Scrum of scrums/2017-02-15

Technology

Finished rebuilding pageview API for resiliency (10x improvments on throughput and latency were done last quarter). A “programatic way to get pageviews” was one of the most requested items on community wishlist last year.
Still working with DBAs to get data from labs, working functionally, now working on performance
AB testing document design done, will publish design document.
Working on changes to parse user agent on eventlogging data so it is not raw in tables
Merged many patches to delete data aon hadoop on our 60 days schedule

Blocking
- Dashiki extension for meta wiki (Analytics)
Blocked
- [none]
Updates
- Logspam in current train, please help: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155527#3029895
- new version of git-fat (thanks otto!), for those that care

Blocking
Blocked
Updates
- Continued improvements to RCFilters.
  - More front-end patches have been merged, e.g. handling for conflicting and interacting filters, AJAX support so results update immediately.
  - Back-end patch is up for review. This sends structured filter information to the client, and changes how RecentChanges and Watchlist filters are registered. It's still a WIP, but you might want to take a look if your extension uses or might use such filters: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/337546/

Other changes in Collaboration-maintained extensions

- Echo
  - Fix mentions failing editing empty pages
  - Use internal diff engine
- Flow
  - Bottom-positioned toolbar

Last Week
- Continued work on 5.4 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/
  - Nearby map view is feature complete
  - Completed login updates and addition of 2FA
This week
- Continue work on 5.4
  - Location permission changes (friendlier prompt, users to opt-in instead of an intrusive pop-up)
  - Other bug fixes and enhancements

Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2460/
Last week:
- Create Reading Depth schema: phab:T155639 (WIP)
- Spikes related to problems we're trying to solve from technical, design, and product points of view: phab:T156259, phab:T157071, and phab:T157071.
Next week:
- Page Previews to be rolled out to 90% of users of italian, russian, greek, catalan, and hebrew wikis: phab:T157700
- Deploy new branding work to Catalan and Italian wikipedia mobile website: phab:T156794

Last week:
- 2.5.188 beta released; epicly low crash rates. Production is coming soon! (Final beta release likely today)
- Mapbox library upgrade in progress (some issues with method limit)
- Miscellaneous release time fixes
Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ):
- Continue improving the offline experience

working on TemplateStyles, ORES, random log/test errors
TemplateStyles RfC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155813
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/336963/ (more machine-readability in MediaWiki change list pages) could use review
not blocking/blocked:
Mobile Content Service: Kanban Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2445/
- New endpoint for OnThisDay (anniversary) deployed soon (example: /feed/onthisday/selected/mm/dd)
- Working on: minor improvements for onthisday + more tests
- Next: expanding TFA (today's featured article) to more languages using FeaturedFeed extension

Cookie blocks will be tested on testwiki, and hopefully out to enwiki next week https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158129
Bot that generates popular pages report, BRFA soon https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156857
Starting rewrite on XTools ArticleInfo tool https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157706
Other minor feature additions to CopyPatrol, along with porting to Spanish Wikipedia
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157120 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155933
Starting investigation on increasing length of edit summaries for non-Latin languages https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153333

Blockers:

Collation version numbering patch needs review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/272419/
- Only the authors are apparently that familiar with it, blocking effort to make UCA default for MediaWiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47611
Range Contributions test queries and the plan for the infrastructure needs feedback https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156318#3023578

No blockers
A/B test for inter-wiki search results is running on Persian, Italian, Catalan & Polish Wikis. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149806
TextCat language detection enabled on Dutch wiki and improved on German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian Wikipedias (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149324)
Published analysis for Stempel text analyzer in Polish: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Stempel_Analyzer_Analysis
Wikidata Query Service data reloaded, many old data errors should be gone now.
Working on ES5 upgrade & wikidata search

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

Still focussing on "federation" (allow using properties and items from an other Wikibase installation, needed for Commons) …
… as well as support for all the freedom new entity types need (for Wiktionary).
Enabled search engine indexing for a few ArticlePlaceholder pages.

TwoColConflict betafeature deployed to dewiki
Work on an extension to copy files to Commons from other wikis while maintaining file & description histories
Drafting a prototype for an improved Special:Search form
No blockers