2018-05-23

Callouts

Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
Research is looking for reviewers of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/432534/

Audiences

Readers

iOS native app

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- Continuing work on tech debt release, 5.8.2 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3358/ )

Android native app

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Readers Web

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Quarterly goal dependency update:
- Outcome 1, Objective 4: Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption
  - Reading Web depends on SRE, RelEng, Reading Infra

Readers Infrastructure

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- Publishing reading list browser extensions this week (at least for Chrome and FF, Safari probably later): https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Reading_list_browser_extension
- Running announcement in the apps for above starting this Friday (for one week).
- A couple of changes to media endpoint 1.1.0 will be deployed on Wednesday: description is now an object with html and text fields; added license.code field
Quarterly goal dependency update:
- Outcome 1, Objective 4: Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption
  - Reading Web depends on SRE, RelEng, Reading Infra
- Increase code sharing of client apps by coalescing and moving more logic to the server
  - Reading Infra depends on Parsing, Services

Maps

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Updates:
- Testing maps on Debian Stretch as part of reinstall and cartography update
- Figuring out how to have a Jessie and a Stretch build with scap

Multimedia

Updates
- OOUI work on WIkibaseMediaInfo and UploadWizard
- UI work on search
- backend work on search indexing
Quarterly goal dependency update:
- Objective 3.1 Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
  - SDC depends on Multimedia,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research
- Objective 2.1 Integrate structured file captions into search
  - SDC depends on Search Platform, Multimedia
- Segment 4, Outcome 2: Develop a better understanding of existing needs for Structured Commons- T171252
  - Research depends on Multimedia

Contributors

Community Tech

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- GlobalPreferences being rolled out

Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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Parsing

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- Tidy -> RemexHtml: final switch planned for June 27th / July 11th (to be finalized)

Quarterly goal dependency update:
- Goal 3.6 Support work towards unifying MediaWiki's parser implementations, in liaison with Technology's MediaWiki team
  - Parsing depends on MediaWiki Platform, Services
  - Ongoing as above wrt Tidy.
- Increase code sharing of client apps by coalescing and moving more logic to the server

Increase code sharing of client apps by coalescing and moving more logic to the server.

- - Reading Infra depends on Parsing, Services
- Nothing that we are aware of from RI.

Outcome 2: Objective 1: Revision storage scaling

- - Services depends on SRE, Parsing

Collaboration

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Language

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Updates:
- Work on ContentTranslation Version 2 continue.
- Had successful Hackathon!
Quarterly goal dependency update:
- Goal 3.1 Improve and consolidate our unified editing platform so that it's great on all devices
  - Language depends on Editing

Audiences Design

UI Standardization

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- Hackathon aftermath, evaluating accessibility issues
- OOUI – no release this week, but continued work on Special:Preferences transformed to OOUI and related tasks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180538
- Work on a few, minor UI/UX issues in AdvancedSearch with WMDE team
- Vector spring cleanup, removing special treatment for IE 6

Technology

Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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- Fixing bugs on Ingenico Connect API integration discovered in 1 hour test
- Still working on backend pipeline for CentralNotice EventLogging stats
- Testing new CiviCRM version
- Tweaking contact display

MediaWiki Platform

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Quarterly goal dependency update:
- Goal 3.6 Support work towards unifying MediaWiki's parser implementations, in liaison with Technology's MediaWiki team
  - Parsing depends on MediaWiki Platform, Services
- Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
  - SDC depends on Multimedia/,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research
- Objective 1.1 Assist with deploying MultiContent Revisions on Commons

T174022 Implement multi-content revisions, T174023 Implement MCR storage layer, T174045 DB schema migration for MCR, T174044 Deploy MCR storage layer, T174043Deploy Multi-Content Revisions

- - SDC depends on MediaWiki Platform, WMDE

Performance

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Release Engineering

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Quarterly goal dependency update:
- Outcome 1, Objective 4: Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption
  - Reading Web depends on SRE, RelEng, Reading Infra

Research

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- Creating a web app to collect more section title mappings: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195354
- Gather data for creating article creating models: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190774
Quarterly goal dependency update:
- Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
  - SDC depends on Multimedia/,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research
- Segment 4, Outcome 2: Develop a better understanding of existing needs for Structured Commons- T171252
  - Research depends on Multimedia

Scoring Platform

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- Hackathon and offsite
  - Simple ORES gadgets (item quality for Wikidata, draft topic for English Wikipedia)
    - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:EpochFail/ItemQuality.js and .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail/DraftTopic.js
    - Goal is to inspire new tools :) Please try out these simple tools.
  - Advanced edit quality support for Serbian & Bosnian support coming
  - Article quality for Basque wiki is coming

Search Platform

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Hackathon Reindexing Wikidata to add string & external ID properties to search index Deep category search to be enabled on all wikis starting next week: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194260 Working on Polish analyzer: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186046 Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108 Working on Lexeme fulltext search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189739

Quarterly goal dependency update:
- Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
  - SDC depends on Multimedia/,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research
- *Objective 2.1 Integrate structured file captions into search
  - SDC depends on Search Platform, Multimedia

Security

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Quarterly goal dependency update:
- Goal 3.6: Support work towards unifying MediaWiki's parser implementations, in liaison with Technology's MediaWiki team
  - Parsing depends on MediaWiki Platform, Services

Services

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Quarterly goal dependency update:
- Increase code sharing of client apps by coalescing and moving more logic to the server.
  - Reading Infra/Parsing, Services
- Goal 3.6 Support work towards unifying MediaWiki's parser implementations, in liaison with Technology's MediaWiki team
  - Parsing depends on MediaWiki Platform, Services

Outcome 2: Objective 1: Revision storage scaling

- - Services depends on SRE, Parsing

Site Reliability Engineering

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- Collaboration for flow, T172025
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- None
Updates:
- Preparing for proton deployment next week
- Hackathon was nice, we could move graphoid to kubernetes this quarter
- SRE will have an offsite during 3rd week of June, expect minimal availability for goals that week.
Quarterly goal dependency update:
- Outcome 1, Objective 4: Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption
  - Reading Web depends on SRE, RelEng, Reading Infra
- Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
  - SDC depends on Multimedia/,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research

Outcome 2: Objective 1: Revision storage scaling

- - Services depends on SRE, Parsing

Wikidata

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   Nothing

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   No one we hope

Updates:

   LexData is live and running on production, we released today 6 hours ago.
   Thanks for Stas for the help yesterday! You saved our release, much appreciated

Quarterly goal dependency update:
- Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
  - SDC depends on Multimedia/,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research
- Objective 1.1 Assist with deploying MultiContent Revisions on Commons

T174022 Implement multi-content revisions, T174023 Implement MCR storage layer, T174045 DB schema migration for MCR, T174044 Deploy MCR storage layer, T174043Deploy Multi-Content Revisions

- - SDC depends on MediaWiki Platform, WMDE

German Technical Wishlist

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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