Wikimedia Features engineering/Notes/20111206

Features team meeting

Time	11:00 - 11:30 PDT / 20:00 - 20:30 CET
Place	#wikimedia-dev connect

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Parser / Visual editor

Trevor

Last week:

• Lots of bug fixing
• Context menus and major toolbar enhancements
• Some refactoring where needed

This week:

• Finish critical features for release next week
• Fix as many bugs as we can find

Blockers:

• Need moar human-power!

Roan

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Inez

Last week:

• Toolbar (text styles)

This week:

• Toolbar (tools: bullet, number, indent, outdent)
• Killing IE8 and IE9 bugs
• Finish critical features for next week release, testing
• Copy & paste functionality

Blockers:

• Currently can't commit insertion of /list, list which is important to get bullet and number buttons work - Trevor is working on fixing it

Brion

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Gabriel

Last week:

• Worked (with help from Hashar) on the parser test runner and the grammar. Went from 48 passing parser tests to 164 now.
• Wrote up https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Future/Parser_development, interacted with HTML parser upstream for bug fixes and tokenizer <> tree builder interface

This week:

• Continue to work on tests and grammar (see the todo)
• Try to actually look at generating WikiDom from HTML DOM

Blockers:

• None, but could use help to speed up the progress

Neil

Last week:

• Started undo/redo feature; refactored notions of transactions/states into a history log. Undid some of that refactor to make early Dec deadline; refactored AGAIN to a compromise concept (w/Trevor)

This week:

• Finish undo/redo feature

Blockers:

• None at the moment

Article feedback

Dario

Last week:

• worked on the qualitative coding tool with Oliver/Aaron

This week:

• finalize requirements for article sampling
• update research plan and schedule to include qual analysis
• work on use cases for edit tagging

Blockers:

• None

Roan

Last week:

• Answered a few e-mails, haven't been needed beyond that

This week:

• Have to CR the AFTv5 code by Dec 5

Blockers:

• Low availability, see bottom

MoodBar

RobM

Last week:

• None

This week:

• Added Feedback handling for blocked user
• Gathering user info to determine email status
• Added templates to update user email address & request email confirmation
• Added Icons to Success & Error bubble
• Todo: Create MoodBar notification template
• TBD: customize html email

Blockers:

• None

Benny

Last week:

This week:

• Creating the API for user to set profile email if email is not set and send out verification if email is not verified

Blockers:

• None

Neil

Last week:

• I'm not on this team

This week:

• No really, I'm not

Blockers:

• It was just that one time

Feedback Dashboard

RobM

Last week:

• Phase2 additions: Allow wikitext and show preview prior to sending response
• Add ajax response status icons & new internationalization text
• Deployed phase2 changes Wednesday

This week:

• Added feedback response handling for blocked user
• TBD

Blockers:

• None

Benny

Last week:

• Deployed the follow-up change for feedback dashobard response API
• Allow wikitext in feedback response and update the talk page section title for auto-generated talk page text
• Display the latest user reply for feedback in dashboard page and add link to talk page from feedback page
• Research on html emails/custom emails for feedback response

This week:

• Add moodbar stats on dashboard page.
• Add edit summary to feedback response
• TBD: html email or custom email for user response

Blockers:

• None

Dario

Last week:

• Started coding feedback response data dashboard on Toolserver

This week:

• release it

New Article Creation/New Page Patrol

Howie

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Dario

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Ian

Last week:

• Re-started work on PageTriage extension

This week:

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UploadWizard

Neil

Last week:

• Reviewed various bugfixes by Jeroen
• Worked on Categories bugs (git stashed locally, not committed)
• Worked on preview button for licenses (git stashed locally, not committed)

This week:

• Cleanups from that

Blockers:

Ian

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Jeroen

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TimedMediaHandler

Ian & Neil

Last week:

• Finished review of TMH (PHP and JS) except for transcoding

This week:

• Review transcoding parts of TMH, review any new commits related to previous reviews.
• Preliminary planning for testing in production?

Blockers:

Brandon's Little Corner of Happy Fun Fun

• Fundraiser fallout (interviews, etc.)
• Many discussions about Moodbar/Feedback dashboard, plus enhancements on that.
• Discussing revamping the notification system
• Working on Narayam design stuff but haven't gotten very much work done over what happened in India
• Exploring post-edit appreciation dialogs
• Consulting on ArticleFeedback 5
• Minor consulting on San Francisco hackathon

Internationalization and localization tools

Brandon

• Working on getting a page up to discuss the work done in India about this but haven't had more than a half day of time to work on it and it needs some work.

• Making Narayam (keyboard maps) work in old skins.
• Refactoring Narayam to allow better code reuse: keymaps can inherit rules from other keymaps.
• Keyboard maps for all official languages of India created.
• WebFonts updated and stabilized. Some attempts to work on better font hinting. Fonts now have version number.
• Some team members were ill.

ResourceLoader 2.0

Roan

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Timo

Last week:

• Fix layout bugs in Gadget manager
• Code review
• Testing gadgets and migration on prototype

This week:

Blockers:

Personal image filter

On hold

Coding Challenges

Jeroen

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Other notes...

Dario

Last week:

• continuous support of Harvard study with Timo, Legal team + external research team
  • finalized legal agreement and banner design
  • worked on managing major schedule conflict with editor survey campaign
• Various RCom tasks
  • launched public data/research infrastructure consultation: bit.ly/WikimediaData
  • first major review of EPIC/Oxford study since its launch
  • initiated collaboration between fundraiser team and photocracy/allourideas team
  • reviewed with Legal and Global Dev various requests for access to private data

This week:

• launch banner campaign for Harvard study

Blockers:

• legal review of agreement on Harvard's end
• technical issues with Harvard's banner

Roan

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