Wikimedia Services/Meetings/2015-02-03-MA
Phab tasks[edit]
Tentative agenda[edit]
- Short intro + status: RESTBase && MA
- MA current data- and workflow
- Mobile service brainstorm
Action items[edit]
- Wait for RESTBase to be deployed [Owner: All of us, but especially Monte]
- Figure out exactly the data and workflow that we'd like to have [Owner: Adam/Dmitry]
- Design the API that would ideally serve the mobile app's use cases [Owner: Adam/Dmitry, with Services Team]
Notes[edit]
- Would be a benefit to share transforms between IOS & Android
- Want generally uniform rendering
- CSS, JS rendering on mobile
- Currently transforms done in JS on DOM, can reuse if using JS environment like node
- Ownership: MA owns transforms, services helps to wrap in service
- section loading: would be good to preserve lead section / rest split
- maybe not with SPDY
- Unversioned/changing APIs are a major source of client-side breakage
Wishlist for service[edit]
- image metadata for all images in article
- Arbitrary Wikidata properties (not just description)
- May be possible since RESTBase can cache the result of the query
- We need to make sure not to fall into the trap of not pushing people to build scalable APIs