Wikimedia Technology/Goals/2019-20 Q1

Technology Department Team Goals and Status for Q1 FY19/20 in support of the  Medium Term Plan (MTP) Priorities and Annual Plan for FY19/20



Technical Engagement
Team Manager: Birgit Müller
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Dependencies on: Electrike Phanpy Cascoon and Professor Elm Pidgeot

 Status 
 * July 2019 - Mewtwo Strikes Back...
 * August 2019 -
 * September 2019 -



Fundraising Tech
Team Manager: Erika Bjune
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Dependencies on: Electrike Phanpy Cascoon and Professor Elm Pidgeot

 Status 
 * July 2019 - Mewtwo Strikes Back...
 * August 2019 -
 * September 2019 -



Research
Team Manager: Leila Zia
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Dependencies on: Electrike Phanpy Cascoon and Professor Elm Pidgeot

 Status 
 * July 2019 - Mewtwo Strikes Back...
 * August 2019 -
 * September 2019 -



Security
Team Manager: John Bennett
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Dependencies on: Electrike Phanpy Cascoon and Professor Elm Pidgeot

 Status 
 * July 2019 - Mewtwo Strikes Back...
 * August 2019 -
 * September 2019 -



Core Platform
Team Manager: Corey Floyd
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Dependencies on: Electrike Phanpy Cascoon and Professor Elm Pidgeot

 Status 
 * July 2019 - Mewtwo Strikes Back...
 * August 2019 -
 * September 2019 -



Analytics
Team Manager: Nuria Ruiz


 * Make easier to understand the history of all Wikimedia projects
 * Release Public Edit Data Lake Dataset in JSON/CSV or mysql dump format


 * Make easier to understand how Commons media is used across our projects.
 * Work starting on mediarequest API.


 * Increase Data Quality
 * Enthrophy-based alarms for data issues


 * Increase Data Privacy and Security
 * Make kerberos infra prod ready.


 * Modern Event Platform
 * * Continue moving events from job queue to event gate main.
 * * Development work for kafka connect
 * * Schema Repository CI for convention and backwards compatibility enforcement


 * Operational Excellence. Increase Resilience of Systems
 * * New zookeeper cluster for tier-2
 * Operational Excellence. Reduce Operational Load by Phasing Out Legacy Systems
 * * Sunset MySQL data store for eventlogging.

 Status 
 * July 2019 -
 * September 2019 -



Search Platform
Team Manager: Guillaume Lederrey
 * - Reduce complexity of the platform: Reduce technical debt and increase automation to reduce workload and make it easier to add new search features
 * Refactor query highlighting to make it extensible by other extensions
 * Refactor Mjolnir jobs into separate smaller jobs
 * - Core work: Maintain CirrusSearch and the Search API and WDQS
 * Core maintenance work (always )
 * Improve WDQS updater performances by writing custom code for updates
 * Full data reimport for WDQS to enable optimizations that were done last quarter
 * Work through the backlog of bugs and performance improvements for WDQS with our contractor
 * Start the hiring process for a new WDQS Engineer
 * Hardware renewal: replace elastic1017-1031
 * - Continue to identify and enable machine learning and natural language processing techniques to improve the quality of search
 * "Did you mean" suggestions: deploy method0 to production
 * - Underserved communities benefit from search techniques that to date are only used on big wikis like machine learning–aided ranking, word embeddings or language specific analyzers: Language analysis / Phab work
 * Work on highest priority language tickets (Discovery Search board / Language Stuff—always )
 * - Structured Data on Commons support (as needed)
 * RDF export
 * Address the indexing issues of MediaInfo (labels vs descriptions)

Dependencies on: RDF export: WMDE / Wikidata, Hardware renewal: DC Ops, MediaInfo indexing: SDoC

 Status 
 * July 2019 - —> (to be discussed)
 * August 2019 -
 * September 2019 -



Scoring Platform
Team Manager: Aaron Halfaker
 * - Build out the Jade API to support user-actions
 * - Build/improve models in response to community demand
 * - Support operations infrastructure improvements (k8s, redis SPOF)

Dependencies on: SRE

 Status 
 * July 2019 -.
 * August 2019 -
 * September 2019 -



Release Engineering
Team Manager: Greg Grossmeier
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Dependencies on: Electrike Phanpy Cascoon and Professor Elm Pidgeot

 Status 
 * July 2019 - Mewtwo Strikes Back...
 * August 2019 -
 * September 2019 -



Performance
Team Manager: Kate Chapman
 * - Support AbuseFilterCachingParser deployment. T156095
 * - Figure out the right store to use for the main stash (dynamo? mcrouter?). T212129
 * - Add Grafana dashboard for WANObjectCache stats. T197849
 * - Support Parsing Team with performance insights on Parsoid-php roll out.
 * - Write two performance topic blog posts.
 * - Line up interested speakers for a FOSDEM Web Performance devroom proposal.
 * - [Ongoing] Support and maintenance of MediaWiki's object caching and data access components.
 * - [Ongoing] Support and maintenance of WebPageTest and synthetic testing infrastructure.
 * - [Ongoing] Support and maintenance of MediaWiki's ResourceLoader.
 * - [Ongoing] Support and maintenance of Fresnel.

Dependencies on: SRE, CPT, Parsing

 Status 
 * July 2019 -
 * August 2019 -
 * September 2019 -



Site Reliability Engineering
Team Managers: Mark Bergsma and Faidon Liambotis
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Dependencies on: Electrike Phanpy Cascoon and Professor Elm Pidgeot

 Status 
 * July 2019 - Mewtwo Strikes Back...
 * August 2019 -
 * September 2019 -