Scrum of scrums/2020-11-18

Scrum of scrums edit

  • Update the (etherpad) before 16:00 UTC each Wednesday.
  • Keep your team's notes as short as possible.
  • If you're are blocking a team or blocked by a team, copy/paste the note to their team section too, so they see it.

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2020-11-18 edit

Callouts edit

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Update_to_ICU_Unicode_library
    • Sporadic and weird issues with Italian ISPs continue. SRE is aware and working on them. contact cdanis@ if you have more debugging data to share
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    • No Train next week
    • No deploys next week Wed-Friday

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping edit

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    • This is a reboot of the synchronous Scrum of Scrums weekly meeting. We want to see if the discipline of having a regularly scheduled brief weekly meeting helps to revive the practice of all teams filling out the notes. If you have attended the meeting in the past and have ideas for ways that we could improve it, then please share them with Grace and Deb.
    • This weekly facilitated meeting will start on Wednesday 2020-11-18 through 2020-12-23 and we will evaluate if convening a meeting leads to more comprehensive notes.

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  • Updates: The Community Wishlist Survey is now live and that's gonna be our main focus for the following 6 weeks

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  • Updates: Main focus is on finishing the work on the Vue search study. A VueTaskForce is meeting this week.

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Structured Data edit

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    • Commons Media Search: continuing to add features and make UI improvements, exploring some potential methods for using wikidata to improve search results (e.g. traversing entity trees, using aliases)
    • Media matching: in discussions with other teams to determine how this project overlaps with others

Abstract Wikipedia edit

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    • The community contest for the name of the central wiki of functions has now closed, and the result is being reviewed with Legal and Comms. Our thanks to all who voted.
    • Continuing work on using ZType data to enforce structure when editing ZObjects.
    • Huge thanks to Daimona and DannyS712 for helping with a Phan issue blocking us from merging code T268055


Parsing edit

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    • This is a followup on a SoS update from a few weeks back. We would like Parsoid clients ( VisualEditor, ContentTranslation, StructuredDiscussion, MCS/PCS ) to act on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266143 sooner than later. This should likely be a minor tweak in client code. We need confirmation that clients can handle this switch before we can make progress on making that change in Parsoid. Either leave a note on that phab task once you are done, or create a subtask and resolve it.
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Language edit

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    • Web. Should be unblocked this week.
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    • T264756 Working on technical implementation plan for translatable modules. Will make it public for feedback soon.
    • T254481 Doing final tests on "Support sending TechNews using Special:MassMessage"
    • T182433 Developing "Strong synchonization" for translatewiki.net which is a prerequisite for fully automated translation exports
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    • Polishing section translation MVP

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      • Addressing usability study feedback (colours, icons, copy, ...)
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    • Wikipedia Preview
      • Oozie job for data analysis
      • Image focus mode
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Library edit

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  • Updates: Fixed a bug in Wikipedia Library that denied some users access to the library bundle when they should've had it. Refactoring of Wikilinks UI underway to improve performance.

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Analytics edit

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    • Fix bug in pageview_complete dumps (replacement of pagecounts).

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