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2020-12-02
[edit]Callouts
[edit]Pinging Parsoid client teams (Editing, Language, Platform Infrastructure, Growth) onhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266143 again. Where necessary, this week, we will start submiting patches against your codebases. In that case, we would appreciate prompt reviews and followups as necessary.
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Product
[edit]Community Tech
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- Updates:
- We are still reviewing wishlist proposals. We have until December 7th before the voting phase starts
Watchlist Expiry has been enabled in all production wikis since last night (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Watchlist_Expiry)
Editing
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- [ reply ] link deployed by default to three wikis (cs, ar, hu) and beta feature on ~250 other Wikipedias. Received support on en.wiki during an RfC; next step is an A/B test on ~30 medium-larges wikis. Can also be enabled globally via user script (ask us how if interested).
iOS native app
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- Updates:
- Released 6.7.3 into the App Store last week. Turning on Article as a Living Document experiment (in 6.7.3) today.
- In exploratory stage for 6.8 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4862/
- Chinese variant fixes
- Initial push notifications
- Article inspection mode experiment
Android native app
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- Latest release rolled out to public 2 days ago.
- Working on designs for bringing watchlist into the app.
Web
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- RelEng?: Members of Readers Web aren't contributors to the @wikimedia/wvui package on NPM
- No task as of yet
- james f will help
- RelEng?: Members of Readers Web aren't contributors to the @wikimedia/wvui package on NPM
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Continuing to work on WVUI integration with Vector
- IE11 support for WVUI: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268703
- Thanks to James F for the note about the es6-promise polyfill
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252774 – mediawiki.toc.styles RL module merged into ResourceLoaderSkinModule
Structured Data
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- Team offsite this week
Abstract Wikipedia
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- Continuing work on using ZType data to enforce structure when editing ZObjects.
- Excited to welcome Genoveva (Geno) Galarza Heredero, our new software engineer, to the team.
Parsing
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- Pinging Parsoid client teams (Editing, Language, Platform Infrastructure, Growth) on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266143 again. Where necessary, this week, we will start submiting patches against your codebases. In that case, we would appreciate prompt reviews and followups as necessary.
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Inuka
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- More bug fixes and UX improvements to the KaiOS app
Library
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- A bug that denied eligible users access to the Wikipedia Library Card Bundle is now fixed
- Working on making Wikilinks more stable is still in progress
Technology
[edit]Cloud Services
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- releng train-dev blocked waiting for nested VM support (phab:T267433)
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Fundraising Tech
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- The deluge of donations is here! Yesterday was our second-best day ever, and that was without sending any emails out (just banners).
- Lots of discussion on best way forward for dockerized dev environment - discussion of multipurpose image vs app-specific images ongoing at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268685 . Advice welcome from long-term docker users!
- Fixing little bugs as they crop up in the logs
- Updating text for different specialized thank you emails
- Tweaking timing of CiviCRM queue consumers so we can keep up with the generosity of our donors and send them timely acknowledgement.
- Trying to reduce log spam on main CRM box
Platform
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- Bug fixes for the API portal
- Parsoid cache in MediaWiki
- Sockpuppet API productionising
- Shellbox for MediaWiki on Kubernetes
Engineering Productivity
[edit]Performance
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- For 1000+ websites Microsoft now redirects IE users to Edge automatically when they have Edge installed: https://twitter.com/MonsieurPerf/status/1333740793253793796 Currently trying to get in touch with Microsoft to find out if getting Wikimedia sites added to the list would be a possibility. If they confirm that it can be done, we can decide whether we want to be on the list or not.
Quality and Test Engineering
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- Blog posts at team blog:
- Outreachy, September-November 2020 (by Željko Filipin) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/220
- Exempla Docent - testing UI for Suggested edits module, Part 2 (by Elena Tonkovidova) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/222
- To dream a dream. My Outreachy Journey (by Harriet Ayugi) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/223
Release Engineering
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- WMCS: train-dev blocked waiting for nested VM support (phab:T267433)
- SRE ServiceOps: deploy scap 3.16.0-1 phab:T268634
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- Train Health
- Last week: No Train
- This week: 1.36.0-wmf.20 phab:T263186
- Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.21 phab:T263187
- Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions
- PHP 8.0 CI support is coming as an experimental job for MW-land code; already voting for some libraries. Work to do.
- Train Health
Search Platform
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- Updates:
- Restart cirrus elasticsearch servers for java upgrade - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268770
- Update BAG & BRT SPARQL endpoint in the WDQS whitelist - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264659
Site Reliability Engineering
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releng: deploy scap 3.16.0-1 phab:T268634
- Updates:
- Kunal is joining SRE Service Operations!
- Kubernetes infrastructure(s) upgrade policy doc posted at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes/Kubernetes_Infrastructure_upgrade_policy
- Effie and Giuseppe will be presenting in SRECon. See https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon20americas/presentation/mouzeli
- MCR schema change finished https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238966
- https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/11/25/wikimedias-cdn-the-road-to-ats/ 2nd ATS blog post is out