Scrum of scrums/2019-03-27

2019-03-27

Callouts

• Research launched call for feedback on section recommendations. Please take a look if you're interested: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2019-March/006728.html
• Our JD for a Senior Software Engineer on Scoring Platform is live https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1608084
• WikimediaEditorTasks will (tentatively) go live on wikidatawiki on Thurs after the WM train rolls.
  • It's mostly internal-facing (for consumption by the apps) and will not get any meaningful traffic at first (while the Android team tests), but in coming weeks please keep an eye out for (unlikely) impact on page save time & DB replication performance.

Audiences

Contributors

Community Tech

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• Updates:
  • Upcoming work to enhance the UserInfo and GlobalUserInfo APIs with a new "all" parameter.

Anti-Harassment Tools

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• Updates:
  • Beginning on some restructuring of the Block class which might end up in some deprecations to Block functions. More to come when we know the real impact.

Editing

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  • Updates:
  • Section Editing on VE mobile has been live on Bengali, Hebrew and Cantonese wikis for one week: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218375
  • On Thursday, 28-March, Section Editing will be live for contributors to Hindi, Arabic, Persian, Indonesian, Marathi, Malay, Malayalam, Thai, Azerbaijani, Albanian wikis: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218939
  • We will begin an A/B test on Section Editing on mobile with this deployment. Details: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218851
  • We deployed an interim patch intended to resolve the Editing toolbar on mobile VE not being sticky on iOS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218414. This behavior will be addressed more holistically next quarter.

Growth

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• Blocking:
  • (New task) Waiting on Growth for deployment of ORES filters for Spanish Wikiquote https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219160
• Updates:
  • defining new schemas for newcomer homepage https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219250

Language

• Blocked by: None
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• Updates:
  • Thanks to Analytics for fixing MT dashboard at Dashiki
  • Slow week: Team offsite this week.

Readers

iOS native app

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• Updates:
  • 6.2.1 is in beta https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2.1-beluga-on-stilts/
    • Find & Replace
    • Editing onboarding
    • Other bug fixes & editing enhancements
  • Editing features on iOS are going through external & internal user testing - if you want to help, please reach out at nharateh@wikimedia.org

Android native app

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• Updates:Released 2.7.273
  • Continuing working on visual changes of suggested edits
  • Fix bugs

Readers Web

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• Updates:
  • Summary: continuing advanced mobile contributions features, planning for next year, and the MobileFrontend architecture investment project.
  • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
      • Add history link to actions menu T213352
      • Display core version of history page T216420
      • Allow easier access to user modes T218625
      • AMC toggle takes two taps to turn off/on T219028
      • ManualLogEntry::publish bug T218940
    • Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
      • Refactor NotificationsOverlay T219036
      • Refactor ImageOverlay T216198
      • Refactor NotificationOverlay T217296
      • Refactor TalkSectionAddOverlay T217102
      • Refactor BetaOptinPanel T217298
    • ExternalGuidance extension review and support
    • Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T218809 T214549 T215890 T198534 T218807 T218731
  • Desktop website (Popups)
    • Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
      • WMDE reference previews review and support T67114 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews
      • Bugfix for double pokey on some page previews T204627
  • Planning
    • MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture planning for next fiscal year

Readers Infrastructure

• Blocked by:
• Blocking: Android team on WikimediaEditorTasks promotion to wikidatawiki
• Updates:
  • WikimediaEditorTasks
    • Deployed on Beta Cluster and testwikidatawiki for testing. Planning to promote to wikidatawiki tomorrow after MW train.
  • mobile-html
    • scheme-less URLs T217348
    • Removed navboxes T216074
    • Allow app:// protocol in mobile-html CSP headers T218147

Multimedia

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  • depicts tags on commons File pages being tested by the community on beta
  • scrambling to get it ready for production release
  • next steps - depicts in upload wizard, searching by depicts tags

Parsing

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  • PHP Port ongoing; roughly about 25% done; Many of the hardest bits are now behind us, now entering more of the raw porting phase.
  • Reminder: While we are porting, we are unlikely to take up any bug fixing in Parsoid; but if there are any bugs blocking you, please let us know and we can talk about it.

UI Standardization

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Technology

Analytics

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  • working on goals
  • continuing work as detailed last week

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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• Updates:
  • Upgraded payments cluster to MediaWiki 1.31 and PHP 7.
    • Working on updating tests
  • CiviCRM
    • clarifying stats on recurring donations https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218616
    • Fixing inconsistent data: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152474
    • Further integrating data imported from third party bulk mail sender: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217603
  • Making fancy versions of email opt-in page: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218240
  • More work on de-coupling front end payments forms from backend db: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215453, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215462

Core Platform

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• Updates:
  • T198341 (remove some db fields for MCR Schema migration): first patch set merged, started second patch set
  • T213893 (maintenance options bug affecting Semantic MediaWiki): changes per code review, awaiting merge or additional comments
  • Q4 planning

Performance

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• Updates:
  • Implemented Element Timing for Images
  • Various postgres fixes in light of quibble-vendor-mysql-hhvm-docker fails on EchoDiscussionParserTest https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218388
  • More RDBMS cleanup patches (e.g. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/498263/ & https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/498102/ )
  • BagOStuff Fixes and improvements
    • Unable to store parser output in StashEdit (Memcached error: ITEM TOO BIG) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204742
  • arclamp: Add redis_channel option to xenon-log, and various other patches to generalise more of xenon-log into arclamp-log, in prep for PHP7-Excimer logging. – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176916
  • resourceloader: Improve the foreign-resources.yaml documentation and create registrations for all JS libs shipping in core. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203694

Release Engineering

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• Updates:
  • Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/CI Futures WG/Report https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/CI_Futures_WG/Report
  • Gerrit upgraded to 2.15.12
    • Shout if there is weirdness (irc, phab, email)
  • Train Health:
    • Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.22 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206676
      • Many problems but still finished on time
    • This week: 1.33.0-wmf.23 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206677
      • T218940 Exception "At least one of: RCID, revision ID, and log ID MUST be specified" from ManualLogEntry::publish [moved from wmf.22] - possibly fixed
      • T219380 [regression] API-only preferences can't be set - in progress
    • Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.24 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206678

Research

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  • Launched call for feedback on section recommendations: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2019-March/006728.html
  • Finalized Q4 goals
  • Starting to create the next annual plan
  • Started collecting data for CitationUsage: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213969
  • Continuing work on Oozifying article recommendations: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211981

Scoring Platform

• Blocked by:
  • (New task) Waiting on Growth for deployment of ORES filters for Spanish Wikiquote https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219160
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • We had an incident during a redis reboot. Downtown ~40 minutes. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218791 )
  • New AI proposal: Topic Embeddings https://docs.google.com/document/d/18A-Opub-LQuKDG9IgvCTA4w_gQAk4CgX1P76bXG2ki8/edit

Search Platform

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• Updates:
  • Moved WikibaseMediaInfo to rely on WikibaseCirrusSearch: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218714
  • Deployed WikibaseLexemeCirrusSearch on BETA, production next https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216206
  • Deployed new Blazegraph/WDQS version with many bug fixes
  • Working on ES 6 upgrade (almost done): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282
  • Setting up CloudElastic servers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216206
  • Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108
  • Working on moving CirrusSearch code out of Wikibase to a separate extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190022
  • Working on moving out search parts of Lexeme extension to separate extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216206
  • Working on WDQS performance improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217925

Security

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• Updates: Due to vandalism in Gerritt, team has limited updates this week
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216419: Review should begin this week
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76782: To be sunset end of this week

Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Updates:
  • Wrapping up goals

TechCom

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• Updates:
  • RFC Approved: RfC: Standards for external services in the Wikimedia infrastructure. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208524
  • RFC Approved: The Great Namespaceization and Reorg https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166010
  • Meeting today pushed until next week RFC: Skin templating https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217158

Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• SoS etherpad (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Scrum-of-Scrums) used to have many past meetings. Those are archived at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums . Etherpad now has notes for just the last meeting. Let Željko know if that breaks your workflow.