2017-04-26

Call outs:

Datacenter switch back Wednesday, May 3rd 2017 14:00 UTC (user visible, requires read-only mode)
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Switch_Datacenter
RelEng/Ops: Reading Web needs your help! Config is being ignored and shipping feature that communities have explicitly asked to be disabled and we don't understand why. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163114

Mostly bug fixing and improving code quality for pending Page previews launch
Need help from RelEng/Ops to address `Regression: Fix config to disable related pages where it's not wanted( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163114)`. Config is being ignored and shipping feature that communities have explicitly asked to be disabled and we don't understand why.

Last Week
- Continued work on 5.4.1 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2600/
  - Regression testing, new public beta
  - Crash fixes & performance enhancements
- 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/
  - Places (UserTesting feedback)
  - Article footer content rendered in HTML/CSS rather than native views
This Week
- Submit 5.4.1 to the App Store
- Continue work on 5.5
  - Updates to Places from user feedback

Beta released last week containing Wikidata title description editing expanded to many more languages, as well as various offline UX improvements
- Hotfix release Friday (4/21), promoted to prod yesterday: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2017-April/010503.html
Planning is underway for implementing offline ZIM compilations (Q4 goal)
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2723/
Continuing work on cross-platform consolidation of CSS & JS
Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/

ORES: working on api.php abuse + DB size issues, hoping to reenable after data center switchback
librarized https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Testing-access-wrapper
MCS: stop annoucement of past survey, fix handling of links in section titles

This week:
- Continued work to provide WikimediaUI Base variables in core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123359
Updates:
- OOjs UI:
  - Release of v0.21.2 with 11 UI/a11y improvements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md – among those:
    - MediaWiki theme: Full WCAG level AA contrast support of widgets accomplished
    - MediaWiki theme: Fix IE 7 oversized buttons
    - MediaWiki theme: Improve SearchWidget design
    - Set ARIA `role=combobox` on DropdownWidget and LookupElement too (Bartosz Dziewoński)
    - Set `aria-owns` for everything with a dropdown list (ARIA `role=combobox`) (Bartosz Dziewoński)

Parsoid: Audio / video support in place -- we plan to deploy today.
Linter: Improved documentation and guidance for fixing linter errors @ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Linter
Tidy replacement: Updated documentation @ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ
Language Variant tweaks in preprocessor: Fixups required documented @ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Language_conversion/Preprocessor_fixups ... an editor has been diligently fixing them. We plan to make an announcement about this upcoming change soon and then merge the core patch ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/333997/ ) after that.

CX reenabled; We're watching logs and ready to disable if needed. Incident report in progress.
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163344
OOjs UI migration work in progress.

RCFilters: 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.
Working on GuidedTour to make people aware of RCFilters beta feature
Working on next generation of RCFilters, including namespace and user filters, saved settings, and more sophisticated time filtering.
DId a deploy Monday to enable RCFilters on English Wikipedia, plus almost all non-ORES wikis. Some issues with preferences, but these have been partly tracked down.
Other bug fixes

No blockers

Rollling out Cookie Blocking to all wikis next Monday
Further polish work on CodeMirror extension (syntax highlighting)
Getting community feedback on LoginNotify extension (currently on Beta Cluster for testing)
User rights expiration is live on all wikis

Focusing on the Lexeme extensions UI, example: http://wikidata-lexeme.wmflabs.org/index.php/Lexeme:L2
Had to work around a change in core that blocked undeleting Wikidata entities: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163144
Going to deploy Echo notifications when linking pages via Wikidata: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110604

Planning next steps for the book referencing wish: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151301

No blockers
Building infrastructure for machine learning assisted ranking (aka MjoLniR)
Chinese analyzer seems to be doing well, enabling soon. Working on Hebrew analyzer.
Completed analysis of second sister wiki search A/B test: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASecond_Test_Of_Cross-wiki_Search_-_Helping_More_Users_Discover_Content_On_Wikipedia%E2%80%99s_Sister_Projects.pdf
Published notes from discussion on scoring functions: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Some_Thoughts_on_the_Math_of_Scoring
Updated WDQS dashboard to include traffic from all SPARQL endpoints: https://discovery.wmflabs.org/wdqs/
Updated the external search dashboard to display non-bot traffic (https://discovery.wmflabs.org/external/, task T161932)
Portal statistics (task T128546) and translations (task T142582) were updated
Working on Wikidata search improvement
Working on Mediawiki API integration for WDQS

Ongoing work on EventLogging analysis support in Hadoop - Not yet finished
Ongoing work on Wikistats 2.0 data back-end - Finalizing Design
Started to define webrequest tagging project
Daily uniques are in Pivot
Waiting for feedback on Wikistats 2.0 consultation
Dashiki configuration articles on meta still broken, can't fix them until the codfw-related deployment moratorium is over

Blocked
- None
Blocking
- None?
Updates
- Wrapping up switchover action items https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/codfw-switchover-AprMay2017
- ToolsProxy incident report https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170419-ToolsProxy

Blockers: none
Updates:
- Service-runner doesn't support node 0.1x any more
- https://github.com/wikimedia/service-runner/pull/163

Blocked
- None
Blocking
- None?
- Config symlinks should be touched when they're deployed, Reading callout above https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126306
Updates
- New version of scap out https://github.com/wikimedia/scap/blob/release/debian/changelog#L1 (config diffs in a basic format, env announce in IRC)
- 1.29 is coming...see wikitech email for more info

More Paypal Express Checkout fixes
Investigating potential extra session creation on paymentswiki
Planning Ingenico integration changeover, which will include moving a lot of functionality from MW extension to lib
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, using upstream buildkit in CI
Found a dozen repos we can delete