Multimedia/Standup notes/2017/November

2017-11-01

Matthias

Holiday today - no update

Chris

• Recovering from back-to-back offsites
• Feedback from legal language about weapons and patented objects has been archived
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2017/10#Input_requested_on_3D_object_file_upload_process
• I'll draft an announcment to Commons about enabling 3D (one last, "Hey, this is coming!" post)
  • I'm out Thrus and Friday, but will try and get something done today.

Pam

• Catching up on talks from WikidataCon 2017

Ramsey

• Following up on 3D upload tasks with Matthias - current issue affects scenario with uploading multiple files
• Will sync up with Pam for a possible UI design tweak for the above issue
• Will ping legal for a URL that points to the official 3D file license language on Foundation Wiki
• Follow-up with #NEWPALMYRA for the 3D file they want to use to honor Bassel.

2017-11-02

Matthias

• 3D UploadWizard legal thingies
• Take a look at Cormac's SVG patch

Anthony

• Looking at QA column to find things to do

Pam

• Finish watching Wikidatacon lightning talks
• Doing design team related stuff (give comments on handbook)
• Waiting for Ramsey email about 3D flow

Ramsey

• Chat with Kaldari re: MP3 (they may be able to take that over)
• Responded to Matthias UW/3D/legal questions
• Look at phabricator
• Meetings, emails, ...

2017-11-06

Chris

• Drafting update to Commons on 3D coming soon
  • Draft wIll be here as I work on it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/3D_announcement

Matthias

• 3D/legal/UW patch
• Reviewing SVG patch
• Next: 3D patches (lightning, shadows & camera rotation issue)

Ramsey

• SDoC: looking into request to make categories structured
• 3D 3rd party working on Commons-compatible models - they have a few questions
• Will miss next 2 standups

Anthony

• Needs things to look at

Pam

• Commons - upload stuff, search stuff

2017-11-07

Matthias

(will not be here during standup)

• Code review & QA
• Will work on 3D next (add top bar to patent dialog & work on shadow & camera angle for object rendering)

Ramsey

(meeting conflict, won't be attending this standup)

• Preparing slides for presentation at Google LA next week
• Looking into the current state of documentation for the Commons API
• Still trying to resolve debate surrounding structured categories

2017-11-08

Matthias

• Reviewed PD-Art patch...
• ... which uncovered another small issue with a warning being displayed when selecting current day - fixed that
  • Mark: can you review that: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/389970/
• Added top bar with filename for patent dialog - patch is ready for review (just missing a link to legal text)

Cormac

A/V issues

Max

• Catching up on things
  • Looks at board & backlog

Pam

• Research Monumental (upload tool)

2017-11-09

Matthias

• Messing around with 3D cameras - more of that tomorrow
• Will look some more at SVG patch

Max

• Setting up for retro

Ramsey

• Meeting with Katherine and Product team
• Tasks: SDoC Team is kind of battling with the idea of Structured Categories, concerned this will grow out of control
• Google LA prezzo
• Getting ready for 3D launch, Legal chats, Comms, CE, etc
• Met with Anthony on QA

Pam

• Yesterday researching Monumental, speci map UIs

Mark

• Lo, I am returnèd
• Today: Email backlogs, etc.
• Hopefully get another shot at the MediaInfo patch, Daniel Kinzler gave me good insights into things

Cormac

• Looking at PDF issue (setting up Swift to dig deeper)

2017-11-13

• Planning meeting today!

Mark

• All caught up, feeling good
• Going to finish up MediaInfo patch (finally)

Matthias

• 3D patches (patent in UW, camera rotation, default object position & shadows) awaiting review
  • Will apply these same changes to 3d2png soon, but first
• CR SVG patch

Max

• Planning meeting today - sorry missed a few

Ramsey

• Google LA - fundraising presentation, image search, MP3 stuff

Pam

• Design review of UW starting today
  • Heuristics
  • Starting evaluation

Amanda

• Mostly non-MM work right now
• Structured data blog post
• HR-y work
• Financial things
• Community wishlist comments re: SDoC

Cormac

• Swift backend running locally - may be able to reproduce bug now - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178849

2017-11-14

Mark

• MediaInfo work nearly done yesterday - have some blockers on WMDE, will ping them about it

Matthias

• Reviewing SVG patch
  • Vagrant issues

Pam

• <missed this>

Ramsey

• Fundraiser presentation
• SDoC - prepping for IRC office hours
• Reviewing next quarter plans
• Following up with 3D partners

Cormac

• PDF - managed to reproduce bug with Swift

2017-11-15

Matthias

• Merged SVG patch
• Applied 3D changes to 3d2png as well
• Got lots of (mostly 3D-related) patches that need review

Amanda

• Conversation with GLAM for SDoC
• Need help from Ramsey & Pam for user stories
• Reviewing documents for Sandra (IRC office hours etc)
• Dealing with restricted grant stuff
• Needs MCR work to keep moving/get done

Cormac

• Figured out PDF bug
• QA
• Trying to upload some files

Mark

• Chatted with WMDE about FOURTH APPROACH to MediaInfo work. sigh
• Will do some CR today and wait for WMDE resolution.

Pam

• Design review of UW
• Dig into inspiration for multilingual fields

Ramsey

• Review things for MP3
• Communication with 3rd parties to build tool for MP3
• Did presentation
• Discussions about SDoC & Google Image Search
• Going through backlog
• Will create ticket for Pam to do research into UW & integrating multilingual captions

2017-11-16

Mark

• Did some CR yesterday in between meetingpocalypse
• Today: ??? maybe more CR, maybe some errands in between things
• Tomorrow: Finishing up some book-learnin' for management stuff

Matthias

• Lot of patches got merged, yay
• Fixed shadows in 3d2png
• Added plural support in patent dialog patch

Ramsey

• Done with fundraiser stuff
• Work on Phab tickets
• Product strategy stuff

Max

• Nothing MM

Pam

• UW design review

Chris

• Getting the 3D announcment translated for the non-English Commons Village Pumps
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/3D_announcement
• Feedback thus far has been positive, if not minimal.
  • Folks want more 3D formats!
• Does Multimedia have a plan for addressing Community Tech Wishlist proposals? A: Yes :)
  • https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Multimedia_and_Commons

Cormac

• Got & responded to feedback on PDF issue
• QA'd tickets
• Volunteer day tomorrow

2017-11-20

Mark

• n.b. - vacation Wednesday, flying to Las Vegas (plus Thursday and Friday as usual)
• No updates on MediaInfo
• Will do CR then find a task to claim...

Matthias

• Nothing

Max

• Nothing MM
• Dive into Phlogiston, come up with some reports
• Backlog grooming today

Cormac

• Submitted patches for PDF

Ramsey

• Meetings
• IRC office hours tomorrow at 9:00
• Non-technical 3D stuff, working with some projects
• Contact 3rd party about MP3 review tool
• Monitoring community wishlist items

2017-11-21

Mark

• Finishing up a CR run-through
• Getting ready to leave the state tomorrow - will be AFK starting tonight and totally incommunicado tomorrow around noon SF time
• Should be available Thursday/Friday for urgent things, just in case

Matthias

• Checking out Wikibase

Amanda

• SDoC IRC office hours
• Talking to Cindy about MCR code review
• Talking to Ramsey about making decisions for roadmap
• Send grant report update email

Anthony

• Going through Phab tickets
  • [?] Do we need/want a "PM signoff" column in Phab?
    • [!] Once it hits "QA", it has already been PM-approved
• Worked out multimedia QA strategy

Ramsey

• Meetings, lot of them
• SDoC IRC office hours
• Create project page for scan the world
• Check Phab tickets

Cormac

• Investigating missing pages for some files

2017-11-22

Cormac

• Took a look at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174757 - pretty sure it's a config issue, but I don't seem to have permissions to see how the bug reporter has configured his campaigns. Any ideas from the rest of the team?
• Think I have taken the missing pages for files issue as far as I can - wrote it up in the comments and un-assigned it from myself
• looked into wikibase a little, will search for a do-able bug in wikidata :)

Matthias

• Checking out Wikibase

Ramsey

• Working on Reading roadmap
• Digging into Phab tickets

2017-11-23

Matthias

• Checking out Wikibase

2017-11-27

Mark

• Returning from vacation means lots of backlog checking!
• Bit of CR, bit of email, bit of Phabricator
• Few meetings today as well - check-in stuff mostly
• Assuming all of that gets done, I can jump back in to MediaInfo/Wikibase familiarity/wandering

Chris

• Posted an update on the MP3 user group being enabled today on Commons
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#MP3_uploaders_user_group_created

Cormac

• bug fixing!
• mostly responding to code review comments
• more of the same tomorrow

Ramsey

• working on triaging/addressing Phab tickets, both old and new
• demoing 3D upload for the Monthly Product meeting
• meeting/discussing with Amanda and Sandra about Structured Data stuff
• will chat with relevant parties about potential blockers on MediaInfo

Matthias

• Code review

2017-11-28

Cormac

• more bugfixing
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178849 got merged
• investigating https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176010 atm
• might tackle https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180691 next

Matthias

• Built 3d2png-deploy
• Took over FormatMetadata undefined index (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178130)
• More CR
• Need review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/390274/, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/393730/ & https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/383959/

Mark

• Didn't make it through my backlog yesterday - continuing
• Then, on to prototyping/playing with Wikibase and MediaInfo stuff

Ramsey

• Meetings!
• Updating documentation, user stories!
• Phab work!
• QA!

Amanda

• Ping about admin rights on structured labs instance
• Meetings!
• MW platform: CR help

2017-11-29

Matthias

• CR
• Filed a new ticket & provided clarification on another around bad duplicate upload handling
• Back to Wikidata

Mark

• Backlog: Complete
• Today, lots of meetings and not much else...
• Hopefully some time to play with a prototype in MediaInfo-land

Cormac

• Trying to get shell access
• CR

Ramsey

• Meetings
• Polish up SDoC & MM workboards

2017-11-30

Matthias

• Submitted patch to increase UW upload limit for certain groups
• Playing around with Wikidata/MediaInfo

Mark

• Meetings sapped most of yesterday
• Today: Actually working on MediaInfo stuff to some extent
• Tomorrow: Finishing some management reading

Cormac

• Local duplicate thing that Matthias raised

Ramsey

• Linked up with Grace & Amanda about RACI/DACI to create chart about roles
• Continued Phabricator cleanup
• Done 3D testing, will give some feedback
• Catch up with Pam
• MP3 update: Kaldari's handling it - should be coming soon

Max

• No updates

Amanda

• Talking with advancement & fincance about grant reports & financial projections
• Helping Ann with cross-departmental program review & improvement for next annual planning cycle

Pam

• Catch up on email
• Arrange to see 3D demo