Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2017-05-08

May 8, 2017

Previous Retrospective Actions

 * [DMITRY] to send out notes/docs on reading lists / collections planning [OBSOLETE]
 * [COREY] to put together the straw man of API & response format for the reading lists no later than Wed morning [DONE]

Significant Events

 * Stephen is moving to Memphis 🎉++
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvliMzAFWHM
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIrxyAY1WBk
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGEFm2MrNyQ
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzJ7CO6QriI
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrbPlr4Wskc


 * Rita is back (yay)+🌴
 * Enabling plaform backups (soon)+💥

Learned

 * Math formulas in MediaWiki / MathML+
 * Workings of wikipedia-page-library+
 * Deep-dive into webkit's internals (svg support, XMLHttpRequest logic)
 * if an artist is not in the Top 30K articles on Wikipedia, probably not worth buying at a cruise art auction <-> Usefulness of offline Wiki for non-NR

Loved

 * Periodic CI works! (Thanks Michael!)
 * #cruiselyfe
 * Tasking of page library

Questions

 * Citolytics a/b test?
 * How are we feeling about share-a-fact these days? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Action Items

 * [NATALIA] to add a design backlog task to improve Share-a-fact