Roadmap/2012/January

January 2012

Platform / Dev-Ops

• Make decision regarding project parameters for inline template scripting [discuss in SF Hackathon and at 1/25 meeting]
  • Lua or Javascript V8 or something else? [DONE] (Lua FTW)

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• MediaWiki 1.18.1 [Sam] [DONE]
• Actual MediaWiki TestSwarm integration

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• MediaWiki architecture document
  • Address second (and last) round of feedback and submit final version to the book editors [Guillaume] [DONE]

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• Other projects with significant work, but not significant milestones hit:
  • Git conversion
  • Swift
  • MediaWiki 1.19

Analytics

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• Filter improvements
  • Notification when filter fails [DONE]
  • Refactoring of filter code [DONE]

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• Report Card Prototype: Begin work [DONE]

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• Create clone of stats.grok.se in Wikimedia Labs [DONE]

• Begin assessment of page view stats for mobile apps [Andre] [DONE]

Mobile / Offline

• Wikipedia Zero in testing [DONE]
• Android app Market release [Brion, Yuvi] [DONE]
• Refactor PhoneGap code base in prep for next platform work [DONE]
• Wikipedia Android app 1.0.1/2/3 release [Yuvi,Tomasz] [DONE]
• Wikipedia Android app 1.1aplha1 release [Yuvi] [DONE]
• WikipediaMobile iOS update [DONE]
• Developed of first prototype of GPS Storage/Retrieval for testing [Max] [DONE]
• RSS feeds for article snippets like "Featured Articles" to production [Max] [DONE]
• Deploy prototype of Wikipedia on SMS/USSD for India or Africa audience [Praekelt Foundation (Jeremey) / Patrick]

Features

• Editor Engagement features
  • AFT:
    • Continue testing of feedback form: prominent link [1/11] [DONE]
    • Click-tracking of edit links on test pages for cannibalization analysis: [DONE]
    • Reader (commenter) survey [Targeting 1/25] [DONE]
  • Moodbar/Feedback Dashboard
    • Email tracking (in aggregate) [DONE]
    • Feedback log (enables Moodbar comments to show in Special:RecentChanges) [DONE]
    • Other features (top responders, show unanswered) [DONE]
  • New Page Triage:
    • Article Creation Interstitial Mockups: First Iteration [DONE]
    • Continued research on Page Patrollers [Oliver/Ian] [DONE]

• Multimedia:
  • TMH
    • Complete labs setup of TMH (Ian/Ryan) [1/31] partially done
    • Review chunked uploading code [Tim] [DONE]

• I18n/L10n:
  • WebFonts update - Preview functionality for WebFonts (via URL parameter or otherwise) [DONE]
  • Evaluation of additional fonts for WebFonts, Narayam [DONE]
  • Unit test development for WebFonts, Narayam, Translate [DONE]
  • Documentation updates for WebFonts, Narayam, Translate [DONE]

• Visual Editor - Design discussions of round trip functionality, DOM interfaces completed; further improvements to editable surface in progress;

Operations

• Double Mobile Varnish infrastructure@EQIAD and upgrade to latest version of Varnish ( V3.0.2 & from 2 to 4 servers) [DONE]
• add 2 more Mobile Varnish servers for SOPA [DONE]
• Deploy Ganglia@EQIAD [DONE]
• MySQL upgrade - EQIAD db clusters [DONE]
• db refresh (s1 to s7) [in progress]
• Deploy multicast support for udp2log [Mark/Diederik] [Abandon for now]
  • deployment surfaced problem with existing Brocade switches. So will work on plan B - unicast to EQIAD and then multicast it there.
• EQIAD datacenter new row of racks [ordered, in progress]
• Sign contract with new network provider for TPA and additional provider for EQIAD [DONE]
• Security updates (key management)
• Enhance Firewall rules [Leslie/Mark] [DONE]
• Thumbnail server replacement - Front-end (ms5)
• Lily [Mailman] server replacement [PY/DZahn/Mark] [DONE]
• /home move to NetApp [Mark] [in progress]
• Test effectiveness of Flash Drive
• Labs features rollout
  • Build out LVS in Labs [Ryan/Mark]
  • Double the current storage capacity of Labs and make 30 new instances available for new projects [DONE]
  • Create squid instance in Labs
  • Add resilience to Lab Controller service by building redundant Controller services in EQIAD which includes DNS, LDAP, MySQL