Scrum of scrums/2018-05-09

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2018-05-09[edit]

Callouts[edit]

Audiences[edit]

Readers[edit]

iOS native app[edit]

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Android native app[edit]

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    • Nearly ready with Multilingual prototype for user-testing at the Hackathon.

Readers Web[edit]

Readers Infrastructure[edit]

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    • Updated mobile-sections, summary, and action=mobileview to take overridden local short descriptions into account (also provide the source where the description came from: local or central wiki; the first two endpoints are already deployed, the action=mobileview is riding the train this week)
    • Added announcement for production Android app to point to a survey about reading list sync, running for one week since Tuesday.
    • Add to Reading List browser extensions awaiting legal review
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Maps[edit]
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Multimedia[edit]

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    • Working on frontend changes for MediaInfo (changing forms to OOUI)
    • Added instrumentation to UploadWizard via EventLogging
    • Continuing work on search indexing of properties and qualifiers
    • Discussion in progress about what parts of MCR need to be completed for initial SDoC launch with multi-lingual file captions

Contributors[edit]

Community Tech[edit]

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Anti-Harassment Tools[edit]

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Editing[edit]

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Parsing[edit]

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Collaboration[edit]

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    • Internationalized maps are live
    • <mapframe> live on almost all Wikipedias (waiting for a Parsoid restart before we announce)

Language[edit]

Audiences Design[edit]

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UI Standardization[edit]

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    • OOUI – v0.27.0 breaking change release: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md;v0.27.0
    • 5 breaking changes & 2 deprecations in this release! Additionally 7 style changes, 4 code & 3 accessibility improvements. Among those:
      • Infusable PHP NumberInputWidget is now added and part of core (mainframe98)
      • ProcessDialog: Fix footer height when actions or dialog size changes (Bartosz Dziewoński)
      • icons: Add 'editing-citation' pack (Volker E.)
      • SelectFileWidget: Use `<label>` for select ButtonElement (Volker E.)
    • Continued work on Design Style Guide

Technology[edit]

Analytics[edit]

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    • Kafka upgrade on main Kafka cluster (tier 1)
    • Upgrading druid to 0.11 and running into trouble, testing in labs.
    • Working on geoeditors (the improved geowiki data - #editors per country).
    • Work continues to update UA Parser.
    • Recruiting for SRE, Audiences and data analysts team.
    • Surfacing virtual pageviews in aggregated form in Hive and in Druid/pivot.
    • switching on EL sanitization in Hive, not yet deleting data, just creating another sanitized copy.

Cloud Services[edit]

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Fundraising Tech[edit]

MediaWiki Platform[edit]

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Performance[edit]

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    • Continuing to migrate our tools, making good progress there.
    • Evaluating several different mobile testing services, hoping to find one that allows us to do regular testing but haven't yet done so.
    • Beginning to do performance testing on Android phones (mobile site, not app)
    • Had an issue with NavTiming extension that resulted in some data collection being dropped. Fixed at the end of last week.
    • Beginning some ResourceLoader refactoring to reduce overhead. Related, looking in to deferring jQuery until somewhat later in the page load process.
    • Blocked the train last week, had to roll back a change to DBTransactionError
    • Refactoring varnish log processing for better reusability
    • Planning an offsite for June

Release Engineering[edit]

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Research[edit]

Scoring Platform[edit]

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Search Platform[edit]

Security[edit]

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Services[edit]

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    • Kafka 1.1 🎉 Cheers to Analytics
    • A lot of RESTBase patches are getting deployed
    • A big thank for everyone who reached to us regarding the jobs callout from last week

Site Reliability Engineering[edit]

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Wikidata[edit]

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    • nodejs selenium tests to be stable and voting on ci they still fail most of the time due to issues that are in mediawiki core or other extensions and generally seem super flaky
    • Enhanced recent changes don't format external usernames well in contributors summary https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/428712/ (Any objections?)


German Technical Wishlist[edit]

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping[edit]

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