Wikimedia Features engineering/Notes/2011-W51

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Features team meeting
Time

11:00 - 11:30 PST

Place #wikimedia-dev connect

Parser / Visual editor[edit]

Trevor

Last week:

  • Released VisualEditorSandbox on MediaWiki.org
  • Did followup fixes based on community feedback

This week:

  • Vacation

Blockers:

Roan

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Inez

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Brion

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Gabriel

Last week:

  • Created DOMConverter (HTML DOM -> WikiDOM) and tweaked that with feedback from Inez; was used a few hours later by the LocalWiki people for their Visual Editor integration test
  • A few tokenizer fixes, and parsed
  • Started work on template expansion

This week:

Blockers:

Neil

Last week:

  • Updated feedback, related libs, to support VisualEditor
  • Refactored & moved a lot of new JS libraries from UW into core, long overdue anyway, to support VisualEditor feedback
  • Deployed VisualEditor
  • Deployed VisualEditor fixes
  • Got Gabriel W's parser working with Node.js locally
  • Some interviewing for QA lead

This week:

  • Working on roundtripping VisualEditor to mediawiki articles, and/or adding a new serialization to VisualEditor
  • Make some fixes to UW, deploy before Xmas freeze.

Blockers:

Article feedback[edit]

Dario

Last week:

  • Supervised the development of hand-coding tool
  • Helped with finalization, testing and deployment of AFT5

This week:

  • Monitor quality/volume of data collected
  • Toolbar dashboard for AFT5
  • Help coordinate hand-coding

Blockers:

  • None

Feedback Dashboard[edit]

RobM

Last week:

  • Change collapse & expand arrows from ascii to images
  • Browser compatibility enhancements / fix moodbar invitation (ie6/ie7)
  • Sprint 3 Prototype Testing & Deployment

This week:

  • Rework MoodBar email config / prompting
  • for FIXME (remove asynchronous config on load)
  • Consistency changes, changing icons across moodbar + feedback dashboard

Blockers:

Benny

Last week:

  • Deployed spring 3 change to production
  • Added html email support for feedback response
  • Added "My Answer" filter to feedback dashboard

This week:

  • Add clicking tracking to email?
  • Test and deploy 'Mark as Helpful' for feedback response

Blockers:

Dario

Last week:

  • Started review of data/metrics plan and made first recommendations for clicktracking to email notifications
  • Uploaded FeedbackDashboard dashboard on toolserver: http://toolserver.org/~dartar/fd/

This week:

  • Iterate on FeedbackDashboard dashboard

Blockers:

Mark As Helpful[edit]

RobM

Last week:

  • Create base extension files and begin development

This week:

  • Create core Javascript module for hooking MarkAsHelpful elements into talk page
  • Create actions for calling new API ( marking / unmarking / loading mah items )
  • Create base styling
  • Testing / Deployment
Benny

Last week:

  • Started implementation on 'Mark As Helpful'

This week:

  • Create 2 two APIs for 'mark as helpful'
  • Test and Deploy 'mark as helpful'
  • Integration of 'mark as helpful' to moodbar

New Article Creation/New Page Patrol[edit]

Ian

Last week:

  • Worked on concurrency control backend for pagetriage/fbdashboard
  • NPP survey legal agreement

This week:

  • (hopefully) starting npp survey

Blockers:

UploadWizard[edit]

Neil

Last week:

  • Pushed some changes to legal code, refactored lots of libs and moved to core (see VisualEditor)

This week:

  • Seem to have a regression/bug with custom license handling; will fix

Blockers:

Ian

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Jeroen

Last week:

  • Bugfixes

This week:

  • Bugfixes

Blockers:

  • None

TimedMediaHandler[edit]

Ian & Neil

Last week:

  • Reviewed transcoder, some small bugfixes
  • Met to discuss platform eng. impact

This week:

  • Working on test plan

Blockers:

MDale

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ResourceLoader 2.0[edit]

Roan

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Timo

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Wikipedia Education Program[edit]

Jeroen

Last week:

This week:

  • Workin on Education Program extension.
  • Call with Frank scheduled for tomorrow to review design spec

Blockers:

  • None so far

Internationalization and localization tools[edit]

Siebrand, Santhosh, Niklas, Amir, Gerard

Last week:

  • WebFonts post-deployment bugs.
  • Installed the Translate extension on mediawiki.org to enable documentation translation

This week:

  • Translate extension improvements:
    • fuller message review system integration
    • fuller logging
  • starting to think about user-level documentation localization
  • starting to think about generic ways of gathering feedback about features

Blockers:

  • tighter cooperation with the Visual Editor is needed ASAP.

Other notes...[edit]

Dario

Last week:

  • Post-mortem of Berkman incident with community members + RCom, work with Timo on the changes requested by Legal + community members
  • Review of 4 requests of access to private data with Legal
  • Review of WikiData with WMDE
  • Met with team of researchers at Stanford/Yahoo Research doing Wikipedia research (gender, editor demographics, Article Feedback data) and planned micro-collaborations + brown bag with full Stanford team in January
  • Supported collaboration between fundraiser team and AllOurIdeas to crowdsource the design of the banner, project launched yesterday: http://www.allourideas.org/wikipedia-banner-challenge

This week

  • RCom meeting to discuss handling of subject recruitment requests
  • Drafting plans for mobile experiments with Phil
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