API for a while
  • Maps improvements
  • Working with security on threat model of analytics stack. [wiki, email]
  • We had a data drop (now backfilled) that highlighted lack of alarms in our current eventlogging hadoop pipeline, we will be working on those.

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

Elliott

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• Updates:
  • Running another 1-hour test on new API for main CC processor
    • sorry for the email disruption!
      • Amazon IP address change led to a failmail for each incoming payment notification
      • Casey working with net ops team to get firewall rules updated
  • More CiviCRM core updates
  • More work on CiviCRM donor data deletion extension
  • More work on backend for EventLogging-based banner/landingpage impressions stats
  • Testing new CiviCRM extension for recurring donations
  • Adding per-country email opt-in checkbox on donation forms

MediaWiki Core Platform

Cindy

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• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • MediaWiki Platform Team is now part of the Core Platform Team (with Services)
  • Deployed a change to Phabricator config in response to more Phabricator vandalism
  • Working on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100782, "Redirect loop detected" error live in production
  • Platform Evolution Program:
    • Sent kickoff emails to stakeholder teams
    • preparing questions for stakeholders to get input for Wikimedia Technical Conference
  • patches needing review
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/443440 (<style>-in-TOC bugfix)
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/322729 (Externallinks indexing)
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/444464 (mobile Commons login failure bugfix)

2** the usual code review and bug work

Performance

Ian

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Updates:
  • All wikis are writing to both nutcracker and to mcrouter (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/444932). Reads are coming only from nutcracker for the time being to ensure the mcrouter cache is hot before switching.
  • Fixed a regression in SaveTiming related to an MCR change: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198483
  • Working on a patch that will cause a warning when a duplicate parse occurs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172941
  • Released CSSJanus 1.3.0

Release Engineering

Antoine

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• Blocking:
  • James F. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/442126
  • Moriel: UBN https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198137 (help)
• Updates:
  • Mediawiki train happening during European time this week: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-July/090287.html
  • MediaWiki 1.29 is end of life https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197669
  • Working with MediaWiki Platform Team / Cindy about MediaWiki releasing
  • (Security team) Two-factor authentication to be enforced on GitHub https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198810
  • Phabricator spam / anti vandalism is ongoing
  • Help clean up unused config in production: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Krinkle/Unused_config

Research

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Scoring Platform

Adam W.

• Blocked by:
  • JADE deployment discussions, around schema scalability.
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196547
    • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_wiki_page vs. scalability
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Risker/Risker%27s_checklist_for_content-creation_extensions
    • Are we going to re-architect this away from wiki pages after all?
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Search Platform

Stas

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• Updates:
  • Refactored search configs to move tuning to mediawiki-config: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182717
  • Fixed namespace/redirect mixup in search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115756
  • Created separate namespace index: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192699
  • Working on puppet setup multi-instance Elasticsearch: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198351
  • Working on fixing Polish analyzer: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186046
  • Working on ES 6.3 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198067
  • Working on Lexeme fulltext search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196188
  • Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108

Security

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Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Updates:
  • Proton is up and running.
  • Eqiad network maintenance ongoing, mostly handled without issues, do expect the occasional hiccup
  • Work started on PHP7 for MediaWiki
  • grafana-admin.wikimedia.org last users, update your bookmarks.

Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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Multi-Content Revisions

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• Updates:
  • read old / write both mode for revision / content schema migration will be enabled on beta and master (not WMF) next week. See full timeline at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TkznqoaMH6HTQBSMxXPRhSOo8auf1oMLx6c-Cjjf-Sk/edit#gid=0
  • Storage layer (phase 1) tasks nearing completion
  • Delivery date of MCR code for SDC use case is 1 Sept 2018

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
  • Removed the goals dependency check-in from notes template. Will address that communication via another mechanism.