Wikimedia Features engineering/Notes/2012-W07

Features team meeting
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Amir

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Andrew

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Arthur

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Benny

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  • Working with Article Creation Workflow
  • Bug fix for category tree

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  • Contine with Article Creation Workflow implementation
  • Deployment and Cross Browser Testing
  • Start with New Page Triage

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Brandon

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Brion

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Dario

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  • On vacation until Wednesday, returned to the office on Thursday
  • Mostly caught up with my backlog from previous weekReviewed status of AFT data collection, filed issue with incorrect tracking of CTA data
  • Met with Yvonne Kammerer re: possible areas of interest for eye-tracking/usability research

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  • Review metrics/clicktracking specs for Article Creation w/ Benny/Howie/Andrew
  • Follow deployment of patch to clicktracking for AFT Edit CTA and run sanity check on data after fix is pushed
  • Collect use cases for revtagging
  • Recommendation for overhaul of clicktracking system
  • Goals/research plan for new contractor (Giovanni)
  • Review with AFT team research report from phase 1 and discuss next phase and timeline
  • Update on feedback policy w/ Legal
  • RCom work

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Gabriel

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  • Added support for preprocessor stuff in attribute keys and values
  • Continued work on parser functions, tokenizer etc- 238 tests passing currently
  • Reorganized Future and related pages, named parser project as Parsoid (suggestion by Amgine); updated documentation in general
  • More technical DOM discussion, and a lot of non-technical activity on wikitext

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  • Helped Audrey Tang find her way around the code, detailed on-wiki todo
  • Bug fixing- trying to survive template-heavy (especially cite) pages
  • Start microdata implementation, add more rt data etc

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Gerard

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Howie

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Jeremy

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  • Working on CiviCRM recurring credit card payments.
  • Gave a UnitTest tutorial to OmniTI for AFT
  • Reviewing applicants for backend developer in fundraising

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  • Working on CiviCRM recurring credit card payments.
  • Working on LastModified Extension fixme
  • Adding features to UnitTest extension
  • Reviewing applicants for backend developer in fundraising

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Jeroen

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Kaldari

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Katie

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Last week:

  • Continued work on auditing tools
  • Did code review for Jeremy's work on the globalcollect recurring module for Drupal / CiviCRM
  • Reviewed many resumes of potential candidates for the fundraiser dev position

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  • Start phone screens and interviews for the new fundraiser dev
  • Continued work on the auditing tools in Drupal / CiviCRM
  • More code review and deployments to the fundraising Drupal / CiviCRM instance as-needed

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Niklas

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  • new translation memory is progressing, enabled on twn, and I've started playing with labs to test in environment closer to wmf cluster, also blogged about it
  • Some UI work Special:Translate - comments welcome

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Roan

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RobM

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  • VisualEditor:
    • Editable Surface IME prototyping

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    • Various experiments with ES IME modes
    • Create a cross browser IME prototype

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Santhosh

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Siebrand

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Timo

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  • (Unavailable this week due to college)

Trevor

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  • Met with CE team
  • Prototyped concept for floating

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  • Implement floating

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  • Brainpower shortages