Scrum of scrums/2020-10-07

2020-10-07

Callouts

• SRE: MediaWiki DC switchback to eqiad will be Tuesday, October 27. Services switchback will be either the following day or the day before, TBD.

Product

Structured Data

• Updates: "beta" milestone for mediasearch

Abstract Wikipedia

• Updates:
  • Voting in the community naming contest for what to call the central wiki of functions continues for the rest of the month.
  • Added Special:CreateZObject entry point, re-using the Vue rich editing interface, which has had some colour added for easier visibility.
  • Continuing work on using ZType data to enforce structure when editing ZObjects.
  • Discussing how to switch the Vue editing interface into a hybrid view/edit model.

Technology

Site Reliability Engineering

• Updates:
  • S5 replication broke on some hosts https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263842, IR draft https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200925-s5-replication-lag
  • MediaWiki DC switchback to eqiad will be Tuesday, October 27. Services switchback will be either the following day or the day before
  • Service 2 Service communication now all encrypted
  • Digicert unified cert renewal still in purchasing, we’re using LetsEncrypt at all edges for now, with Globalsign also available as a backup if necessary.