Scrum of scrums/2017-07-12

2017-07-12

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

Callouts

• Reading Web found a browser bug that might be interesting to others: Firefox fires onload twice in certain circumstances https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170018
• RelEng/Performance: 3D thumbnails broken on beta, Multimedia could your input https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170444
  • Parsing: Need input about naming of a property in Parsoid's DOM output for language variants ( see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-i18n/2017-July/001129.html )

Audiences

Readers

iOS native app

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• Updates: 5.5.1 Released. Working on 5.6 (Dark mode, on this day in the feed) : https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2701/

Android native app

• Blocked by: n/a
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• Updates: (all ongoing)
  • reading list syncing UI work is nearly done; on deck: ZIM support
  • Stephen working on cross-platform CSS/JS consolidation
  • engineer interviews in progress

Reading Web

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  • Discovered a browser bug that impacts EventLogging (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170018 ) If your projects are relying on it you may want to check that.
  • Planning to roll out Page previews to all wikis except German and English.
  • Minerva and MobileFrontend will be split this week
  • Updating Vector's print styles

Reading Infrastructure

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• Updates:
  • Discussions about Summary 2.0 Spec and title properties.
  • Measuring payload reduction of MCS transformations with removal of reference lists.
  • working on Reading Lists

Multimedia

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• Updates
  • Beta thumbnails are looking better, but 3D thumbnails are still broken - could use input from releng/performance about what might be causing this https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170444
  • Patch to properly label webm audio files as audio/webm (currently video/webm)

Discovery

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• Updates:
  • (maps) Ops out this week, ops + developers out next week
  • (search) running A/B test on Special:Search "explore similar" feature

Community Tech

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  • HTML5 section IDs (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540) are still coming
  • Preparing CodeMirror and LoginNotify for wider deployment

Contributors

Editing

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Parsing

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  • Need input about naming of a property in Parsoid's DOM output for language variants ( see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-i18n/2017-July/001129.html )

Global Collaboration

Collaboration

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  • Better UI for Echo notification blacklist feature
  • RCFilters
    • Initial implementation of live updates!
    • Bug fixes
  • Article Reminder notification
    • Initial implementation behind feature flag

Contributors Design

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Technology

Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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  • Building CentralNotice admin button to clear banner cache for specific banners / languages: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168673
  • Upgrading integration with our main credit card provider: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163946
  • Deployed initial version of pulling 3rd-party mailer data into CiviCRM: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161758
  • Fixing stubborn PayPal Express Checkout / dead session bug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167923
  • Optimizing thank you email sender job

MediaWiki Platform

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Performance

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Release Engineering

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  • 1.29-rc.1 is out, hopefully release out this week (Friday if nothing comes up)

Research

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Scoring Platform

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  • Thank you to the people who helped with the June 23 outage, especially AKosiaris and SSastry!
    • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170623-ORES
    • https://github.com/wiki-ai/revscoring/commit/ab11dc4c30e8b9824949b05b7d12006746d34df7
    • https://github.com/wiki-ai/revscoring/commit/c8d5c3a863059b83647e739fdcb8ce8cc3c2a06a
    • https://github.com/wiki-ai/ores/commit/2657d8a8ab4e8fa517922fcef07a598b01c5db83
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168965 (Good demo in the last post)
  • We're unblocked and unblocking on coordinating the Extension:ORES handoff with Collaboration, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167911. Looks like we're within negotiating range of feature parity.
  • Having a conversation about "ethical" AI, which is a major focus of our work. I'll be mailing out soon to expand the circle to anyone interested in that.

Search Platform

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• Updates:
  • Continuing work on ML-assisted search ranking
  • Working on Japanese & Vietnamese analyzers (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166731, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170423 )
  • Wikidata search fixed remaining problems, waiting for deploy to do production testing
  • Database phrase search fixed (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167798 )
  • Reindexing wiki to enable archive search everywhere (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163235 )
  • Reloading WDQS data for encoding fix (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131960 )

Security

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• Updates:
  • Auditing labs views and sanitarium redaction
  • Review reccomendation api service
  • review Vue.js library review
  • review AdvancedSearch extension

Services

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• Updates:
  • Enabled automatic blacklisting of unrenderable articles for all use-cases in Change-Propagation
  • Woking on the next generation RESTBase storage model implementation
  • FYI: Grafana alerting capabilities: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grafana.wikimedia.org#Alerts_.28with_notifications_via_Icinga.29

=== Technical Operations === (apologies for not being around)

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• Updates:
  • Services running in Kubernetes Pods will have different network policies than the status quo. Feel free to comment in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170111
  • WP Zero users blocked from accessing media content due to abuse https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168142
  • RCStream will be disabled this week.
  • Recommendation API to e deployed this week https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148129
  • Due to a spam attack some people may have been unsubscribed from ops@wikimedia.org. If you care about that content, please make sure you are subscribed

Analytics

• Released a new snapshot of mediawiki_history today, it has cummulative revision counts! See the announcement on analytics-l
• Deploying an alpha version of the new Wikistats 2.0 UI working with real data
• Lots of work on purging data from EventLogging according to our data retention guidelines and privacy policies
• Preparing for the Kafka 0.10 upgrade
• Getting ready to decommission stat1002 and stat1003 and replace them with new boxes
• Joseph is on parental leave until the end of July
• Dan is going on parental leave at some point within the next few weeks

Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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