Wikimedia Services/Meetings/2015-02-03-MA

Phab tasks

• phab:T87824
• phab:T87807

Tentative agenda

• Short intro + status: RESTBase && MA
• MA current data- and workflow
• Mobile service brainstorm

Action items

• Wait for RESTBase to be deployed [Owner: All of us, but especially Monte]
• Figure out exactly the data and workflow that we'd like to have [Owner: Adam/Dmitry]
• Design the API that would ideally serve the mobile app's use cases [Owner: Adam/Dmitry, with Services Team]

Notes

• Would be a benefit to share transforms between IOS & Android
• Want generally uniform rendering
• CSS, JS rendering on mobile
• Currently transforms done in JS on DOM, can reuse if using JS environment like node
• Ownership: MA owns transforms, services helps to wrap in service
• section loading: would be good to preserve lead section / rest split
  • maybe not with SPDY
• Unversioned/changing APIs are a major source of client-side breakage

Wishlist for service

• image metadata for all images in article
• Arbitrary Wikidata properties (not just description)
  • May be possible since RESTBase can cache the result of the query
  • We need to make sure not to fall into the trap of not pushing people to build scalable APIs