Scrum of scrums/2017-03-01

Call outs

• If you have something that you would like participants to take back to their teams (examples: requests for code review, Phab tickets to comment on), please put it in this section in addition to your update
  • Collation version numbering patch needs review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/272419/ (blocks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47611 )
  • Language: Still Blocked on mysterious and random Qunit test failures: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153038 (Who can help?), Schema changes review needed from DBA: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146450 (TechOps)

Product

Reading

Android

• Last week:
  • v2.5.190 production released containing Wikidata description editing for Catalan, Hebrew, and Russian Wikipedias
  • UI updates to main bottom toolbar
  • Library and tooling upgrades: T144252 (Gradle build system), Fresco image library
  • Consolidation of Android and iOS JavaScript code started T152991
  • App language now changes chrome independent of system language T142019
  • New saved page cache implementation in progress T156917
• Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ):
  • Continue improving the offline experience

iOS

• Last Week
  • Continued work on 5.4 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/
    • Dynamic text size for Places
    • Integrated design feedback to Places
    • Continued work on login and 2FA (two-factor authentication)
• This week
  • Continue work on 5.4
    • Ship to external Beta
    • VoiceOver audit for Places
    • Other bug fixes & enhancements

Web

• Last week
  • Update related pages schema to allow for current A/B test - T157375
  • Deploy new mobile header to Catalan and Italian wikipedias - T156794
  • Bug fixes related to the new branding work
• This week
  • Mostly tech debt and bugfixes

Reading Infrastructure

• working on TemplateStyles, ORES
  • about to wrap up TemplateStyles RfC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155813
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:css-sanitizer
• not blocking/blocked
• MCS: finished OnThisDay for the first four languages. Working on expanding TFA (today's featured article) to more languages.

Community Tech

• No blockers
• Discussing best approach for Range Contributions, got DBA feedback https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156318
• Still testing cookie blocks, hoping for a enwiki deploy this or next week https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152952
• Popular pages report bot nearing completion, enwiki BRFA approved https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141154
• CopyPatrol now supports permalinks to specific record https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154811
• Notifications for unsuccessful login attempts
  • Enabled preferences on loginwiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158871
  • Testing LoginNotify extension on beta cluster https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158878
• Security fixes to Wikisource's IA Upload tool https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157784
• Extend length of edit summaries for non-Latin languages, may be handled with with the ArchCom multi-content revision work https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153333
• Various fixes to PageAssessments: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158245 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157654 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154216

Editing

Language

• Work continue on OOjs UI migration for ContentTranslation.

Collaboration

• Blocked - None
• Blocking - None
• Updates
  • Flow
    • Import dump: support importing a board that exists on another Wikimedia wiki (cherry-picked and deployed earlier)
    • Styling changes
    • Front-end fixes
  • RCFilters
    • Allow users to add custom highlighting depending on which filters apply
    • Many front-end fixes
  • ORES
    • (Ladsgroup) Make wording of filters in Special:Contribs as the same as ChangesLists
• Echo
  • Minor backend fixes and cleanup

UI Standardization

• This week
  • MediaWiki Theme: Replace the down, up, next, previous indicators with chevrons https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111550
  • Further research on provide WikimediaUI Base's base.less in MW core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123359
  • Some OOjs UI accessibility task work planned https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/697/query/.o5Hlts6Hi1e/
• Updates
  • OOjs UI:
    • 0.19.4 release with 6 different visual patches, also all widgets in MediaWiki theme are now featuring solely colors from the WikimediaUI color palette
    • ContentTranslation: Сontribution's dropdown menu https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157217 – done

Multimedia

• No blockers/blocking, thanks to everyone who helped the past few weeks
• Releasing Extension:3D to Beta this week or next, then moving on to prod deployment. Heads up, we will be carefully watching load on thumbnailing and usage patterns.
• Note: May enable chunked uploads on cross-wiki upload dialog. Could move to change UploadWizard to core upload library after that. Stay tuned.

Discovery

• No blockers
• Working on ES5 upgrade & wikidata search
• ICU Folding is now effective on all English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis. Other wikis can be added on request. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155515)
• New contentmodel search keyword is now operational on commons (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156371)
• Fixed portal issue with bad caching which resulted in blank page (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158782).
• Article statistics were updated for wikipedia.org, wikiquote.org and wikiversity.org
• Wikidata Query Service upgraded to Blazegraph 2.1.5RC, various bugs fixed, POST requests are enabled.
• Seeking nomination for SPARQL federation endpoints: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_federation_input

Infrastructure

Analytics

• Hadoop cluster is being upgraded to CDH 5.10, everything going ok except some problems with Oozie, sorting out now, lots of improvements with this upgrade
• lots of Piwik improvements get rid of errors t
• datasets.wikimedia.org is being migrated to analytics.wikimedia.org/datasets. We will do this slowly making sure we get in touch with data owners. We'll post on the analytics mailing list with details
• thank you to Chad and Reedy for help with Dashiki extension deploy, dashiki configs are now like https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Config:Dashiki:VitalSigns
• evaluating Vue.js to build Wikistats 2.0, with standard mediawiki theme as developed by UI Standardization
  • Note from Wikidata: We are evaluating Vue.js too.

Security

• Security reviews this week:
  • StopForumSpam
  • mobile anniverseries endpoint
  • CollaborationKit

Services

• Blockers: none
• Updates:
  • Completely switched to new storage model for mobile content
  • Preparing to switch to the new version of kafka driver
  • Not much more, annual planning and vacation

Fundraising Tech

• No blockers
• DonationInterface
  • deployed a streamlined way to redirect donors returning from credit card processor forms https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153972
  • first use of new Ingenico API almost ready to deploy https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128692
• CiviCRM: recurring payment timing tweaks (28 days hath February) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159298
• CentralNotice: Looked at slow saves, was due to an underlying message cache issue https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158084
• Filling out PCI paperwork
• Callouts
  • Thanks to Reedy for pointing out that we can deprecate / remove a vestigial part of the DonationInterface extension

RelEng

• Blocking
  • none
• Blocked
  • None
• New version of scap just went out. Let us know in #wikimedia-releng if you notice any problems.

German Technical Wishlist

• No blockers.
• Continued to work on the search form prototype: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:TMg/advancedSearch
  • Run into "prefix:" search parameter eating other parameters after: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159321

Wikidata

• No blockers.
• Backend work for custom entity support (for Wiktionary) is making good progress.
• Blocking ourself on a full labs setup to finally test the new Interwiki extension. Callout to Adam.