Scrum of scrums/2018-20-24

2018-10-24

Callouts

• Technical Engagement
  • Google Code In <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in> starts on Tuesday 2018-10-23 and runs until 2018-12-13. GCI is a contest to encourage and inspire pre-university students to begin participating in open source development. More mentors and tasks are needed! Read mentor instructions on mediawiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors> or contact Andre Klapper to get involved.
• Release Engineering
  • revision-create event date format has changed (we think) -- new format example "2018-10-24T00:28:24.162300+00:00" -- if you know anything chime in on task please https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207817
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/EventBus/+/468482 is likely the culprit

Audiences

Contributors

Community Tech

• Blocked by:
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• Updates:
  • TemplateWizard was released as a beta feature to all wikis

Anti-Harassment Tools

• Blocked by:
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• Updates:
  • Releasing Partial Blocks to beta. Some tests failed on gate-and-submit CI process (specifically with postgres), we're dealing with those.
  • Discovered an inconsistency with the database layer, patch pending on that: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/469324/

Editing

• Blocked by:
• Blocking: Growth team on cross collaboration instrumentation
  • Updates:
  • Added VisualEditorFeatureUse schema

Growth

• Blocked by:
  • We need security review of the GrowthExperiments extension https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207798
  • RelEng figuring out how to unblock and merge
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/468171
  • Editing on cross collaboration instrumentatio

• Updates:
  • Copyvio bot logging trial concluded on enwiki should be live on Thursday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/EranBot_3
  • PageViews schema is on meta wiki https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:PageViews and we will start testing in beta this week or early next week https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents/+/464432

Language

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: None
• Updates:
  • ContentTranslation v2 work continue.
  • Work on mediawiki-html-sanitizer library: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-html-sanitizer

Readers

iOS native app

• Blocked by:
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• Updates:
  • 6.1 with wikidata description editing & revert notifications in beta (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1-narwhal-on-a-bumper-car/)
  • 6.1.1 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1.1-narwhal-on-a-magic-pumpkin/) will be a bug fix & tech debt release
  • mobile editing research

Android native app

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Readers Web

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• Updates:
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
      • Complete webpack migration of mobile.startup T206169
      • Collapse mobile.search.util into mobile.startup T206027
      • Migrate PageGateway tests to node-qunit T206226
      • Use NPM for Hogan v2.0.0 T205128
    • Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
      • A/B test will conclude soon T200792
    • Maintenance and bug fixes T207423 T207480
    • Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
      • Design and product continuing special pages work in Minerva
  • PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
    • Remaining work tracked in T186748
    • Rewrite Queue to Promises T204055
    • Upgrade Puppeteer to v1.9.0 T207416
  • SEO:
    • Add Schema.org Article JSON-LD to main namespace pages T198946
    • Server side split test T206868
  • Product and management in Portland.

Readers Infrastructure

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Multimedia

• Updates
  • Hiring continues
  • SDoC - some progress on beta cluster deployment
  • SDoC - discussion on data modelling continues
  • SDoC - usability study on multi-lingual captions
  • SDoC - 'depicts' upload wizard

Parsing

• Blocked by: No one
• Blocking: Hopefully no one :-)
• Updates:
  • "Untidy" parser output is being deprecated
  • Most system messages are being tidied in this week's train (and next week)
  • If you see unexpected UI changes (probably extra whitespace) let us know
  • HTML DOM structure might change as well (if you are doing screen scraping)
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/topic:deprecate-wgtidy

UI Standardization

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Technology

Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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• Updates:
  • Dealing with some odd PayPal behavior regarding legacy subscriptions
  • Working out county-specific issues with card processor in Latin America campaign
  • Deployed new batch-mode payment spreadsheet importer
  • Preparing 3 proposals for contractor work on CentralNotice - live banner previews, campaign fallback and sub-national targeting, and calendar display.

MediaWiki Core Platform

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Performance

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Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Train is blocked on group0
    • WDQS problems
    • revision-create event date format has changed (we think) -- new format example "2018-10-24T00:28:24.162300+00:00" -- if you know anything chime in on task please
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/EventBus/+/468482 is likely the culprit
• Blocking:
  • Growth needs support on how to unblock and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/468171
• Updates:

Research

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: None
• Updates:
  • Writing a paper that researches Wikipedia section alignments across languages: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Expanding_Wikipedia_articles_across_languages/Inter_language_approach
  • Working on taking the Recommendation API to production: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/services/recommendation-api/+/450601/
  • Stopping data collection for citation usage schemas on 10/25: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/465418/

Scoring Platform

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: None
• Updates:
  • Redis task tracker is live now, ores responses is now cut to half
  • More work on upgrading to celery 4 is ongoing

Search Platform

• Blocked by: breakage in the updater (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207817) being handled
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • WDQS Updater incident: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20181024-WDQS - working on it
  • Fixed issue with Lexeme data not being properly updated in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207673
  • Fixed search satisfaction browser tests: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206232
  • Working on “wrong keyboard layout” detection: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138958
  • 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 query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108

Security

• Blocked by:
• Blocking: T207798 Security review for GrowthExperiments extension opened 10/23
• Updates:

Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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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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