Scrum of scrums/2020-12-16

2020-12-16

Callouts

• Last train of the year happening this week!
• All welcome to propose cross-Wikimedia standards for Vue code, on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions/Vue (and talk page)
  • API Platform is live! https://api.wikimedia.org/

No updates

TechCom, Web, Prod Infra, Inuka, OKAPI, Analytics, Cloud Services, Quality and Test, Machine Learning Platform, Research, Wikidata, and German Technical Wishlist

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates: asynch retro form coming

Product

Community Tech

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• Blocking:
• Updates: No Updates

Anti-Harassment Tools

• Blocked by:
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• Updates:
  • Deploying IPInfo extension to Beta Cluster this week - thank you to everyone who has helped

Editing

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• Updates:
  • No updates, team offsite

Growth

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• Updates:
  • continuing work on link recommendations: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
  • added pageid: CirrusSearch keyword: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#Pageid (thanks to Search Platform for their help!)
  • added a community notice module to Special:Homepage after realizing we were interfering with a big arwiki content campaign https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269804
  • changed message handling in skin tabs for better gender support: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47938
  • preparing to deploy GrowthExperiments on bnwiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266020

iOS native app

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• Blocking:
• Updates: Going to stand up a labs instance for some simple caching the next experiment coming down the pipeline. Don't think this is blocked by anything, but if the team gets stuck, we may need help.

Android native app

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates: Working w/ community tech team on ensuring we have APIs available for the Android Watchlist work that has been designed. After some research, believe we have everything needed.

Structured Data

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • MediaSearch: continuing to improve and tune back-end, front-end bug fixes
  • Media matching: continuing architectural discussions across teams
  • Instrumenting event logging for VE's image search ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265101 )
  • Hoping to get some blog posts written about our experience working with Vue

Abstract Wikipedia

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• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Continuing work on using ZType data to enforce structure when editing ZObjects.
  • Starting review of our Vue.js practices now the team has two members. All welcome to propose cross-Wikimedia standards on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions/Vue

Parsing

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• Updates: no updates

Language

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• Updates:
  • Apertium service migration is done (Remaining thing will be done by SRE mostly in January).

Library

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• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Migrated The Wikipedia Library images from DockerHub to Quay.io
  • Wikilink performance improvements have been merged

UI Standardization

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• Updates:
  • No new OOUI release this week.

Technology

Fundraising Tech

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• Updates:
  • More work on CentralNotice campaign preferences: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268646
  • Working on donor email preference center: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268495
  • Getting more of our dev-environment dockerized: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262975
  • Prepping another CiviCRM upgrade, testing new search features on staging: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270216

Platform

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• Updates:
  • API Platform is live! https://api.wikimedia.org/
  • ParserCache work for REST API
  • MW on K8S and Shellbox
  • Sockpuppet Detection API closing in on completion
  • Task recommendation API ramping up

Engineering Productivity

Performance

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• Updates:
  • Nothing to update.

Release Engineering

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• Blocking:
  • ???
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.21 phab:T263187
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.22 phab:T263188
  • Next week: No Train and no deploys!
  • Rest of the year: No Train and no deploys!

Security

• Blocked by:
  • none
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Q3 review queue is almost set / full - pls message soon if you have plans that will require a security review.
  • In Progress: ISBN Barcode Scanner - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269007
  • In Progress: Section Translation - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260236
  • In Progress: IP Info extension - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260822

Search Platform ?

• Blocked by:
  • none
• Updates:
  • Set up Pipeline Configuration in WDQS repo - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265512
  • Create Blubberfile in WDQS repo - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265504
  • Reload categories (SPARQL) once 1.36.0-wmf.3 is running on all groups -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259588
  • Strange result in Wikidata query (full URLs given instead of identifiers) -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255657
  • Review MediaSearch profile for integration into CirrusSearch - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260251
  • Set up dashboard to track resource usage for Commons and Wikidata Elasticsearch indexes -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265931
  • Added alert on Search is currently too busy - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262694
  • The streaming-updater-producer should handle backfills gracefully -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267029
  • Investigate SearchSatisfaction mismatched test buckets - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262845
  • SearchSatisfaction instrumentation should cleanup the search URL -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265455
  • data request: Search Interleaving Dataset - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263781
  • Normalize homoglyphs in mixed-script tokens when possible - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222669
• Stuff no one else cares about:
  • [Airflow] extract_wikibase_item items fails for ores_predictions_weekly since 11.01 run -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267570

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • Growth on adding LVS configs for linkrecommendation
  • Search for adding k8s configs for flink
• Updates:
  • Kunal joins ServiceOps SRE.
  • Giuseppe and Effie have given a talk at SRECon
  • mw1265 being reimaged to buster

Cross-cutting

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• Updates:
  • Work proceeds on making MW, extensions and libraries PHP 8.0-compatible (target is back-porting to REL1_35, for our sins); expect another round of mediawiki-tools-phan updates https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248925