Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2017-05-08

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May 8, 2017

Previous Retrospective Actions

• [DMITRY] to send out notes/docs on reading lists / collections planning [OBSOLETE]
• [COREY] to put together the straw man of API & response format for the reading lists no later than Wed morning [DONE]

Significant Events

• Stephen is moving to Memphis 🎉++ 
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvliMzAFWHM
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIrxyAY1WBk
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGEFm2MrNyQ
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzJ7CO6QriI
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrbPlr4Wskc

• Rita is back (yay)+🌴
• Enabling plaform backups (soon)+💥

Learned

• Math formulas in MediaWiki / MathML+
• Workings of wikipedia-page-library+
• Deep-dive into webkit's internals (svg support, XMLHttpRequest logic)
• if an artist is not in the Top 30K articles on Wikipedia, probably not worth buying at a cruise art auction <-> Usefulness of offline Wiki for non-NR

Loved

• Periodic CI works! (Thanks Michael!)
• #cruiselyfe
• Tasking of page library

Questions

• Citolytics a/b test?
• How are we feeling about share-a-fact these days? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Action Items 

• [NATALIA] to add a design backlog task to improve Share-a-fact