2015-07-01

Reading

We were planning to release to production this week, but TSG found a significant bug, and also due to a couple other elusive bugs, we'll go through another Beta cycle, and release to production next week.

Version 4.1.6 is delayed due to being re-uploaded (now build version 150). We hope it passes Apple review within the next 5-10 business days.

Blockers:
- James has a new, ongoing SoS meeting conflict, which Discovery will resolve in order to remain represented.
Blocking: none (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/)
- Ops is depending on us for multi datacenter work
Updates:
- Preparing for Wikimania
- Experimenting with the *Easy* tag in Phabriactor for community involvement
- Labs map service is down
- Team roles are shuffling this week

vital signs now has the new official pageview definition, updated daily: http://vital-signs.wmflabs.org/
Event Logging on Kafka work continues, load tests without parallelization show that we can't go beyond 1000 events per second with our current setup
we continue to work on dashboards and fix broken dashboards, come to us if you need help with that (example: http://extdist-reportcard.wmflabs.org/ )
mobile dashboard has been down for a while, we are going to split up "reading" from "editing" graphs, the editing graphs will stay disabled for now
conversation about unique identifiers continues, ops, security, and execs all looped in

Content Translation:
- 8000 articles!
- Deployed in all wikipedias except enwiki (enwiki on 07/07)
- Yandex coming up soon!
No dependencies.

CSS-based cite customization patch (in development since October 2014) is now merged and scheduled to be deployed on Monday (July 6).
Arlo working on implementing addition HTML normalizations (behind the scrubWikitext API flag) for edited HTML it receives from clients to minimize html2wt scenarios that require <nowiki> protections. They are being documented at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Normalizations
Posted an update on the wikitech-l and engineering lists last Thursday (June 25th) about Parsoid's roundtripping numbers: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-June/082213.html

Andrew Green's Central Notice refactor continues: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100686
- "ending up as a very big change, and includes a huge amount of cruft cleanout and reorganization of code... Since it runs everywhere and impacts performance, we probably should get input from other teams"
- Got some great feedback from Performance and Mobile, would welcome more from them or anyone else
Putting together the last backend pieces for fundraising in Brazil, starting work on additional payment methods
Working on importing payments from Square Cash
More refactoring of our CiviCRM modules

Finished "Day 8" of LiquidThreads -> Flow conversions (250 additional pages)
Converted all of Wikipedia_talk namespace on Catalan Wikipedia to Flow (except for certain exceptions like subpages); all new pages in this namespace will also be Flow
Continued preparatory work on search
Continued work on OOjs UI