Scrum of scrums/2018-10-17

2018-10-17 edit

Callouts edit

Audiences edit

Contributors edit

Community Tech edit

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Anti-Harassment Tools edit

Editing edit

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Growth edit

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    • Copyvio logging is in progress on enwiki, so users of Special:NewPagesFeed?copyvio=1 can see drafts and articles which potentially have copyvio

Language edit

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Readers edit

iOS native app edit

Android native app edit

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Readers Web edit

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    • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
      • Add share button T181195
      • Make the watchlist accessible to non-JavaScript browsers T196893
      • Maintenance and bug fixes T204835
    • SEO:
      • Add Schema.org Article JSON-LD to main namespace pages T198946 (thanks for all the help cscott!)
    • Management supporting Multimedia hiring processes
    • Product continuing 3-5 year planning.

Readers Infrastructure edit

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    • At offsite this week (not attending).


Multimedia edit

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    • Hiring continues
    • SDoC - ready to go to beta once James F comes back from his offsite
    • SDoC - discussion on data modelling continues
    • SDoC - usability study on multi-lingual captions
    • SDoC - ... other stuff to do with allowing users to add/search on 'depicts' statements

Parsing edit

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UI Standardization edit

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Technology edit

Analytics edit

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    • EventLogging - To - Druid automatic ingester now uses a whitelist instead of a blacklist. It's smoother and accepting more kinds of data, come talk to us if you're interested
    • Various Wikistats 2 UI bug fixes, will focus on this all quarter to prepare it for a Beta release by the end of the year
    • Progress on importing XML dumps, automatic job will be deployed soon and we'll start working on processing the content
    • Working on the quality of Mediawiki History data in the Data Lake, addressing edge cases that we left for later
    • Prototyping node Event Intake service for the Modern Event Platform
    • EventLogging javascript client lost debug validation by default, and will soon no longer need Schema ResourceLoader modules, see migration info: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205744

Cloud Services edit

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Fundraising Tech edit

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    • Email campaigns have been underway for a couple weeks now, seeing a decent amount of traffic
    • Fixing some payments-wiki card processor error handling
    • Refactoring CiviCRM imports to use drupal batch API
    • Still finishing up new code to import and aggregate banner and landing page stats to mysql on the FR cluster
    • Dusting off the internal donations dashboard for the Big English campaign

MediaWiki Core Platform edit

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Performance edit

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Release Engineering edit

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    • (MediaWiki-General-or-Unknown) T207288 Text in the Sidebar does no longer show the message text, only the message name
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    • Interviewing on-going for our Developer Productivity position: https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1225258?gh_src=f15731e11
    • Train Health:
      • Last week: no train, datacenter switchover T191071 1.32.0-wmf.25 deployment blockers
      • This week: the last 1.32 release T191072 1.32.0-wmf.26 deployment blockers
        • Still open/blocking: T207288 Text in the Sidebar does no longer show the message text, only the message name (MediaWiki-General-or-Unknown)
        • Resolved: T207220 AFComputedVariable.php: Argument to getLinksFromDB() must be an instance of Article - the cause has been identified and reverted.
      • Next week: 1.33 starts the next week - T191072 1.32.0-wmf.26 deployment blockers
    • Log Health:
      • T204871 Deployments of MediaWiki with scap cause a spam of "web request took longer than 60 seconds and timed out"
    • Code Health:
      • Metrics group meets weekly
      • T207046 Code health metrics spike

Research edit

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Scoring Platform edit

Search Platform edit

Security edit


Services edit

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Site Reliability Engineering edit

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    • Switchback completed successfully
    • S8 (wikidata) eqiad missing data due to replication issues still being fully fixed
    • Blubber 0.6.0 packaged and uploaded
    • Apache puppet restructuring ongoing to support php7

Wikidata edit

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German Technical Wishlist edit

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Multi-Content Revisions edit

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping edit

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    • Agreement to change meeting start time to 35 mins past the hour