Multimedia/Standup notes/2018/April

2019-04-30

Ramsey

in the San Francisco office today. posting now in case I can't get to the office in time for standup
busy with meetings all day, including scoping out the design research project with George

Matthias

Not around - holiday today & tomorrow (- a bit of work on UW EventLogging)

Cormac

still nothing from addshore on the search patch, pinged him again
figured out (with David's help) search scoring, and how to tune it for commons when we deploy
mailed bawolff about that volunteer patch that I reviewed (it looks ok, except for one odd little thing I want to check with Brian)
starting work on writing qualifiers to the search index https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193407

Keegan

About half of the feedback in on captions from the signup, so I'm chasing down the missing feedback

Mark

Hell of a weekend
Continuing Wikibase frontend investigations...

Pam

Working on design consultation (MLC on FP)
Working meeting with George et al the latter half of today

2018-04-26

Cormac

depicts search path has +1 from Stas, waiting for input from addshore
looking at how search results are scored https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192535
code review
tomorrow: continue to investigate scoring, also 10% time

Matthias

Changing label to caption on File page only

Ramsey

will be giving a brief presentation for Bring Your Family to Work day
working out hopefully final final arrangements for George Oates meeting Monday
back to depicts

Mark

Started investigating the Wikibase code...nasty bit of work but it'll have to get fixed
Continuing today, some meetings, hopefully minimal distractions otherwise

Pam

Finalizing MLC on FP
Tomorrow attending a pro-dev workshop

2018-04-25

Mark

Working from the coffee shop today because my landlord notified me this morning of the loud workmen who will be around all day (and that they were shutting off water/sewer)
Getting to inbox zero: Priceless
Starting in on interface changes, not sure how that will go, seems like the frontend code for Wikibase is about as complicated as the backend.

Keegan

Soliciting signups for caption prototype review, managing that process
The Wikidata thing: Léa asked property creators about stuff for Lexemes, they responded kind of how I thought. Gotta translate that into our work and organize around it.

Pam

Revising MLC on FP for design consultation
MLC A/B Survey was deployed yesterday

Cormac

making more changes to search patch based on Stas's input ... think I'm nearly there
talked to the search team about how to handle qualifiers, have an idea that will work for a first stab at least (and have their agreement)

Matthias

Label -> captions working, but...

Amanda

Did the things yesterday, except bother Keegan
First draft of the quarterly check in deck
Review Depicts specs
Update email

Ramsey

Yesterday: furiously worked to get contract stuff in for George Oates. Seems to be working.
Will need to arrange logistics for the actually meeting with George on Monday.
Shared the depicts v1 spec with the team, will continue to work on that

2018-04-24

Mark

Patches merged, fixed up, etc. - good momentum
Working on some UI stuff hopefully between meetings and interrupts

Amanda

MCR...dealt with!?! fake news news from a certain point of view
Support Carolyn with Hackathon design
Review GLAM ontology kickstarting proposal
Katie needs a wmflab project
Haz passport, need Hackathon tickets

Ramsey

trying to get George Oates locked in on a contract
continuing the depicts spec (almost done!)

Pam

Working w/ the WMDE designers was fun/useful, and WMCON was great
ALL THE EMAILS
Wrap up tasks from WMCON
Coworking with JMo today to get the survey out the door
Have to sort through MLC on FP feedback from Alex and Sandra

Matthias

Labels to captions

Cormac

spent most of the day trying to understand a comment Stas had made on one of my search patches :/
started reviewing that volunteer patch
next - talk to search team about qualifiers

2018-04-23

=== Keegan ====
* Feeling a little less blah, catching up on stuff

Ramsey

lot of weekend emails to catch up on
hopefully moving forward with finalizing George Oates stuff
made a lot of progress with Depicts Friday, hoping to have a doc to share tomorrow
decent number of meetings

Amanda

MCR breeds more MCR...
- Have y'all talked to the MCR engineers about what you need when? -> Nupe, probably need to set up a meeting, can talk about it in backlog grooming
getting Hackathon tickets

Mark

Checked on patches - fixed something for Matthias, I think - will dig deeper in a minute
Stepping into the new work on changing interfaces
Cleared out extracurricular #1 yesterday, #s 2 and 3 are close, should be much more focused by the hackathon

Matthias

Renaming labels -> captions

Cormac

Submitted a few more updates to the latest search patch, had feedback from Stas and David
Gotta chase up WMDE for their 2c too
oh ... and could do with CR for this one https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/426944/

2018-04-19

Matthias

I'll probably miss today's meetings (girlfriend going to hospital (it's probably nothing) and I'll join her)

Working on MediaInfo page; renaming label->caption

Pam

Successful design sprint with WMDE design team today
Going to be giving more full update of designs/survey at desinh:dev chat
Conference begins tomorrow

Keegan

Very unmotivated yesterday and today
So pretty much the same stuff

Mark

Meeting day was not great for Getting Shit Done
Today looks better - need to take another pass through patches then start making bold choices about what to do with new design stuff

Ramsey

hopefully closing out the prep phase of the George Oates thing today
still trying to find time to dig more into depicts

Amanda

MCR resolved today!
chat with mobile devs re hackathon
case doc for federation

Cormac

moved one of yesterday's patches to a different repo based on Stas's advice
got feedback on the moved patch from David Causse, tomorrow will be working on that (and 10% time)

2018-04-18

Matthias

First minor progress on renaming label->caption

Ramsey

Only six meetings today :P
Attempting to close out this George Oates thing so we can get started with her
Discussing MCR issues with Amanda et al.

Mark

It never occurred to me to count the meetings but I'm tied with Ramsey today
Two prongs of my work for the foreseeable future
- Shepherding stuff through CR (quickly) and deploying on labs
- Meanwhile, investigating changes to Wikibase core for editing/viewing tools
Predicted interrupts: Trying to herd cats during breaks (sigh, organizing) and possibly cutting off many hairs

Pam

Today:

   * Visited WMDE office, had a tour
   * MLC UI copy: Updating some links on the survey

Tomorrow:

   * Design Sprint with WMDE design team on a to-do list builder
   * Hope to grab time with folks re: Advanced Search
   * MLC on FP: Gathering internal feedback on V2. Would appreciate feedback when the team gets a chance in advance of our design:dev meeting: https://wikimedia.invisionapp.com/share/VZGT8KX93DG

Keegan

I have some logins to test the caption prototype, so I need to figure out how to distribute them and then collect feedback
Check up on Wikidata and property creators

Cormac

two patches submitted for searching on statements - one for writing the data, one for finding based on the data
probably working on feedback from those tomorrow

2018-04-17

Mark

Spinning back up after surprise holiday
Should we reschedule our planning meeting (missed yesterday) for today or tomorrow?

Ramsey

Meetingpalooza (seriously, 9 meetings today)

Pam

Yesterday, prepped for WMCon (GLAM research)
Leaving for airport later this morning (arriving in Berlin @ 8:30)
Will be prepping for a design sprint with the WMDE designers (on a "to-do" list builder... should be interesting)

Amanda

MCR again
Work on the federation case doc

Cormac

put in a patch for MediaInfo, which is the first stage of the backend depicts search work
working on stage 2 now https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192345

Matthias

Set up EventLogging locally
Back to MediaInfo page

2018-04-12

Keegan

Conflicting meeting w/Lea and Sandra during the retro, so will miss most of the retro
Some meetings around Wikidata
Half day, vet trip later for a kitty

Mark

Laptop pretty much solid at the moment, we'll see if I missed anything
CR from Cormac - thanks - will look into some things and reapply for attention
Interrupt later this afternoon for an appointment

Pam

Finally shared out MLC on FP designs. Feedback here: https://wikimedia.invisionapp.com/share/VZGT8KX93DG
- Woohoo!!
Focusing on survey design today (coworking with JMo)
Also doing workshop prep for WMCON *and* design sprint with WMDE designers (today/tomorrow)

Ramsey

Creating a new presentation for the George Oates stuff
Reviewing Pam's new MLC on FP designs
Meetings
Research

Matthias

No updates

Amanda

MCR again
- Gantt chart again
- Will bother you Mark, Ramsey

Cormac

mostly code reviews today
some useful stuff for depicts already seems to exist, digging on that
will be afk for a little while tomorrow cos I've a doc's appointment

2018-04-11

Mark

Meeting day!
Laptop setup continuing between meetings
Taking another pass through my patches to see if anything needs attention
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/421318
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/421612

Keegan

Meeting day as well
Figuring out where to begin with social issues between wikis that have a commom purpose, aspiration, and philosophy

Amanda

Every day is a meeting day
Still working on MCR :( Will bother Mark (& Ramsey?)

Pam

Tons of meetings today, but sharing out Multilingual Captions on File Page for feedback
A/B survey design

Matthias

UW is not really logging anything useful right now
But is set up quite well - adding new things should be pretty painless
Just need to know what kind of things we want to log/questions we want it to answer
Looks like I'm not going to Barcelona after all - I misread Adam's earlier email, which was about next year's hackathon :)

Ramsey

MEETING DAY
email catchup for various things
research when I have the time

Cormac

fixed the stuff on labs
still digging on depicts
I guess I oughta do some code reviewing on Matthias's UploadWizard patches tomorrow

2018-04-10

Mark

Laptop setup continues slowly
Patches for file page stuff updated - could use another look
Will be absent some portion of today to renew my driver's license

Matthias

Updated prod SSH key & had to fix some SSH config after that
UW eventlogging
- Can't find existing dashboards, but I seem to remember them being broken anyway...
- Pretty much all datasets stopped gathering data
  - Need to check if script generating datasets from captured data is broken, or if we're no longer collecting data (stopped/broken) - tomorrow

Amanda

All MCR today :(

Pam

Same as yesterday, but making progress:

   * Finishing up revision of UI of multilingual captions on file page

Designing A/B survey in Qualtrics

Ramsey

Got a surprise task from Toby for tomorrow
Getting closer (I think) on the George Oates engagement preparations
Helping with discussions about Wikibase Federation
Will try (again) to find times for 'depicts'

Cormac

elastic search stopped working on vagrant and sent me down a rabbit hole for a while
fiddling about with federation on the labs instance, it's actually really running federated wikibase now which is wasn't before
also loaded in lots of the data from wikidata to make it work
writing search indices a little weird when federation is in flight, looking into that
scrum of scrums tomorrow?

2018-04-09

Cormac

missing standup due to an appointment with the ear-doctor (loud music is bad for your ears!) ... might be back in time for planning/grooming, depends on traffic and what the doc has to say
Friday - talking to David a lot about seach, looking into how indices and queries are constructed
Monday - found a bug with the search index when a statement is added, trying to get data on the labs instance into a state where I can replicate it

Matthias

Labels vs captions

Mark

New laptop arrived, doing setup
Patches up for new-file editing, will make a run through them after laptop setup is done to reply to feedback (if any), please review when available

Pam

Revising UI of multilingual captions on file page
Designing A/B survey in Qualtrics
Have an afternoon doctor's appt, so will work later into the evening to make up for that

Ramsey

further discussions of the George Oates engagement
product meetings
going through Chelsy's research on renaming metrics

Keegan

Catching up from end of last week
See what's up with the file name trial balloon

2018-04-05

Mark

Progress slow yesterday, better today until late afternoon.

Keegan =

Posting the trial balloon about file names to the SDC talk page
Out most of today and all of tomorrow for funeral stuff

Ramsey

I got older
- This is a good start to every update
Created new ticket for Chelsy to look into data related to file renames on Commons (frequency, reasons, etc)
Working on moving that George Oates engagement forward somehow
sketching out some high level ideas for depicts

Matthias

Labels/captions

Cormac

Was it your birthday Ramsey? **today! <- happy birthday!
had a good chat with search team and as a result I've been ...
reading elastic search docs
Macklemore was fantastic fyi
- +1 - seen them a few months ago

Pam

Catching up on work: revising UI of multilingual captions on file page
Will follow up with JMo on A/B test

2018-04-04

Cormac

will miss standup today cos I gotta leave early to go to a Macklemore gig in The Big City with wife and kids \o/ (I nearly had a heart attack just now when ticketmaster sent me an email saying 'how was Macklemore last night? please review the show' but checked my tickets and it is on tonight like I thought (phew))
more reading docs and code about search, gonna drop into the search team's meeting at 1600UTC to ask a few questions

Keegan

Death in my wife's family - distractions from work, having to pick people up at the airport, etc. Keeping me up and down from the computer the next few days
Putting together a thing to run by Commons about filenames before we take it to the broader community
Newsletter went out yesterday.

Ramsey

Started efforts to have the Facebok/Oculus team help out with implementing the GLB 3D format
will chat today with Dario about a project grant review
will attempt to find some time to work on semi-formal depicts requirements
still working on finalizing approach for George Oates engagement

Mark

Probably not much progress today because meetings
Getting into the file page new-entity workflow tomorrow

Matthias

Making progress on labels vs captions
- Do we care about the MediaInfo page (now that Mark's moving the interface to File page)?

2018-04-03

Mark

Patches rebased and updated a bit to reflect reality. Wikibase patch ready to go, going through some extra work on the MediaInfo patch.
(PL?) Matthias, Cormac: I currently short-circuit the MediaInfo code unless there's already an entity for the file. Should we automatically create the entity? Should it be automatically populated? Can we create an entity without any data in it? Or should I redouble my efforts to find out how Wikibase does a new entity's page? (Ramsey: this would not delay launch of what I have on wmflabs, but may cause unexpected behavior on new file pages)
Battles with the work laptop continue

Pam

Making progress on MLC on FP
Still need to find remaining images for A/B test

Matthias

Working on semantic choices: label vs caption

Ramsey

email! fantastic times
picking up "Future of Commons" / George Oates discussion
meetings

Amanda

Tackling SDC phab board, intereseted in if/how y'all use it
Review draft session plan for WMCon
Update email
Will nudge Lydia re federation again

Cormac

reviewing some stuff
looking into Depicts searching (basing on Stas's patches for Label/Description)

2018-04-02

Keegan

Meetings, email -- Monday stuff
Close out the coyright/licensing conversation
Working with two other CLs this week on the File name replacement draft
Sending out the SDC newsletter either today or tomorrow (probably tomorrow)

Pam

Multilingual Captions on File Page
Finish finding images for A/B test

Mark

Laptop issues this morning, will probably put in an OIT request for a replacement
Task planning, everyone's favorite day
Probably will get to the patches today and deploy sometime tomorrow (pending a second pair of eyes)

Ramsey

Picking up a lot of loose threads from last week
doing some JK cover stuff