Web Team/Bookmarks

Our mission: "Disseminate educational content under a free license or in the public domain effectively and globally."Working with us The Web team focuses on engineering efforts around the experiences for readers of the websites for the various Wikimedia projects.

This page and its subpages are intended to document the team, its various roles/responsibilities, and generally be a repository of articles of team documentation.

Office Hours
Please note: these are currently intended for internal WMF staff.

You can join our online Meet room meet.google.com/zpj-gmkx-cau. Our goal is to openly discuss our work, and to answer any of your questions. We would like to invite anyone interested in our projects, current and future work, and in particular Desktop Improvements.

Please plan on attending if:


 * You have questions for our team
 * You would like to collaborate with us more closely in the future
 * You want to discuss plans and strategies for our desktop and mobile sites in the future

If you plan on attending, feel free to add your notes to the agenda - this will help us prepare for your questions ahead of time. We are planning to host office hours twice a quarter.

Projects

 * A list of our current and ongoing projects
 * Daily chores
 * Phabricator backlog

Process

 * Roles and responsibilities
 * Software component responsibilities
 * Phabricator information (boards & workflows)
 * Deployment procedures/guidelines
 * Story estimation
 * Chore results
 * What to do with an UBN
 * Quantitative testing
 * How do I become a reading web volunteer?
 * Submitting a request for the team

Meeting minutes

 * Quarterly review meetings:
 * April 2015
 * January 2015
 * earlier
 * Retrospectives

Communication

 * Bluejeans (videoconferencing) @ https://bluejeans.com/463688296//webrtc
 * Should Bluejeans fail, we use Google Meet.


 * Team IRC Channel
 * Going on phabricator vacation

Onboarding

 * Newbies guide
 * Mobile beta


 * Team norms
 * Team values
 * Various wikis of Wikimedia, and how to log in to them
 * Reading/Component_responsibility

Onboarding for developers

 * What is MobileFrontend and Minerva ?
 * Reading/Web/Getting setup with code review
 * Working with Vagrant
 * Performance
 * Development cycle
 * Coding conventions documentation (style, organization, commit message guidelines, etc)
 * Caching - see T124954 (Varnish) and ResourceLoader (client code).


 * QA - how to use browser tests
 * Wikimedia Design Style Guide

Community engagement

 * Recommendations for mobile friendly articles
 * Working with editors to get templates fixed
 * Graphs of phabricator/irc usage

Software development and testing

 * QA process
 * Articles we test on
 * Devices and browsers we test on
 * Reading/Web/QUnit test guidelines
 * Reading/Web/Working with legacy code
 * List of server log files known to Wikipedia project
 * Readers/Web/Building features with cached HTML in mind

Starting a new project

 * Setting up instances on wmflabs.org
 * Setting up a Gerrit repository (general notes)
 * Experience notes & followup
 * Review queue - for getting new projects in production
 * Hosting prototypes

Continuous Integration

 * Entry points
 * Popups Gerrit autorebase tool

Deploying, debugging and releasing

 * Pushing production code from beta to stable
 * JavaScript client error alerts
 * Setting up alerts with grafana
 * Reading/Web/Setting up instances on wmflabs.org
 * Release process
 * How to deploy code
 * Deploy gotchas
 * SSH configuration notes
 * Requesting shell access
 * Video showing deployment procedures
 * Reading/Web/Debugging with WebClientError
 * Running maintenance scripts

Analytics

 * EventLogging
 * Accessing Hive and accessing page view data
 * Access data about our projects (page views, editors, edits, change in bytes) using wikistats
 * Need to know what % of traffic is Opera Mini? Look no further - Turnilo or User agent breakdowns.
 * Using Turnilo

Other

 * Reporting an incident
 * Sunsetting a project (killing a project)
 * Icinga (network monitoring)

Research

 * Prototyping


 * Mexico Readers Research

Releases
Release timeline

Archived Notes

 * Reading Web 2015 - Q1 Feature stabilization
 * Q1 Planning, 2014-2015