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Scrum of scrums/2021-03-24

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2021-03-24

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(meeting conflict with Product Platform Strategy overview)

Callouts

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Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback

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No updates

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iOS

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Editing, Parsing, Inuka, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Security,

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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Product

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Community Tech

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  • Thank yous:
    • Subbu and other parsoid team members for their help and support with several tasks
  • Updates:
    • We'll be wrapping up WS-Export work this week and move on full-time onto the OCR Improvements wish

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource/New_OCR_tool

Anti-Harassment Tools

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  • Thank yous:
    • Huge thanks to David Lynch for excellent work on SecurePoll, and helping mentor our new engineers
    • Thanks to everyone who has helped with onboarding the engineers
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    • No updates

Growth

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  • Thank yous:
    • SRE with their continued support with the link recommendation service
    • Search for their help with indexing pages with recommendations
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Android native app

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  • Updates: No big updates. Continuing our work w/ Platform Engineering Team on image recommendations - we're getting near the MVP launch date and cooperatively pruning the remaining desired API features.

Web

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    • No updates. We're continuing our work on the language switcher instrumentation and A/B test

Product Infrastructure

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Structured Data

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    • Wrapping up final work before MediaSearch goes default on Commons
    • Continuing to work on improved search profile
    • Continued discussions across teams regarding Structured Data Across Wikimedia (image recommendations API and structured content)

Abstract Wikipedia

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Language

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  • Blocked by: None.
  • Blocking: None.
  • Thank yous:
    • Alexandros Kosiaris for cluster upgrades and for T278141 help.
  • Updates:
    • No major updates deployed in Section Translation this week.
    • MassMessage remote wiki delivery was briefly broken. Now fixed.
    • Working on new translation variable syntax for better Parsoid support.
    • There is now a limit how big translatable pages can be moved. Working on a script to move manually pages that are too big.
    • Improving ULS language selector dialog positioning (for Web team).
    • Translatable templates are usable on translatable pages with the normal syntax for transclusion. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47096)

Library

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    • Started work on making library partner's descriptions translatable
    • Getting first mock-ups of the Library redesign. They look great and we look forward to implementing them!

Vue.js

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    • Onboarding our new program manager!
    • Planning for the experimental shared internal component library, both on the design front and the development side

Technology

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Analytics

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    • mw server replacements in codfw proceeding
    • Eqiad kubernetes cluster upgraded, reinitialized and fully repooled. Some Job backlog was created, it's being served though.

Fundraising Tech

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Engineering Productivity

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Quality and Test Engineering

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Release Engineering

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Search Platform

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Site Reliability Engineering

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WMDE Technical Wishes

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  • Thank yous: To WMF Analytics, especially MForns and AOtto for the code review, feedback, and many deployments on our behalf.
  • Updates:
    • Currently working on the Kartographer map extension throughout prototyping week, in order to enable it on dewiki we will need to fix a bug with how map overlay content is linked to page revision.
    • Two successful deployments today: enabling bracket matching for group0 wikis and wikitech, and an update to syntax highlighting colors everywhere.

Cross-cutting

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    • None?
  • Thank yous:
    • Daimona for their continued work on phan tooling.
    • Antoine from RelEng for support on the stretch -> buster CI migration.
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