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Scrum of scrums/2019-04-03

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2019-04-03 edit

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Audiences edit

Contributors edit

Community Tech edit

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    • EventMetrics has been demoed to users and is officially available. We are cleaning up some bugs now.

Anti-Harassment Tools edit

Editing edit

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    • Mobile section editing A/B test running on most wikis

Growth edit

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    • The team is currently coding the start module for the newcomer homepage, and designing the mobile version of the homepage

Language edit

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    • ContentTranslation version 2 is default from now unless user has draft already in version 1.
    • Cron script to purge old unpublished drafts deployed and running at every 15 days to purge drafts older than 455 days.

Readers edit

iOS native app edit

Android native app edit

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Readers Web edit

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    • Summary: technical planning for next year, continuing advanced mobile contributions features and the MobileFrontend architecture investment project.
    • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Quick Surveys
      • Allow quicksurveys to target based on registration date T218304
    • Desktop website (Popups)
    • Planning
      • MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture planning for next fiscal year

Readers Infrastructure edit

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    • Suggested Edits APIs are launched in production (Wikidata)
    • PCS/MCS/Maps: Nothing particularly interesting

Multimedia edit

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    • Still working towards 2nd release of SDoC (depicts statements), pretty much code complete but many speedbumps along the way
      • Turned on wikidata federation on live commons, and it broke various things. All since patched, working on some integration tests before we try it again (just in case)
    • Work continues for subsequent releases

Parsing edit

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UI Standardization edit

Technology edit

Analytics edit

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    • Scooping data for mediawiki reconstruction from new analytics labs replica on the beginning of the month.
    • Launched small tweak to wikistats UI to better explain wikistats1 users where to find things on Wikistats2, take a look: https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/metrics/all-projects [wiki, email]
    • Reenabling EventGate in prod and working on changes to be able to persist two streams of data in the new format: api requests and search requests.

Cloud Services edit

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Fundraising Tech edit

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    • Had to rollback payments wiki cluster php7 and mw upgrade mid week due to problems with our newly introduced Content Security Policy
      • the CSP updates were blocking 3rd party 3dSecure iframe content for countries with 3dSecure enabled.
    • tech-ops working on a plan to handle the termination of debian jessie backporting (still using some jessie in prod)

Core Platform edit

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    • Organizing Q4 work on 2-week sprint schedule
    • Hired and welcomed Will Doran, Engineering Manager
    • Enterprise MediaWiki conference
    • Finish WikiPEG and tokenization
    • T198341 (remove usages of some db fields for MCR Schema migration)
    • T213893 (maintenance options bug affecting Semantic Mediawiki users)

Performance edit

Release Engineering edit

Research edit

Scoring Platform edit

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    • Fixing bugs in ORES extension
        • Special Contributions/OOJSUI in ORES extenions being worked on by Jon Robson

Search Platform edit

Security edit

Services edit

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Site Reliability Engineering edit

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    • SRE service operations would like input/help from Core Platform Team/Performance on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219279 (Some pages will become completely unreachable after PHP7 update due to Unicode changes)
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    • New quarter, new goals

TechCom edit

Wikidata edit

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German Technical Wishlist edit

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping edit

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