Wikimedia Features engineering/Notes/2011-W51
| Time |
11:00 - 11:30 PST |
|---|---|
| Place | #wikimedia-dev connect |
Parser / Visual editor
[edit]- Trevor
Last week:
- Released VisualEditorSandbox on MediaWiki.org
- Did followup fixes based on community feedback
This week:
- Vacation
Blockers:
- Roan
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- Inez
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- Brion
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- Gabriel
Last week:
- Created DOMConverter (HTML DOM -> WikiDOM) and tweaked that with feedback from Inez; was used a few hours later by the LocalWiki people for their Visual Editor integration test
- A few tokenizer fixes, and parsed
- Started work on template expansion
This week:
- Refactor token transform framework and implement template expansion while incorporating feedback from RFCs about Parser 2011/Parser development/Token stream transformations sent out today
Blockers:
- Neil
Last week:
- Updated feedback, related libs, to support VisualEditor
- Refactored & moved a lot of new JS libraries from UW into core, long overdue anyway, to support VisualEditor feedback
- Deployed VisualEditor
- Deployed VisualEditor fixes
- Got Gabriel W's parser working with Node.js locally
- Some interviewing for QA lead
This week:
- Working on roundtripping VisualEditor to mediawiki articles, and/or adding a new serialization to VisualEditor
- Make some fixes to UW, deploy before Xmas freeze.
Blockers:
- Dario
Last week:
- Supervised the development of hand-coding tool
- Helped with finalization, testing and deployment of AFT5
This week:
- Monitor quality/volume of data collected
- Toolbar dashboard for AFT5
- Help coordinate hand-coding
Blockers:
- None
- RobM
Last week:
- Change collapse & expand arrows from ascii to images
- Browser compatibility enhancements / fix moodbar invitation (ie6/ie7)
- Sprint 3 Prototype Testing & Deployment
This week:
- Rework MoodBar email config / prompting
- for FIXME (remove asynchronous config on load)
- Consistency changes, changing icons across moodbar + feedback dashboard
Blockers:
- Benny
Last week:
- Deployed spring 3 change to production
- Added html email support for feedback response
- Added "My Answer" filter to feedback dashboard
This week:
- Add clicking tracking to email?
- Test and deploy 'Mark as Helpful' for feedback response
Blockers:
- Dario
Last week:
- Started review of data/metrics plan and made first recommendations for clicktracking to email notifications
- Uploaded FeedbackDashboard dashboard on toolserver: http://toolserver.org/~dartar/fd/
This week:
- Iterate on FeedbackDashboard dashboard
Blockers:
- RobM
Last week:
- Create base extension files and begin development
This week:
- Create core Javascript module for hooking MarkAsHelpful elements into talk page
- Create actions for calling new API ( marking / unmarking / loading mah items )
- Create base styling
- Testing / Deployment
- Benny
Last week:
- Started implementation on 'Mark As Helpful'
This week:
- Create 2 two APIs for 'mark as helpful'
- Test and Deploy 'mark as helpful'
- Integration of 'mark as helpful' to moodbar
New Article Creation/New Page Patrol
[edit]- Ian
Last week:
- Worked on concurrency control backend for pagetriage/fbdashboard
- NPP survey legal agreement
This week:
- (hopefully) starting npp survey
Blockers:
- Neil
Last week:
- Pushed some changes to legal code, refactored lots of libs and moved to core (see VisualEditor)
This week:
- Seem to have a regression/bug with custom license handling; will fix
Blockers:
- Ian
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- Jeroen
Last week:
- Bugfixes
This week:
- Bugfixes
Blockers:
- None
- Ian & Neil
Last week:
- Reviewed transcoder, some small bugfixes
- Met to discuss platform eng. impact
This week:
- Working on test plan
Blockers:
- MDale
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ResourceLoader 2.0
[edit]- Roan
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- Timo
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- Jeroen
Last week:
- Workin on Education Program extension.
- Wrote design spec
This week:
- Workin on Education Program extension.
- Call with Frank scheduled for tomorrow to review design spec
Blockers:
- None so far
- Siebrand, Santhosh, Niklas, Amir, Gerard
Last week:
- WebFonts post-deployment bugs.
- etherpad:WebFonts-deployment
- Reported some upstream.
- a lot of discussions with the Indic languages communities
- Installed the Translate extension on mediawiki.org to enable documentation translation
This week:
- Translate extension improvements:
- fuller message review system integration
- fuller logging
- starting to think about user-level documentation localization
- starting to think about generic ways of gathering feedback about features
Blockers:
- tighter cooperation with the Visual Editor is needed ASAP.
Other notes...
[edit]- Dario
Last week:
- Post-mortem of Berkman incident with community members + RCom, work with Timo on the changes requested by Legal + community members
- Review of 4 requests of access to private data with Legal
- Review of WikiData with WMDE
- Met with team of researchers at Stanford/Yahoo Research doing Wikipedia research (gender, editor demographics, Article Feedback data) and planned micro-collaborations + brown bag with full Stanford team in January
- Supported collaboration between fundraiser team and AllOurIdeas to crowdsource the design of the banner, project launched yesterday: http://www.allourideas.org/wikipedia-banner-challenge
This week
- RCom meeting to discuss handling of subject recruitment requests
- Drafting plans for mobile experiments with Phil