2016-01-27[edit]

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Hotfix for login issues, v2.1.138, in production.
v2.1.139 beta published for changes in Wiktionary API and removal of "m." requests.
Android saved synchronized articles implementation in progress (using API's userjs feature).
Even better memory profile coming soon.

Evaluating pageviews API usage for "Trending/Top Articles" feature in 5.0
Need to start evaluating impact of API usage in 5.0 (particularly extensive use of extracts prop w/ search
Login/Account creation integration meeting (AuthManager API changes in MW core)

Wrapping up work on Gadgets 2.0 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadgets_2.0
- Could probably use a security review from Chris once it's done - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124943
Collaborating with volunteers on Dead link rescue (bot) and Pagestats tool (still in planning stage)
Working on getting PageAssessments extension ready for testing as a prototype https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageAssessments
- Already had security review and DBA review

Got parallel corpora tables created
Working on AbuseFilter
- Many articles not published due to AbuseFilter warnings/errors
- We are improving UI to better surface these warnings and what they mean
- Also trying to figure how to get more exact locations of the issues out of AbuseFilter
- If any AbuseFilter experts around, I might have questions
cxserver itself is ready for Node 4.2, but the Apertium packages are still WIP (T106385), no estimate of when they'll be done.
- how urgent is this?
  - Answer: Don't have to do both at the same time.

Moriel is working on having human-readable names for all Wikimedia wikis available programatically in all languages. Initially, this will be used for cross-wiki notifications, but it can potentially be used in many other areas. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121936
Jaime approved the Flow dry run patch for the External Store migration. It now needs to be reviewed by our team and then tested on Beta Cluster.
I'll (Matt Flaschen) be at FOSDEM, and lead the MediaWiki stand presence. I'm also presenting on the LiquidThreads to Flow conversion. See wikitech-l for more information.

Blockers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58337 is blocked on review from Krinkle for https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/259771/ and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/265878/ and so https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/265879/
Blockees: Only known blockee is Design Research, waiting on above patches to land on Beta Cluster.
Production deployment on shared feedback page and VE default-on for another few wikis delayed from Monday due to the train; not yet scheduled.

found temp solution for load spikes, moved more_like traffic to another cluster
- working on improving "more like" performance, may change results, will a/b test https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124258
working on yearly plan/budget
started loading analytics data into ElasticSearch, full run takes ~12 hrs, may need to look for performance improvement
Working on integrating completion search into SearchEngine API
Blazegraph 2.0 is out, Wikidata Query service upgrading soon
Blocked:
- need help from Ops for access analytics->codfw for elastic20{01..24}.codfw.wmnet, er, I 'd rather not have ACLs on the routers referring to non intra DC things. Why is that needed ? Task ? Same reason we needed it before, we need to get data from analytics to ES machines and this is the only way we found we can do it right now. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120281

eqiad access works, but codfw one does not.

Creating CI job to test DonationInterface on mw branch deployed on payments cluster
- thanks Antoine!
Working on new fraud filters
More CiviCRM fixes and improvements
Making code changes to expand Latin America fundraising from just Brazil to six other countries

Blocked: none
Blocked by:
- ORES moving to new meso-level (Labs < Meso < Prod) support -- blocked on Ops time to set up machines
  - See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106867 -- working with Yuvi to flesh out sub-tasks -- need to know who to CC