2017-06-21

Callouts

Could use some input from performance and/or cloud people as to the efficacy of 3d2png on the beta cluster - currently planning to upload ~1000 STL files at around 400kb each and thumbnail them to see what the load hit is like. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166699
Beginning to look at improving HTML summaries for purpose of "page previews" feature. Likely to need help/input from services https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113094
CommTech would love feedback on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540
codfw row A switch upgrade Thurs 29th https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168462
Thumbor deployed to wikipedias, commons next week https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121388
restbase2001 is depooled for experiments and it should stay depooled
some input on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159922 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166188 would be welcome
feedback welcome on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133178

Still working on reading list syncing UI, not immediately blocked/blocking as far as we know.
- Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2763/
New engineer hiring process is underway.

Removed ability for users to disable images. Ops there is a VCL change https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109870
Beginning to look at improving HTML summaries for purpose of "page previews" feature. Likely to need help/input from services (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113094

Not blocking, not blocked
Could use some input from performance and/or cloud people as to the efficacy of 3d2png on the beta cluster - currently planning to upload ~1000 STL files at around 400kb each and thumbnail them to see what the load hit is like. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166699

Blocked by:
Blocking:
Work proceeds on style/vector tile schema changes - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153282 and many sub-issues
Debugging stalled map updates on production - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168241

Blocked by: Would love feedback on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540 regarding HTML5 section IDs
XTools rewrite (http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-dev/)
CodeMirror - soon to be deployed as a Beta Feature on Test Wikipedia
LoginNotify - Adding notifications for successful logins from an unknown device
HTML5 section IDs - stalled

Blocked by:
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/350830/ has been stuck in review queue for a while now (Krinkle last took a look at it)
Blocking:
Updates
- Linter extension was reenabled on all wikis.
- Redlink annotations were attempted to be deployed, but canaries alerted us to some title normalization issues that are being looked into. Should go out next week (or two, if we need a patch to ride the MediaWiki train)
- Pig Latin merged in core: other work on language variant support to land soon in Parsoid (and hopefully VE as well)

Again -- Redundant Announcement: RCStream clients using socket.io will be deprecated on July 7th, we pinged everyone and offered help to move to EventStreams, but if anyone knows stragglers point them to us
Blocked by: --
Blocking: --
Ongoing
- purging EventLogging data: Performance issues coworked with DBAs
- Ongoing work on Webrequest tagging helping functions
- wikistats 2.0: Development continues

Blocked by: none
Blocking: none
Updates:
- Reader survey for 14 wikis scheduled for Thursday, 22 June
  - Will run for approximately one week, but may (unlikely) need two
  - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131949#3361478

Blocked by:
Blocking:
Continuing work on ML-assisted search ranking, performance testing
Fixed breakage in cross-language search due to deploy of sister-wiki search (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168302)
Ukrainian, Chinese language analyzers deployed. Swedish got improved configuration recognizing letters with diacritics as distinct. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160562)
Dasboards migrated to puppet setup (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161354)
- This also includes reusable puppet module for creating Shiny server: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-June/088374.html

Blocked by: none
Blocking: none
Reviews:
- psy/psysh use on WMF servers
- Auto-approval of low-risk OAuth applications
- Ex:JsonConfig/Ex:Kartographer

Blocked by: none
Blocking: none
Updates:
- Thumbor deployed to wikipedias, commons next week https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121388
- Minor incident regarding citoid and nih.gov. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133696#3350683
- WP0 abuse on phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168142
- codfw row A switch upgrade Thurs 29th https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168462

No blockers.
Continued working on the Lexeme UI: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160053
Continued using constraint definitions from statements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102759
Exporting Data:… links to RDF and query service now: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167951 <-- task ID seems to be wrong, the task talks about something else?
Registration for WikidataCon opened: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017