2019-01-16

Callouts

Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
SRE: RI needs your input on T206504 (specifically https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206504#4859812 ) regarding storing edit task suggestions in Redis
Performance/CorePlatform: DBAs want to do a Parser Cache TTL increase. We might increase the TTL back from 22 days to 30 days soon - ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210992 )
Anyone: SRE needs help setting up a Beta Feature for PHP7 migration. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213934
Release Engineering: No train during All Hands (week of January 28)
Release Engineering blocking Research https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/483225

Audiences

Contributors

Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

Blocked by: Looking for Reviewers for Namespace Blocks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179110
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- Enabled Partial Blocks to Italian Wikipedia! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210444
- Starting Device Blocking Investigation. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213351
- Changing new user password requirements.

Editing

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Growth

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Language

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- ContentTranslation v2 going to be default for all users with this week's train.
- Language team will reachout to Security and Performance for ExternalGuidance extension reviews.

Readers

iOS native app

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Readers Web

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- Summary: Advanced Mobile Contributions is underway and MobileFrontend Webpackication frontend architectural goals are nearly complete.

- Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):

- - Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
    - Page/talk toggle v1 T212216
    - Create AMC edit tag T212959
    - Build AMC opt-in toggle T211197

- - Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
    - Webpackify mobile.options, mobile.init, mobilediff, and userlogin T213112
    - Webpackify Special:Uploads T213298
    - Webpackify mobile.special.watchlist.scripts T212823
    - Webpackify mobile.mediaViewer T210209
    - Webpackify notifications T213111
    - Drawers and Overlays should not auto-append themselves T209129

- - Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
    - Deploy to enwiki TBD T210554

- - Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T212518 T211724 T213775 T149909

- Desktop website (Vector, Popups)

- - Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
    - WMDE reference previews are in progress https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews

- PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
  - Remaining work tracked in deploy Proton T181084

Readers Infrastructure

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- SRE: RI needs your input on T206504 (specifically https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206504#4859812 ) regarding storing edit task suggestions in Redis
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- Building new APIs to support the App Editor Tasks initiative ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212793 )
  - Counts of edits meeting specific criteria: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212795
  - Suggested entities/articles for adding descriptions: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206504
- Maps: Preparing maps1003 for OS upgrade to stretch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/483798/

Multimedia

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Parsing

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UI Standardization

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Technology

Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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- CentralNotice
  - deploying bunch of patches that we'd held back during Big English, and which were again delayed last week due to what turned out to be a bug in the Translate extension.
  - taking another look at how to make the deployment less of a headache for train conductors.
- CiviCRM
  - Reducing volume of email for recurring donors
- Paymentswiki
  - Still working on upgrade to PHP7 & Mediawiki 1.31
  - Adding geolocation to the 'Form chooser' page

MediaWiki Core Platform

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Performance

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- Reverted ruwiki navtiming/survey sampling rate, as very active editors were starting to talk about blocking the survey altogether
- Wrote guide for xhgui upgrades. – https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Performance/Runbook/Webperf-tools_services
- xhgui: Deployed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/483048/
- Attended the W3C perf design meeting

Release Engineering

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- Code Health Metrics https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/475470
- Research https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/483225
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- Code Health:
  - Code Health Metrics and SonarQube https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/133
- Train Health:
  - Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.12 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206666 - no problemo
  - This week: 1.33.0-wmf.13 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206667 - no problemo (so far)
  - Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.14 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206668 - last train before All Hands (no train that week)

Research

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- RelEng please review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/483225
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- Preparing to run the third round of data collection for CitationUsage: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212937
- Generate article recommendations in Hadoop for use in roduction: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210844
- Deploy the recommendation API changes to production: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212945

Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

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- Added capability to search multiple filetypes at once: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212776
- Fixed timeouts in prefix search suggestions: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212455
- Handling WDQS issue with allocation limits: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213212
- Added a new keyboard shortcuts to WDQS UI, for those systems where Ctrl-Space is already taken - Ctrl-Alt-Space and Alt-Enter: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203320
- Deploying tuned wikidata search parameters soon: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193701
- de, fr, es next: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213105
- Fixed error with too large offset+limit on search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213745
- Created configs for multi-instance Blazegraph, moving categories namespace to separate Blazegraph instance: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213212
- Fixed issue with duplicated normalized triples in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213213
- Working on data corruption issues in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210044
- Working on ES 6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282
- Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654
- Working on “wrong keyboard” detection: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138958
- Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108

Security

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Updates: All active assigned tasks are being worked by Engineers

Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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- ??: Need help setting up a beta feature for migration to php 7. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213934
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- Performance/CorePlatform: DBAs want to do a Parser Cache TTL increase. We might increase the TTL back from 22 days to 30 days soon - ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210992 )

Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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Multi-Content Revisions

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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