Scrum of scrums/2017-04-19

contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering

Call outs:

• Releng: if you have a scap3-deployed repo that has a patch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/topic:T162814+%28status:open%29 please merge
• Analytics: Piwik is being upgraded tomorrow, April 20th, may have a 30 minute down-time
• Analytics: Wikistats 2.0 prototype consultation going on at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikistats_2.0_Design_Project/RequestforFeedback/Round2

Product

Reading

iOS

• Last Week
  • Continued work on 5.4.1 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2600/
    • Background feed loading & coalescing
    • Crash fixes & performance enhancements
  • 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/
    • Places
    • JavaScript consolidation with Android
    • Move footer content to WebView
• This Week
  • Testing 5.4.1
  • Continue work on 5.5 (Places, JS consolidation)

Android

• Beta release this week containing Wikidata title description editing expanded to many more languages, as well as various offline UX improvements
• Further improving offline functionality and surrounding UX polish
• Continuing work on cross-platform consolidation of CSS & JS
• Beginning discussion of implementing offline ZIM collections (Q4 goal)
• Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/

Reading Infrastructure

• TemplateStyles CR, familiarizing with OCG
• MCS: Finally updating Parsoid version requested by MCS to 1.3.0. Working on refactoring mobile-sections to a new, intermediary, mobile HTML endpoint.

Web

• Wrapping up page previews work
• Beginning work on a print specific stylesheet

Editing

Collaboration

• No deploys this week, but on Monday, planning to enable new RC Filters as a Beta Feature on English Wikipedia (which does have ORES), plus all non-ORES wikis (with the possible exception of German Wikipedia).
• Preview for when deployments restart:
  • Working on transforming Wikidata user IDs so propagated edits show user responsible
  • Optimization so if we know a query will return 0 results, we won't do the query at all. Some of these no-result queries have extremely poor performance.
  • Other bug fixes

Parsing

• Linter: Continuing to address bug reports and tweaking it. Was disabled from large wikis last Friday because of performance issues ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148609 ). Problem is now fixed and will be re-enabled next week. Decided to finish tweaking and improving output before a wider announcement.

Language

• ContentTranslation disabled in all Wikis due to high load on x1 in DC switch. See: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163344 Ops/DBA aware. Team will debug further on it.
• Work on CX + OOjs continue.

UI Standardization

• This week:
  • Continued work to provide WikimediaUI Base variables in core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123359
• Updates:
  • OOjs UI:
    • Release of v0.21.1 with 11 UI/a11y improvements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md – among those:
      • MediaWiki theme: Ensure WCAG level AA contrast on unsupported SelectFileWidget
      • MediaWiki theme: Make readonly TextInputWidget appearance clearer
      • MediaWiki theme: TagMultiselectWidget outlined UI improvements
      • MenuOptionWidget: Remove theme-independent 'check' icon (Prateek Saxena)
      • DropdownInput-/RadioSelectInputWidget: Remove unnecessary ARIA attributes

Wikidata

• continue work on federation and structured wiktionary
• deploying geoshape data type on Wikidata next Monday
• also enabling Cognate extension (interwiki links) on Wiktionary next Monday

Technology

Security

• Reviews
  • Ex:WikibaseMediaInfo
  • TemplateStyles re-review

Services

• Blockers: none
• Updates:
  • Services DC switchover yesterday
  • RESTBase summary endpoint now allows 5 minutes client-side caching

Analytics

• Ongoing work on EventLogging analysis support in Hadoop
• Ongoing work on Wikistats 2.0 data back-end
• Piwik being upgraded tomorrow, will have a short (30-minute or so) downtime
• Wikistats 2.0 consultation on the visual design prototype happening now: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikistats_2.0_Design_Project/RequestforFeedback/Round2 (prototype at https://analytics-prototype.wmflabs.org )
• Dashiki configuration articles on meta are all screwed up, can't fix them until the codfw-related deployment moratorium is over

RelEng

• Blockers: none
• Blocking: none?
• Updates
  • If you have a scap3-deployed repo that has a patch in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/topic:T162814+%28status:open%29 please merge

Discovery

• No blockers
• New blog post about search: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/04/10/searching-wikipedia/
• Made plan to deploy archive search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163235 comments welcome
• Portal updates: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546
• Building infrastructure for machine learning assisted ranking (aka MjoLniR)
• Working on Wikidata search improvement

Fundraising Tech

• More Paypal Express Checkout fixes
• Coordinating with Comms to update the WMF logo in various places: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144254
• CentralNotice: Banner sequence feature is in code review https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144453
• CiviCRM: getting rid of the rest of our local core hacks

Community Tech

No blockers

• Pushed out Special:AutoblockList, enhancements coming
• Getting community feedback on LoginNotify (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LoginNotify)
• Analyzing cookie blocking on English Wikipedia prior to broader roll-out to all wikis
• Work continuing on CodeMirror (syntax highlighting) (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeMirror)