Scrum of scrums/2018-20-24

=2018-10-24=

Callouts

 * Technical Engagement
 * Google Code In  starts on Tuesday 2018-10-23 and runs until 2018-12-13. GCI is a contest to encourage and inspire pre-university students to begin participating in open source development. More mentors and tasks are needed! Read mentor instructions on mediawiki.org  or contact Andre Klapper to get involved.
 * Release Engineering
 * revision-create event date format has changed (we think) -- new format example "2018-10-24T00:28:24.162300+00:00" -- if you know anything chime in on task please https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207817
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/EventBus/+/468482 is likely the culprit

Community Tech
- TemplateWizard was released as a beta feature to all wikis
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Anti-Harassment Tools

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 * Releasing Partial Blocks to beta. Some tests failed on gate-and-submit CI process (specifically with postgres), we're dealing with those.
 * Discovered an inconsistency with the database layer, patch pending on that: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/469324/



Editing

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 * Blocking: Growth team on cross collaboration instrumentation
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 * Added VisualEditorFeatureUse schema

Growth

 * Blocked by:
 * We need security review of the GrowthExperiments extension https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207798
 * RelEng figuring out how to unblock and merge
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/468171
 * Editing on cross collaboration instrumentatio


 * Updates:
 * Copyvio bot logging trial concluded on enwiki should be live on Thursday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/EranBot_3
 * PageViews schema is on meta wiki https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:PageViews and we will start testing in beta this week or early next week https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents/+/464432

Language

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 * ContentTranslation v2 work continue.
 * Work on mediawiki-html-sanitizer library: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-html-sanitizer

iOS native app

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 * 6.1 with wikidata description editing & revert notifications in beta (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1-narwhal-on-a-bumper-car/)
 * 6.1.1 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1.1-narwhal-on-a-magic-pumpkin/) will be a bug fix & tech debt release
 * mobile editing research

Android native app

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Readers Web

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 * Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):


 * Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
 * Complete webpack migration of mobile.startup T206169
 * Collapse mobile.search.util into mobile.startup T206027
 * Migrate PageGateway tests to node-qunit T206226
 * Use NPM for Hogan v2.0.0 T205128


 * Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
 * A/B test will conclude soon T200792


 * Maintenance and bug fixes T207423 T207480


 * Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
 * Design and product continuing special pages work in Minerva


 * PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
 * Remaining work tracked in T186748
 * Rewrite Queue to Promises T204055
 * Upgrade Puppeteer to v1.9.0 T207416


 * SEO:
 * Add Schema.org Article JSON-LD to main namespace pages T198946
 * Server side split test T206868


 * Product and management in Portland.

Readers Infrastructure

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Multimedia

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 * Hiring continues
 * SDoC - some progress on beta cluster deployment
 * SDoC - discussion on data modelling continues
 * SDoC - usability study on multi-lingual captions
 * SDoC - 'depicts' upload wizard

Parsing

 * Blocked by: No one
 * Blocking: Hopefully no one :-)
 * Updates:
 * "Untidy" parser output is being deprecated
 * Most system messages are being tidied in this week's train (and next week)
 * If you see unexpected UI changes (probably extra whitespace) let us know
 * HTML DOM structure might change as well (if you are doing screen scraping)
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/topic:deprecate-wgtidy

UI Standardization

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Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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 * Dealing with some odd PayPal behavior regarding legacy subscriptions
 * Working out county-specific issues with card processor in Latin America campaign
 * Deployed new batch-mode payment spreadsheet importer
 * Preparing 3 proposals for contractor work on CentralNotice - live banner previews, campaign fallback and sub-national targeting, and calendar display.

MediaWiki Core Platform

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Performance

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Release Engineering
**Growth needs support on how to unblock and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/468171
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 * Train is blocked on group0
 * WDQS problems
 * revision-create event date format has changed (we think) -- new format example "2018-10-24T00:28:24.162300+00:00" -- if you know anything chime in on task please
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/EventBus/+/468482 is likely the culprit
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Research

 * Blocked by: None
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 * Writing a paper that researches Wikipedia section alignments across languages: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Expanding_Wikipedia_articles_across_languages/Inter_language_approach
 * Working on taking the Recommendation API to production: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/services/recommendation-api/+/450601/
 * Stopping data collection for citation usage schemas on 10/25: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/465418/

Scoring Platform
** Redis task tracker is live now, ores responses is now cut to half ** More work on upgrading to celery 4 is ongoing
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Search Platform

 * Blocked by: breakage in the updater (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207817) being handled
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 * WDQS Updater incident: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20181024-WDQS - working on it
 * Fixed issue with Lexeme data not being properly updated in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207673
 * Fixed search satisfaction browser tests: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206232
 * Working on “wrong keyboard layout” detection: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138958
 * Working on ES 6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282
 * Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654
 * Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108
 * Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108

Security
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 * Blocking: T207798 Security review for GrowthExperiments extension opened 10/23

Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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Multi-Content Revisions

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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