Scrum of scrums/2016-08-24

2016-08-24

Product

Reading

Android native app

• Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2142/
• Next sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2178/
• Summary: Navigation UX overhaul work continues

Mobile Content Service (MCS)

• no update

iOS native app

• Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1736/
  • 5.1 is in regrssion / beta. Due to go to the app store next week
• Next board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2150/
  • 5.2 is in developmentwith expected deployment alongside iOS 10 release in late September
    • Adding iOS 10 support (with widgets)
    • Dropping iOS 8 support

Reading Web

• Current sprint:
  • Shipped lazy loaded images to all wikipedias
  • Diagnosing hovercards EL
  • Improving search exp in mobile web
  • Improvements to related pages and the footer in mobile web

• Next sprint:
  • Related pages improvements
  • Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis

Community Tech

• AbuseFilter/AntiSpoof fix (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29987) - deployed and most filters + titleblacklists updated
• Numeric sorting
  • Deployed numeric sorting to Swedish Wikipedia for further testing, seems to be working
  • Will deploy to English Wikipedia next week barring any bug discoveries
• Cross-wiki watchlists - making schema changes to CentralAuth
• No blockers

Discovery

• No blockers
• Working on BM25 implementation
• Working on multi-wiki indexes
• Working on integrating Polestar (http://vega.github.io/polestar/) and WDQS GUI to allow create graphs visually from WDQS results
• Deployed portal updates & blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/16/wikipedia-portal-update/
• Retro of portal evolution: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Impact_of_Wikipedia.org_Portal_Changes_-_A_Retrospective_Statistical_Analysis.pdf
• Reordering of stemming/asciifolding deployed, but no changes pending reindex (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142721 )
• Analysis of asciifolding in French: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Adding_Ascii-Folding_to_French_Wikipedia
  • TLDR: French more complex than English ;) But positive results.
• Asked for community help to update "showing results from" translation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143355 * Analysis of portal pageview increase: https://github.com/wikimedia-research/Discovery-Research-Portal/blob/master/Analyses/Pageviews%20Rise/README.md

Editing

Language

• Blocked: none
• Blocking: none
• Updates:
  • Apertium packages for Jessie ready (few waiting for dependencies to be uploaded to WMF repo).
  • CX getting updates on template handling soon.

Parsing

• Still waiting on a security review of the ParserMigration extension.
• Thinking about going ahead with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111604 in the coming months (spliting up parser tests into multiple files). If you have thoughts / concerns, please comment on the ticket.
• Nothing else significant to report.

Collaboration

• Blocking:
  • Stephane is making progress on the Flow caching rewrite, which is blocking multi-DC.
• Blocked:
• Updates:
  • We have enabled Flow on all user talk pages on kabwiki.
  • New feature to allow unwatching Flow boards from an Echo notification.
  • Rasterizing Echo icons for email to work around Gmail bug.
  • Fixed dot-dot-dot menu on Special:Notifications on mobile
  • MediaWiki-Vagrant change to use psysh for Zend, since phpsh is broken

Technology

Analytics

• AQS (pageview api) cluster is having some performance issues, Luca is back tomorrow and will take a closer look
• Getting ready to build the Wikistats 2.0 front-end, evaluating js frameworks, do weigh in if interested
• same ongoing work as last week, loading the new cluster, deploying the new event bus schemas, vetting the reconstruction of edit history

Security

• Security reviews this week:
  • ACL configuration for url-downloader.wikimedia.org allowing upload.wikimedia.org
  • Catching up on reviews from last week
• Incident handling
• Darian working on hiring tasks with Recruiting

Services

Blocking: none

Blocked:

• Parsoid move to scap3 blocked by RelEng: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142990

Updates:

• Deployed Change Prop with new kafka driver

RelEng

• Blocking
  • Parsoid scap3 deployment: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142990
• Blocked
  • (Ops) Contint networking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140257#2553490
  • (Ops/puppet) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/300092/ ("contint: tidy Nodepool slaves config history")
  • (Ops) Help requested: Upgrade base MW-Vagrant image to Jessie - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136429
    • Outline from bd808: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136429#2572195
    • Ori suggesting Ops support: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136429#2572433
• Updates
  • Bugfix release of scap
  • European SWAT started Monday!

Fundraising Tech

• More queue work
• More dedupe work
• Applied security release to payments
• Reacting to GeoIP lookup domain removal (3rd party impact)

ArchCom

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status
• Last week: 2016W33: 2016-08-17 (Wednesday)
  • ArchCom Planning meeting: Phab:E260
    • Notes: Architecture committee/2016-08-17
  • ArchCom-RFC office hour: Phab:E261
    • Agenda: Revisiting T105652 (content model storage)
• This week: 2016W34: 2016-08-24 (Wednesday)
  • ArchCom Planning meeting: Phab:E262
    • Notes: Architecture committee/2016-08-24
  • ArchCom-RFC office hour: Phab:E263
    • Agenda: Schema change for page content language

Wikidata

• Blockers: none.
• Progess on the "structured data for Commons" prototype … (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140760)
• … as well as concept work for automated list generation (https://twitter.com/simulo/status/766717877047193600).
• We wrote a policy about guarantees we give about our public interfaces for data access (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Stable_Interface_Policy).
• Experimenting with sorting statements (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129244).