Scrum of scrums/2019-12-04

2019-12-04

Callouts

• Release Engineering - unusual train schedule:
  • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - group1 + group2
  • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.10
  • December 23-January 3rd - No deploys (including train), Holiday break

Product

Editing

• Updates:
  • Finalizing work on high fidelity prototype for replies on talk pages

Growth

• Updates:
  • Cleaning up remaining bugs from v1.0 release of newcomer tasks

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Released 6.5 on 12/2 - phab:project/view/4245
    • Fundraising announcement on article
    • History & Diffs screens
  • Beginning exploratory work on 6.6 phab:project/view/4273
    • Mobile-html
    • Bug fixes

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Suggested Edits v3 is live, as well as fundraising announcement (article banner in newest app version, and in the Feed in older versions)
  • Continuing integration with mobile-html, and continuing to test the latest Parsoid / content service with language variant support.

Readers Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: planning for desktop improvements and tapering off of advanced mode.
  • Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP)]:
    • Planning, research, and task creation
    • phab:T239248 Divide VectorTemplate into components]
  • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend / Portals):
    • Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions Advanced mode]:
      • phab:T232652 Add History to article toolbar for all logged-in users]
      • phab:T232594 Add article and discussion tabs to all logged-in users on mobile]
    • Miscellaneous:
      • phab:T232734 Mobile logout should not involve an interstitial]
      • phab:T225213 Main Menu should work without JavaScript to be more accessible and a better user experience]
      • phab:T214045 Drawers should be removed from DOM after close]

Product Infrastructure

• Updates:
  • Computer-Aided Tagging will launch soon (TM), after the go-ahead from Performance
  • mobileapps flapping is under investigation (phab:T239344)
    • seems related to increased request rate associated with the Parsoid/PHP rollout (phab:T238832#5708029)
    • There are also some unexplained MW API request timeouts for which I'm adding more logging for further investigation

Structured Data

• Updates:
  • rdfDumps now unblocked
  • getting recentchanges by slot merged, so unblocking search
  • work continues on new input types for structured data
  • tech talk on Structured Data on Commons 1 week from today

Parsing

• Updates:
  • Parsoid/PHP deployed to all wikis and all products except (a) linter (b) language converter. These 2 products are served by Parsoid/JS

Language

• Updates:
  • Team is back from Offsite.
  • More Apertium MT updates coming up.
  • Exploring MarianMT at: phab:T234194

Inuka

• Updates:
  • KaiOS better pagination phab:T234436

UI Standardization

• Updates:
  • Design Style Guide https://design.wikimedia.org/style-guide/
    • Polishing tasks
    • Improving responsive layout
    • Adding further components, like recently Comboboxes
  • OOUI release v0.35.2 in preparation

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Monitoring fundraiser, tuning parameters to keep receipts and stats flowing smoothly
  • Yesterday donors gave us more money by far than any other single day in the foundation's history
    • For publicly available stats (as CSVs), see https://frdata.wikimedia.org
  • Seeing lower-than-expected CentralNotice banner impressions for US, AU, and IE but that may be all because of bots: phab:T239748
  • Small tweaks to Civi custom code to reduce logspam and cache a few more db lookups.

Core Platform

• Blocking:
  • Product Infrastructure - mobileapps flapping is under investigation (phab:T239344), seems related to increased request rate associated with the Parsoid/PHP rollout
• Updates:
  • Next round of Core REST API work
  • Virtual offsite next week (Dec 10-12)

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Blocking:
  • Wikimedia Deutschland/Wikidata: Setting up Pipeline CI job for wikibase/vuejs-components repository: gerrit:551829
  • Blocking SRE, onboarding Gerrit and Zuul Prometheus metrics gerrit:479139
• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - phab:T233856 - group0 only because of Thanksgiving
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - phab:T233856 - group1 + group2
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.10 - phab:T233858

Scoring Platform

• Blocking:
  • Blocking SRE identifying ORES metrics phab:T233448#5638765 - Acknowledged
• Updates:
  • Jade API code is ready for review again - phab:T199834
  • Model improvements coming for euwiki and cawiki - phab:T238839
  • Model improvements coming for nowiki - phab:T130291
  • Looking at SpaCy and other "industrial strength" NLP to boost ORES models fitness and performance.
  • Extending our documentation around deployment prep: wikitech:ORES/Prepare_deployment
  • Developing improved topic taxonomies. See https://github.com/halfak/wikitax

Security

• Updates:
  • Password Reset Update: Security Proposal - phab:T237755 - complete
  • Security Review For Page Content Service route /page/mobile-html - phab:T227114 - nearly complete
  • A Large-scale Study of Wikipedia Users' Quality of Experience: data release - phab:T217318 - nearly complete
  • Security Review for whichbrowser/parser - phab:T239259 - in progress
  • Data Map (GDPR) update period closes 12/6

Wikimedia DE

Wikidata

• Blocked by:
  • Release Engineering: Setting up Pipeline CI job for wikibase/vuejs-components repository: gerrit:551829