2017-05-03

Call outs:

Reminder: no train week of May 15th
Ryan Kaldari is requesting code review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/343878/ especially from Editing team
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/349432/ is waiting on security review

Last Week
- Final bug fixes for 5.4.1 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2600/
  - Another round of public betas, regression testing (after crash fixes)
- 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/
  - Places changes from user testing feedback
  - Tweaks to article footer content rendered in HTML/CSS rather than native views
This Week
- Submit 5.4.1 to the App Store (really this time)
- Continue work on 5.5
  - Another round of places user testing
  - TWN localization pluralization support

ORES: fixes for abuse and DB size issues with api.php, will reenable with next train
Developing spec for new HTML markup to share with Parsoid team https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164032

3D out on beta - will conduct some analysis over the next few weeks to determine rollout plan.
Media Viewer work - esp. focused on mobile support - to come in the next few weeks also.

Highlights for next 2 weeks:

CodeMirror - needs design review, integration with VE ongoing,
- Ryan Kaldari is requesting code review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/343878/ especially from Editing team
LoginNotify - will be deployed to Test Wikipedia next week
Popular page reports - working on improving speed
XTools rewrite - in progress

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/349432/ is waiting on security review
A bunch of bug fixing ongoing wrt link handling in Parsoid
Redlink support in Parsoid is in progress
Language variant support in Parsoid is in progress
Linter fixes ongoing -- hope to re-enable on large wikis in the coming week or two.

This week:
- Work on bringing automatic Sketch export to Wikimedia UI Style Guide to always be up-to-date with design changes
- Work on improving OOjs UI library's CSS and debugging by further widely reducing specificity
- Preparation on
Updates:
- OOjs UI:
  - UI and accessibilit improvements on Tag*Widgets
- Mobile Frontend/core: Consolidation of Less mixins

Continued work on RC Filters, including saved filters and the guided tour.
Improving RC Filters documentation and fixing a couple Doxygen issues along the way.
Working on the user experience level code coverage issue.
Had to make a couple more FlaggedRevs fixes.

Working on FileExporter/Importer extensions for moving files to Commons.
Teaching diffs to understand when a paragraph was moved.
Investigating RevisionSlider touch support: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164249
Minor fixes on mention notifications: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164115

Echo notifications about page being connected/disconnected via Wikidata will go live soon: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142102
Making constraint checks more visible via a new API and gadget.
Lexeme UI for Wiktionary gets more complete: http://wikidata-lexeme.wmflabs.org/index.php/Lexeme:L2
Starting to mix OOJS UI widgets into our jQuery UI frontend: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163971

No blockers
Enabled template boosting on media searches
Building infrastructure for machine learning assisted ranking (aka MjoLniR)
Chinese analyzer seems to be doing well, deploying soon. Working on Hebrew analyzer.
Working on Wikidata search improvement
Working on Mediawiki API integration for WDQS

Ongoing: EventLogging to Hive refinement
Detailing architectural design of Wikistats2.0 backend
Ongoing: Better bot detection in EventLogging
Ongoing: Improvements to Banner Activity Pivot data set: efficiency and sanitization
Waiting for the deployment freeze to end, to enable annotations in the reportcard