Scrum of scrums/2021-02-03

2021-02-03 edit

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Web, Product Infrastructure, Parsing, Language, Inuka, Analytics, Cloud Services, Fundraising Tech, Platform, Security

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Anti-Harassment Tools edit

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    • 3rd new engineer started - thanks to Dayllan Maza for helping with code review while new engineers onboard
    • Thanks to DBAs and Amir Sarabadani for helping with SecurePoll tables
    • Thanks to Martin Urbanec and James Forrester for setting up beta environment for votewiki

Editing edit

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Growth edit

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    • Working on link recommendations and on making the mwaddlink service production-ready. phab:T252822

iOS native app edit

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    • New version out yesterday! Investigated OAuth - endpoints aren't currently adaptable for a variety of reasons.

Android native app edit

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    • New version out yesterday with watchlists and native talk pages!

Structured Data edit

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    • MediaSearch: more feature work and bug fixes, discussing approach for making MediaSearch the default search interface on Commons
    • Image recommendations: investigating how to compare and evaluate search algorithm results
    • Working with the Architecture team on plans for implementing infrastructure changes related to the Structured Data Across Wikimedia program

Abstract Wikipedia edit

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    • Moving on to phase gamma, finally!
    • Working on getting the back-end executor service runnable.
    • Huge thanks to Daniel and others from the Platform team for sharing their plans for how the core of MediaWiki's Content hierarchy is going, and advice on our code on how to be more testable.
    • Community suggestions for the logo concept for Wikifunctions continues.

Library edit

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    • Set up hosted versions of GlitchTip for Wikilink and The Wikipedia Library
    • Bug fixes for The Wikipedia Library
    • Onboarding new designer

Vue.js edit

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    • Developing processes and timelines
    • Discussing Vue, the new component library, and related infrastructure with various stakeholders (other Product teams, WMDE, RelEng, Community Relations...)
    • Adapting MediaWiki's ES5 minifier to work with ES6
    • Experimenting with alternatives to webpack (namely Vite, which uses Rollup)
    • Reviewing existing Vue components within MediaWiki projects and starting to form a plan for building out components in WVUI

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Performance edit

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    • RUM (field) performance data for the past couple of weeks is tainted due to partial outages during the Event Platform migration

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    • Working on kubernetes logging for mediawiki with observability.

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