Scrum of scrums/2021-02-24

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2021-02-24[edit]

Callouts[edit]

No updates[edit]

CommTech, Editing, Android

No notes provided[edit]

Prod Infra, Parsing, Language, Inuka, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Quality & Test,

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping[edit]

  • Updates:
    • from retro ideas to try:
      • Bolding items to read aloud +JF +TC
      • relaxing the start time
      • Template
        • Perhaps add a contact point (email, url, office hours, whatever) for easy reaching out to teams when a bullet point seems interesting. +GG +JF +TC

Product[edit]

Anti-Harassment Tools[edit]

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Thank you:
  • Updates:
    • Deploying a new logging feature for SecurePoll to votewiki - logs when Admins access private user data

Growth[edit]

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Thank you:
    • SRE and Search for their help with Add Link
  • Updates:
    • Work on Add Link continues https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
      • hoping to enable on Beta this week
      • opening up the mwaddlink service to external traffic
      • new CirrusSearch maintenance script UpdateWeightedTags for setting things like ORES topics in a local dev environment
    • Deploying GrowthExperiments to more wikis
    • Improvements to mentorship, including a new {{#mentor}} keyword for querying the name of the user's mentor

iOS native app[edit]

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Thank you:
    • Harry Marcus for upgrading our build machine while in the SF office yesterday.
  • Updates:
    • No Updates

Web[edit]

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Thank you:
  • Updates:
    • Enabling the WVUI search autocomplete widget A/B test this week
    • Continuing to work on moving and instrumenting the language button in Vector V2

Structured Data[edit]

Abstract Wikipedia[edit]

Library[edit]

  • Blocked by:
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  • Thank you:
    • Amir for helping improve our translatable messages in The Wikipedia Library
  • Updates:
    • Reviewing external PRs made by external volunteers
    • Minor fix in our GlitchTip environments
    • Working on installation of MediaWiki dev environment (Vagrant) to start work on TheWikipediaLibrary extension
      • Got some errors on installing GlobalPreferences, found a bug and will create a patch to fix it soon
      • Still getting errors when trying to install Echo – Error: /usr/local/bin/mwscript createAndPromote.php --wiki='wiki' 'Selenium Echo user b' 'vagrant' returned 255 instead of one of [0] Need some help on this
      • JamesF Advice: run composer update manually and try again
      • Thcipriani: ask in #wikimedia-releng IRC if that doesn't work

Vue.js[edit]


Technology[edit]

Fundraising Tech[edit]

Engineering Productivity[edit]

Performance[edit]

  • Blocked by:
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  • Thank you:
  • Updates:
    • Migrating web perf alerts to new alerts pipeline


Release Engineering[edit]

Search Platform[edit]

Security[edit]

  • Blocked by:
    • None
  • Blocking:
  • Thank you:
    • All, for patience and understanding as we work through resourcing challenges.
  • Updates:
    • Risk Management @ Office Hours 2/25. See Staff Calendar! Risk Owners should try to join.

Site Reliability Engineering[edit]

WMDE Technical Wishes[edit]

  • Updates:
    • Syntax highlighter bracket matching is going out to additional pilot wikis on March 1st, including wikitech and mediawiki.org - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273591
    • All of our event schemas are migrated to the new platform now.
    • Considering attempting a Vue prototype in the Popups extension.
      • Feedback: Moriel did this as a demo already, in React and Vue. Ed S. would like to see us make it extendable.

Cross-cutting[edit]