Multimedia/Standup notes/2018/September

2018-09-27
PL: what's going on with translatewiki???

Matthias
Not around - midwife info session
 * Working on search prototype feedback

Keegan

 * Meetings!
 * Posting the old revision thingy
 * Checking in on talk page posts

Mark

 * Meeting day was Meeting Day, shocking I know
 * Today: Hiring stuff (almost done with resumés!)

Pam

 * Finishing up the big Depicts clickable prototype

Ramsey

 * Meetings. 8 scheduled, perhaps 7-9 actually attended? We'll see!

Cormac

 * Still going on MCR ... there's something up with search, so digging into that

James

 * Helping out with more MW core stuff.
 * [PL] Thoughts about an SDC Engineering board (like the SDC design/docs one), to make things easier to find?

Amanda

 * Writing/reviewing grant report draft
 * Out tomorrow and Monday for moving! Still doing Q2 goal meeting, and y'all can still ping me

Cormac

 * BAD NEWS: we're not going to be able launch next week
 * Wikibase patch is proving problematic - quoting Daniel "we had to go back to the drawing board today" - best case scenario is now end of next week
 * I still have maybe another day's work left on it anyway

Mark

 * Meeting dayyyy
 * If (big if) I have any time, it'll probably be spent rounding up the remaining resumés in the queue...pretty close to being done with first round of review on that

Matthias

 * Worked on file page captions feedback
 * Looking into CirrusSearch support for filtering on media type

Pam

 * So many meetings
 * Passed on some feedback to Matthias about File Captions on FP (Labs)
 * Finished updating Depcits designs... now working on explanatory text for designs
 * Made some connections with the Creative Commons folks (Dir of Product & Research and their Data Engineer) - could prove useful for the reuse scenario, as well as when SDC is done & we can be one of their collections
 * WMDE question of standardization of interfaces -> parking lot update

Keegan

 * Posting about old page revisions today
 * Keeping an eye on the other things
 * Emails
 * Meetings
 * Normal Wednesday

Ramsey

 * yesterday: a number of interrupts to answer and ask questions but still got a decent amount of 3-5 year planning stuff done
 * today: more writing, will certainly get to summarizing Miriam's machine learning stuff
 * lots of meetings, but not as many as tomorrow!

James

 * Yesterday: Review/backport/deploy of an unbreak-now UW patch from Matthias, some MCR-related core code review
 * Today: More stuff, probably. Trying not to get in the way of the big beasts. :-)

Mark

 * Yesterday: Mostly just catch-up
 * Today: Resumé review and more catch-up
 * A few meetings
 * PL: What news from the front?

Pam

 * Almost finished updating designs for stakeholder review
 * Next will be working on explanatory text for the designs as a guide
 * Goal is to get a link out today to the GLAM team
 * Writing up some stuff for Nirzar/Rita re: statement designs

Ramsey

 * 3-5 year planning still
 * Light meeting day, but will probably have a number of interrupts

Cormac

 * still working on MCR, haven't heard from Adam since noon-ish ... 2 main things left seem to be
 * showing an empty MediaInfo slot on the File page so it can be edited
 * find a cleaner way of showing the 'structured data' header (currently a very ugly hack)

Matthias

 * File page thing on labs
 * Working on Pam's feedback on search proto
 * Checking UploadWizard license thingy

Matthias

 * Did some work on Cormac's patch - ready to be merged, I think
 * Fixed some UW license selection issues

Mark

 * Almost out of the resumé firehose I think.
 * More email catch-up today, hopefully not too much
 * How do we look on our various bits of work pre-launch?

James

 * A bit of code review on Cormac's patch. think it's ready to land (with a design follow-up question -> Pam)

Ramsey

 * currently stuck in a WMDE meeting
 * meeting day, part 1 this week
 * more 3-5 year planning documentation
 * will try to review community consultations updates when I get a chance
 * will also try to summarize Mariam's feedback for machine-assisted depicts tagging

Pam

 * also in a meeting running over time with WMDE
 * been reviewing community consultations this morning
 * got good feedback on languages + Wikidata editor, will be sharing out
 * lots of meetings today

Keegan

 * Check up on the wikis
 * Start working on the old page revision communication plan

Cormac

 * MCR ... more or less there now, I think, need a Wikibase patch from Adam to make it all work

Amanda

 * Writing Wikibase NYC report back email
 * Writing stakeholder review group follow up email
 * Emailing re WMDE - WMF design chats

Mark PL

 * Will statements (i.e. more than captions) be accessible via the API as of right now?
 * Do we want them to?
 * If yes, should we document it?
 * If no, are we really sure we want them to?
 * What's blocking deployment still?
 * [MCR work]
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194729 got re-opened by Daniel, does that block us?

Keegan

 * Looking at the things we have up on the wikis: statements, SDC talk page, Wikidata discussions
 * Working on the draft Ramsey provided me about good coverage search

James

 * T198309 (Set testwiki MCR migration to write-both/read-new) getting deployed right now.
 * Next is T198558 (Set testwiki MCR migration to new-only), dependent on testing.
 * Wider MCR migration is scheduled for immediately after switch back to eqiad.

Pam

 * Made adjustments to the depicts statements designs (clarifying when/how artwork shows referred q items)
 * Will spend today updating designs based on our design:dev convo
 * Need to catch up on discussions...
 * Have a question about the OOUI-ification of file page

Matthias

 * Updated labs (history now working)
 * Working on search proto feedback

Mark

 * Battling the inbox today
 * More meetings
 * Tomorrow: Probably more emails + resumé review

Ramsey

 * meeting heavy day
 * people asking me questions
 * if I have spare time/energy it'll be spent on 3-5 year planning

Cormac

 * patch for Mediainfo relevant to MCR ... but for some reason wikibase tests fail because of it, waiting to here back from WMDE
 * working on review comments for File page

Matthias

 * CR Cormac's patch
 * CR Daniel's patch

Keegan

 * Posting on Commons about property creation
 * Posting about search good coverage?
 * Updating SDC portal for Amanda

Pam

 * Sent out email yesterday re: modal design & functionality in advance of our design:dev chat tomorrow
 * Refining the visual treatment of the referred artwork depicted items (to separate them from the M-item depicted items)
 * Need to send out SDC update
 * Afternoon doc appt, time is blocked off on calendar

Mark

 * Got through a fair bit of resumé review, going to take a break from that...
 * Meeting day as per usual
 * Need to catch up on e-mail as well, so that's my in-between-meetings activity

Ramsey

 * A few meetings
 * Quick chat about Daniel's patch
 * 3-5 year planning madness
 * Following up on phab tickets

Cormac

 * have gotten a good bit more feedback on the File page patch, will address it tomorrow
 * progressing with MCR

James

 * More reviewing of Cormac's patch.
 * Trivial linting fiddles.
 * Helping review some performance-related patches for 3D and [M]MV from Ed and Timo.

Mark

 * omgwtfbbq resumés
 * Yesterday went not great - afternoon shot

Matthias

 * MediaInfo history fixed
 * Answered EventLogging
 * CR Cormac's patch
 * Following restore discussion

James

 * Initial review of Cormac's patch for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202287 – it works!

Pam

 * Extremely productive meeting with Ramsey yesterday, so making some edits to the modal and sending an email out to the team ahead of our design-dev chat
 * Making some other edits to the artwork scenario bit for visual clarity

Ramsey

 * light meeting day today
 * 3-5 year planning document awesome special time

Cormac

 * revised File page patch based on some comments
 * still figuring my way around on MCR

James

 * Last MCR phase 2 patches going out tomorrow in the train (hopefully).
 * Non-MCR DB refactor patches (Actor, Comment) both moving forward; should have no effect on SDC. ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/460916 )

Matthias

 * Restore revisions
 * CR Cormac's patch
 * Follow up on MediaInfo history page patch
 * Add isempty support in search proto

Pam

 * Made heaps of progress on the entire Depicts-Artwork-Editing WD on Commons flow
 * Looking forward to going over the flow with Ramsey in our 1:1
 * Scattered meetings today

Mark

 * Not feeling 100% today, will see how the afternoon looks
 * Probably a lot of resumé review later today, I'm probably halfway through them at this point, but need to catch up

Keegan

 * Planning out captions release comms
 * Met with Sandra and Léa about property creation
 * Statements consultation

Amanda

 * SDC Weekly update update
 * Asking about QCi format
 * Getting ready for Wikibase NYC
 * At conf tomorrow through Fri, ping me for anything urgent

Ramsey

 * relatively few meetings today
 * head-down on writing white papers for 3-5 year planning
 * bugging people about talking to other people :)

Cormac

 * File page patch in review (mostly minor comments so far)
 * work on MCR has begun

Cormac

 * File page patch in review - had to add another patch for CI integration
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo/+/460025/
 * Tomorrow - catching up with stuff I've been neglecting, possible MCR (but defo MCR on Mon)

Pam

 * Missing stand-up due to conflicting meeting (see Cormac's email & my reply)
 * Making revisions to the modal's first screen (the item preview) per Nirzar's request
 * Thanks, Ramsey, for making this ticket (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204247), cannot wait to upload designs when I'm done
 * Very meetingful day :/

Keegan

 * Missing standup&retro, OoO for 1.5hrs, already had a couple meetings
 * More meetings
 * Statements consultation
 * I need to start planning the Captions release

Mark

 * Meeting day, round 2, fight!
 * Will try to get round to other stuff if I can - probably swamped with manager-y stuff later in the day.

Matthias

 * Fixed MediaInfo history action
 * Working on restoring revisions
 * CR Cormac's patch

Amanda

 * Q2 goals
 * Signing you up for a meeting with the Swedes NHB, Mr. Holmquist
 * Emailing folks re weekly SDC update update

Ramsey

 * so many meetings
 * 3-5 year planning outline, again, for review part 2 tomorrow
 * answering questions Miriam has about machine-aided depicts

w== 2018-09-12 ==

Cormac

 * Consolidated the File page patches into 1, and now I'm making minor edits to get it past CI, then it's ready for review
 * MCR tomorrow?!

Pam

 * Finishing up prepping designs in InVision for design review (will be sharing link out when ready)
 * Following the Structured License consultation discussion
 * Yesterday, per the consultation, discussed with Ramsey linking certain qualifiers out to their respective WD pages
 * Very meeting day today

Mark

 * Yesterday: Loads of resumés reviewed, but many more to come...
 * Today: Pretty much caught up on email, I think. Have some busywork to try to accomplish between meetings.
 * Will be AFK late afternoon.

Ramsey

 * Yesterday: Productive meeting with Smithsonian on 3D stuff. Talked mostly about metadata for their tools. Could be a vector for structured data or Wikibase
 * Also yesterday: following up on community consultations about various things
 * Also yesterday: syncing up with Mariam about machine learning stuff
 * Today: Decent number of meetings
 * 3-5 year planning stuff (this is gonna be a recurring theme for the next month)

Keegan

 * Meetings
 * Statements consultation
 * Email

Matthias

 * Restore revisions
 * MediaInfo history broken? Will look into that

James

 * Shepherding some MCR patches over the line. We might (jinx!) have just landed phase 2 in master.

Cormac
... still hoping to get it finished today (crosses fingerz)
 * File page still going. Revised first patch is in review. To do on the javascript patch
 * warnings when someone is approaching the limit of text allowed
 * handle error from backend when deleting

Pam

 * Still revising/prepping the artwork/editing WD designs for review
 * Spent time this morning updating attribution information on the design consultation files
 * A bit of a meetingful day

Mark

 * That was an extraordinarily long weekend, but we're back
 * Resumés are pouring in, so...that's probably my day
 * Once I dig myself out of that I'll try to deal with the rest of my email

Ramsey

 * Still working on 3-5 year planning docs, this time absorbing feedback and also giving feedback to others
 * Miriam added some comments on the machine learning doc. Will review those
 * Thinking about follow-up to the current Structured License conversation
 * Meeting with Smithsonian's digitization team about combining our plans for 3D file support

Amanda

 * Review pre-plans to work with WMSE
 * Review George's blog post and admin stuff
 * Update gantt chart with refined subchunks
 * Bothering Ramsey about Q2 goals

Cormac

 * not quite there yet on the File page :( Here's my to-do list
 * bug to do with deleting row for adding the caption in user's language if it doesn't exist
 * javascript warnings when text is too long (or almost too long)
 * refresh all languages on change language

Pam

 * Revising the artwork scenario/editing WD on Commons designs for a final round of review this week
 * Have my eye on the Statements consultation (lots of design comments...)

Ramsey

 * A bit of work for 3-5 year planning today, including review of the outline with Toby and co.
 * moving on to spec/requirements for remaining aspects of depicts
 * design chats with Pam

James

 * Planning to look at Cormac's WIP patch today.

Keegan

 * Check up statements consultation, have a reply or two from Ramsey I need to pass along from Friday + whatever else is new
 * Email
 * Other work
 * Submission for "Update: Structured Data on Commons" for Wikiconference NA was accepted

Matthias

 * Restore revisions
 * Vagrant issues

Amanda

 * Going to Wikibase user workshop in NYC Sept 17–22
 * Talking to GLAM folks about data round-tripping tools
 * Following-up with Keegan re. portal
 * Sending out the weekly update for SDC programme management

James

 * At the Core Platform/Audiences sync meeting, sorry.

Keegan

 * Advertising/socializing the statements consultation

Matthias

 * Working on revisions/restore

Pam

 * Presented artwork scenario to design team yesterday, got good feedback & will be sharing at design:dev chat
 * Uploaded structured licenses files to Commons
 * Replied to Matthias about search prototype (for things to be changed when it’s worked on next)
 * Now prepping for the design granularity meeting & updating the designs doc Amanda made
 * Tomorrow: revising artwork scenario

Cormac

 * File page work continuezzzzz ...

Mark

 * A few meetings, then hopefully CR, then tomorrow we start the hiring process

Ramsey

 * Thursday is always full of meetings for me
 * Yesterday, completed first draft of my 3-5 year planning outline
 * today: research on matching external concepts to Wikidata Q items, emails with other Product team members working on planning outlines
 * also today: reviewing job posting stuff for the Engineer role

Matthias

 * Updated search proto on labs
 * Start work on revisions/revert

Keegan

 * Posting the copyright and licensing consultation

Ramsey

 * Handful of meetings today
 * Really digging into 3-5 year planning position papers

James

 * I sketched out a top-level view of steps to deployment at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194750

Pam

 * Will be presenting "editing WD on Commons/Artwork scenario" at design review today: https://wikimedia.invisionapp.com/share/AZNJR6RTQXR
 * Search prototype - have feedback, am in the process of annotating screenshots for whenever it can be worked on again
 * Meetings!

Mark

 * Right, meeting day
 * Will attempt to make another round of task/patch glances later in the day

Cormac

 * File page work continues ...

Matthias

 * Search prototype

Mark

 * Nearly caught up on email in record time already, might be able to get into other more different email
 * Probably doing some task and patch review later in the afternoon as well
 * The Big Meeting later as well

Ramsey

 * finalizing/sending out deck for check-in meeting
 * reviewing Cormac's new search doc
 * working on outlines for Product team 3–5 year planning thing

Pam

 * Annotating the above designs of editing Wikidata on Commons [artwork scenario] for internal review
 * Will do a Design review of Search prototype this afternoon
 * Parking lot: What's the agenda/deck for today's stakeholder meeting?

Amanda

 * Tracking wapping up MCR
 * Identifying goals for licensing consultation
 * SDC stakeholder meeting
 * Share Magnus' doc with Multichill and TheDJ

James

 * Hi!
 * Looking around at how things are going on the MW/MCR side.
 * Currently on 5% time, ramping up to 80% at EOQ.

Matthias

 * Search prototype

Cormac

 * SDoC search documentation
 * cleanng up patches from last week
 * reminder - I'm off tomorrow