Scrum of scrums/2015-05-27

2015-05-27

Wikidata

• Updates
  • Attended the Hackathon and did fancy stuff - http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2015_05_23
  • Arbitrary access has been deployed to envoyage, fawiki, huwiki
  • SPARQL endpoint (thank you Stas!!) - https://wdqs-beta.wmflabs.org/
• Blocking
  • None
• Blocked by
  • Add wbc_entity_usage table and wb_changes_subscription table to XML dumps (needs review and merge by ArielGlenn)
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98743
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98742

Technical Operations

• Conversations about the etcd cluster in eqiad
• Scaling puppetmasters @ EQIAD

Blocking:

• • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97638 done (awaiting feedback)
• Blocked by
  • None

Search and discovery

• No blockers
• Nothing blocked: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
• Updates
  • API docs (WDQS)
  • Metrics (dashboard, logging)
  • Early-stage analytics (usage, performance)
  • Bug fixing and improvements (WDQS, Cirrus, metrics dashboard)
  • Maps/graphs hardware quest https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97638
  • Hiring

Language

• CX work continue, deployments continue:
  • Reaching 4000 articles mark!
• Who can look into broken tags filter? See: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100439

Parsing

• More code cleanup work last week -- we've done a lot of that this quarter.
• Spent half a day last week updating Parsoid docs -- work-in-progress.
• Heads-up: we would like to start deprecating the Parsoid v1 API -- Scott is working to get VE and VirtualRestService to use Parsoid v2 API only.
• subst: support for translclusions has landed in the Parsoid API (both v1 & v2) -- will get deployed today. VE and other editing clients could use this API support to implement PSTs.
• After some more work on the roundtrip testing script to eliminate false positive semantic error reports, at this point, 99.93% of pages roundtrip correctly without any semantic diffs. A large fraction of the remaining 0.07% diffs are because of broken wikitext. So, we are close to being done with the toughest part of the long-tail in roundtripping wikitext, and can now once again focus on rendering accuracy so that Parsoid HTML can be the default read HTML.

iOS

• Working on releasing 4.1.4
• Had good discussions about apps CI at hackathon, will follow up w/ next steps soon

Web

• Jon Robson working with Gilles on performance improvements

Fundraising Tech

• Hackathon cleaned up some quirks
• What's the plan for translation in Mustache? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97149
• Cache refactor continues
• CentralNotice mixins
• Donation form error display
• Starting on internal dashboard a/b testing results

Analytics

• Event Logging more stable now after last patch, no problems since deployment
• Team focusing on the Pageview API, Uniques, and moving Event Logging to Kafka
• Dashiki refactor improves modularity and adds a clean build system