Wikimedia Features engineering/Notes/2012-W07

Amir
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Andrew
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Arthur
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Benny
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 * Working with Article Creation Workflow
 * Bug fix for category tree

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 * Contine with Article Creation Workflow implementation
 * Deployment and Cross Browser Testing
 * Start with New Page Triage

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Brandon
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Brion
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Dario
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 * On vacation until Wednesday, returned to the office on Thursday
 * Mostly caught up with my backlog from previous weekReviewed status of AFT data collection, filed issue with incorrect tracking of CTA data
 * Met with Yvonne Kammerer re: possible areas of interest for eye-tracking/usability research
 * Review metrics/clicktracking specs for Article Creation w/ Benny/Howie/Andrew
 * Follow deployment of patch to clicktracking for AFT Edit CTA and run sanity check on data after fix is pushed
 * Collect use cases for revtagging
 * Recommendation for overhaul of clicktracking system
 * Goals/research plan for new contractor (Giovanni)
 * Review with AFT team research report from phase 1 and discuss next phase and timeline
 * Update on feedback policy w/ Legal
 * RCom work

Gabriel
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 * Added support for preprocessor stuff in attribute keys and values
 * Continued work on parser functions, tokenizer etc- 238 tests passing currently
 * Reorganized Future and related pages, named parser project as Parsoid (suggestion by Amgine); updated documentation in general
 * More technical DOM discussion, and a lot of non-technical activity on wikitext

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 * Helped Audrey Tang find her way around the code, detailed on-wiki todo
 * Bug fixing- trying to survive template-heavy (especially cite) pages
 * Start microdata implementation, add more rt data etc

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 * A lot of not-that-hard-but-a-lot-of-work items on the todo list

Gerard
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Howie
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Ian
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Jeremy
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 * Working on CiviCRM recurring credit card payments.
 * Gave a UnitTest tutorial to OmniTI for AFT
 * Reviewing applicants for backend developer in fundraising

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 * Working on CiviCRM recurring credit card payments.
 * Working on LastModified Extension fixme
 * Adding features to UnitTest extension
 * Reviewing applicants for backend developer in fundraising

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Jeroen
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Kaldari
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Katie
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 * Continued work on auditing tools
 * Did code review for Jeremy's work on the globalcollect recurring module for Drupal / CiviCRM
 * Reviewed many resumes of potential candidates for the fundraiser dev position

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 * Start phone screens and interviews for the new fundraiser dev
 * Continued work on the auditing tools in Drupal / CiviCRM
 * More code review and deployments to the fundraising Drupal / CiviCRM instance as-needed

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Niklas
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 * new translation memory is progressing, enabled on twn, and I've started playing with labs to test in environment closer to wmf cluster, also blogged about it
 * Some UI work Special:Translate - comments welcome

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Roan
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RobM
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 * Editable Surface IME prototyping

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 * Various experiments with ES IME modes
 * Create a cross browser IME prototype

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Santhosh
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Siebrand
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Timo
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 * (Unavailable this week due to college)

Trevor
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 * Met with CE team
 * Prototyped concept for floating

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 * Implement floating

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 * Brainpower shortages