Scrum of scrums/2016-12-21

Product

Reading

iOS native app

• Last Week
  • Shipped 5.3.2 (Dynamic text size, data layer update, performance enhancements) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2281/
  • More performance enhancements & bug fixes
  • Started work on this day in history MCS endpoint
  • Started work on 5.4 (Nearby, Login updates) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/
• This week
  • Monitor 5.3.2 release, fix any remaining issues, release 5.3.3 on Thursday
  • Continue work on 5.4

Android native app

• Last week:
  • More bug fixes for new release
  • Released v2.4.184 to prod
  • Continuing Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions
• Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ):
  • Holiday
  • Work towards release of Wikidata description editing

Web

• Current Sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2405/
  • Mostly finishing up work left from last week
  • Allow users who have the NavPopups gadget to use PagePreviews
  • Start working towards Wikipedia branding on the mobile site
• Next week: chilling

Mobile Content Service (MCS)

• Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1323/query/open/
• Deployed (last week):
  • Emitted etags have double quotes now. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150886
• To be deployed next year:
  • Add additional information to file and user pages clients can use for rendering
  • Ordered news link to have "most relevant" article in a news story appear first in list
• Working on:
  • Adding isDisambiguation flag

Reading Infrastructure

• working on tech debt mostly
• not blocking
• blocked:
  • WMDE on the last API i18n patch before we can move to hard deprecation: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/321464/

Community Tech

• Blockers: None
• Blocked: Nope
• Special page for looking at page assessments data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PageAssessments is deployed to all wikis
• Wikimania scholarships app was updated for the next iteration and will be deployed in January when the deploy freeze ends
• A draft proposal about setting up a Tool Labs Standards committee: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Tool_Labs_standards_committee
• Continue to roll out improvements to Programs Dashboard

Discovery

• No blockers
• Continuing work on crosswiki searching, refactoring Special:Search and allowing extensions to define query keywords
• Added ICU folding to hewiki
• Added support for returning interwiki results driven by language detection via API: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142795
• Updated portal stats on Dec 12th (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546)
• Wikidata Query Service now supports triple pattern fragments: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/User_Manual#Linked_Data_Fragments_endpoint

Interactive

• Published Terms of Use for maps: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Maps_Terms_of_Use
• Structured data (tabular data on commons) is live, and seems to be working with minor bugs
• Fun demos:
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Weather_barchart
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Graph:US_Map_state_highlight

Editing

Collaboration

• Blockers: None
• Blocked: None
• Updates:
  • Continued work on getting new RC page finished and merged.
  • Various bug fixes, e.g. to Echo
  • Coordinating about Deferred Changes
  • Finishing up processing the Flow survey results

Technology

Services

• Blockers: none
• Updates:
  • Trending service deployed and completely functional. Check it out!
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Feed/trendingEdits
  • All scb services config deploys are on scap3 now
  • Separated API cluster from appservers cluster
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152074
  • Moved RESTBase/Parsoid background updates to codfw
  • Team availability update:
    • Marko is around until NY and on vacation the week after
    • Petr is on vacation for 2 weeks
    • Eric and Gabriel and on vacation next week

Technical Operations

• Blocked
  • By none
• Blocking
  • None
• Updates
  • Start of Q4 will probably have a DC switchover in it. Goal for Ops (and other teams) in next quarter is automating and streamlining it more
  • preliminary support for encryption when talking to backend appservers is here
  • Ubuntu Precise Pangolin will be fully phased out by end of next quarter in both labs and production. Services/apps will have to migrate or cease to be.

Fundraising Tech

• CiviCRM: data hygiene fixes
• finding and batch refunding unintended duplicate donations, brainstorming ways to prevent more
• investigated Ireland missing impressions, suspect rural network speeds are the culprit
• internal dashboard fixes
• fixed mobile style for backup payment processor

Analytics

• Culmination of 8 months of work, standard metrics computed on reconstructed mediawiki history: https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/standard-metrics/
• Newly updated mediawiki history beta pivot data cube: https://pivot.wikimedia.org/#mediawiki-history-beta
• stat1001 was replaced with thorium, and stat1001 is being decommissioned
• Thanks very much for the reviews to the mediawiki-Dashiki extension, I'll be looking to deploy that and JsonConfig to meta early next quarter (any advice appreciated, but the docs seem comprehensive)
• Starting to clean up datasets.wikimedia.org structure (adding readmes and keeping everything the same via symlinks)

Research

• Showcase featuring Tor users and Wikipedia Quality Dynamics today at 11:30AM PST, 19:30 UTC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmrlu5qTgyA