Scrum of scrums/2017-02-08

Product

Reading

iOS native app

• Last Week
  • Continued work on 5.4, released to internal Beta channel https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/
    • Refined UI, added animations, added search suggestions
    • Continued work on login
• This week
  • Continue work on 5.4
    • 2FA
    • Integrate design feedback for places, try alternate search suggestion methods

Web

• Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2460/
• Last week:
  • Page Previews fixes, schema changes.
  • Created Hindi versions of all three New Readers prototypes.
  • Deployed related pages to mobile French wikipedia stable channel.
  • Deployed related pages to mobile English wikipedia, 90% of the users.
• This week:
  • Create Reading Depth schema: T155639
  • Spikes related to problems we're trying to solve from technical, design, and product points of view: phab:T156259, phab:T157071, and phab:T157071.

Android

• Last week:
  • 2.5.18x beta release and bug fixes in progress https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155917
  • Improved multi-window support
• Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ):
  • Continue improving the offline experience

Reading Infrastructure

• working on TemplateStyles, ORES architecture review
• TemplateStyles RfC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155813
• not blocking/blocked:

Mobile Content Service (MCS)

• Kanban Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2445/
• New endpoint for Anniversaries

Community Tech

• Block cookies nearing completion (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5233 )
• Making uca-xx the default for MediaWiki installations (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47611 )
• Ongoing investigation into the architecture for Special:RangeContributions (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156318 ) (insight from SQL experts welcome!)
• Starting on rebuilding Mr. Z's popular pages report (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156856 )
• Rewriting XTools, investigation complete (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154551 )
• Porting CopyPatrol to Spanish Wikipedia (http://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155933 )
• Improving date range searches on Special:Contribs, volunteer effort (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120733 )
• Enabling echo on loginwiki (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157105 ) as part of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T11838
• New Wikimedia Cloud Services team (https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086343.html )
• Discussion with enwiki about their plans for a private off-wiki abuse tracking system (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_health_initiative#LTA_Knowledgebase_and_abuse_documentation )

German Technical Wishlist

• TwoColConflict extension deployed as a beta feature to mediawiki.org
• ElectronPdfService extension deployed to dewiki

Wikidata

• InteriwkiSorting extension deployed to beta sites
• We have test wikis for Lexeme (the Wiktionary project) and federation (the Commons project) now. Currently fine tuning them. Will publish links soon.
• Working on MediaWiki wide support for social network sharing, looks like we must use a Twitter specific meta tag https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157145

Technology

Analytics

• Community consultation for feedback on Wikistats2.0 design and information architecture.
• Official launch of EventStreams, providing RecentChanges. irc.wikimedia.org and RCStream continue to work but are now deprecated in favor of EventStreams.
• Rack and setup of 3 new machines for AQS. The last one is being setup now, ETA tomorrow.
• Banner activity pivot data set is now updated minutely via spark-streaming.
• Changes in pageview data set: remove action=submit, new bot in regexp, new field - namespace_id (to be deployed today)

Research

• In the process of looking for product and tech leads for Recommendation API productization
  • https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Recommendation_API
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157588
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157589

Security

• Security Reviews:
  • Extension:3d
  • Trending Edits Endpoint
  • OIT LDAP Tools (wrap-up)

Services

• Blockers: none
• Updates:
  • RFC Discussion REST API language variant support
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154190
  • RFC Discussion Thumb API
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66214

Fundraising Tech

• Hiring replacement for Casey, who's turning devops
• More work on new PayPal integration: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107372, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153720
• Matching gifts import for CiviCRM: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115044
• Method to purge CentralNotice banners from caches: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154954

RelEng

• Blocking:
  • Nothing as far as we know
• Blocked:
  • Ops/Performance (Aaron): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125735 (redis timeouts for jobqueue)
  • Mobile web: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157515 (undefined variable in MobileFrontend, blocking train)
• Updates:
  • Expect to hear some noise about production log errors. We're going to start getting...strict...on this

Discovery

• No blockers
• A/B tests for sister wiki searches start soon on Polish, Persian, Italian, and Catalan Wikipedias: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149806
  • Also have test server on http://sistersearch.wmflabs.org/: see http://sistersearch.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=default&fulltext=1&search=~rainbow
• Working on ElasticSearch 5 upgrade
• Working on improving wikidata search
• Published description on how we test search: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Search/Testing_Search
• Deployed TextCat improvements: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_Improvements
• Added frequently used aliases for filetype: keyword: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156413
• Published call for comments on secondary search options: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2017-February/001426.html
• Improved error reporting for advanced search syntax: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149142

Product part 2

Editing

UI Standardization

• This week
  • Outlining path forward on Devise a generic way for theme-agnostic stylesheets to adapt to the current theme https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112747
    • feedback from core devs gathered
      • Provide WikimediaUI Base's base.less in MW core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123359

• Updates
  • OOjs UI:
    • Further improvements on form layouts in OOUI MW core forms for better user experience – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136790
    • MediaWiki theme: Align tab navigation to color palette
    • Mediawiki theme: Fix focus inset to overlap scrollbars – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103851

Collaboration

• Blocked - None
• Blocking - None
• Updates
  • Continued work on new RecentChanges front and backend.
  • Working with other teams to finalize ReviewStream spec.
  • Flow bug fix

Multimedia

• Blocked
  • Security review for 3D extension (scheduled, thanks!)
  • Discovery could maybe help with a schema change for img_media_type - adding 3D media type, supporting filetype:3D queries in CirrusSearch.
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/336454
• Blocking: None
• Updates
  • Firefogg losing support, we'll turn it off next week for UploadWizard
  • 3D extension nearly ready to go live, once we finish reviews and some polish, we'll push it out. Stay tuned!