https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-09-14
= 2016-09-14 =
== Product ==
=== Reading ===
==== Reading Web ====
Current sprint:
* Related pages preparation for mobile web deployments
* Shipped wikidata descriptions in mobile web to all but top 6 wikis
==== Mobile Content Service ====
* Working on follow-up tasks from last week's Android app outage:
*
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160907-Android
- * Set up monitoring tests for individual feed endpoints
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145223
- * Communicate steps on how to switch the app to use different backend
servers.
- * Investigate Icinga alert setup if the app experiences unusually high
crash rates.
* Heads-up: New service developement starting soon for new RESTBase service
to get Trending edits:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading_web_trending_service/
==== Android native app ====
Current sprint: 91 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2216/
* navigation overhaul: primary dev work is complete; now updating per
design feedback.
* beta release this week (probably)
==== iOS native app ====
Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2150/
* 5.2
* Adding iOS 10 Support
** Today Widgets - Top Read & Continue Reading and basic iOS 10
compatibility
* Dropping iOS 8 support
* Released to beta, releasing with iOS 10 Tuesday September 13
Next release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2188/
* Bug fix release for 5.2, scope still in discussion
==== Reading Infrastructure ====
* no blocking/blocked
=== Community Tech ===
* Blocking: none
* Blocked: none
* Working with Performance team to optimize refreshLinks job for
PageAssessments roll-out to enwiki (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145473)
* Finished work on Google OCR tool for WikiSource:
https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Google_OCR
** Web interface: https://tools.wmflabs.org/ws-google-ocr/
** Gadget: https://wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:GoogleOCR.js
* Working with DBAs on improving CentralAuth for cross-wiki watchlists (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141951)
* Working on Education Program Dashboard
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125546
=== Editing ===
==== Collaboration ====
* Blocking
** Continuing work on Flow caching rewrite
* Blocked
* Updates
** Major work on seen time for Echo notifications. It is now a single
global time, so when you open any notification popup, the time is updated
globally.
** Continued work on using MessagePoster to allow for posting to wikitext
or Flow boards more easily. NewUserMessage updated to use this, PageTriage
is next.
==== Language ====
* Blocking: None
* Blocked: None
* Updates:
** Content Translation work continue.
** Apertium ready for Jessie migration, test this week, deployment likely
next week.
=== Analytics ===
* Blocking: None
* Blocked: None
* Updates:
** Kasocki : Working on automating tests with jenkins
** New AQS cluster data is loaded, load-tests still to be run, then
production integration
** Edit reconstruction: data for simplewiki is ready to be sent to Erik
(not perfect, still improving), performance optimisations on the go for big
wikis to run
** Pivot (druid based UI) is being productionized to be accessible for WMF
staff (LDAP)
** Participation in A/B testing design - Looking good
=== Services ===
* Blocking: none
* Blocked: none
* Updates:
** Services config deploys via scap3 on the way
** Depooling and repooling services during deployment, instructions would
be sent soon
** Change Propagation replaced RESTBaseUpdateJobs, extension undeployed
** EventBus deprecated events are not produced any more
=== Technical Operations ===
* '''Blocking''': none
** none
* '''Blocked''':
** none
* '''Updates''':
** Migrated to a new puppetmaster infrastructure for production, should
make next DC switchover easier (among other things)
*** TechOps offsite happening week of Sept 25 (last week of quarter),
please work around this for deployments*
** wikitech features will get a deprecation announcement soon
** Partial traffic to thumbor to be enabled this week
** apertium reviews for LE are done. Migration of apertium service to SCB
to happen next week.
** appserver migration to jessie ongoing. CODFW done, EQIAD to happen next
** New DBA, Manuel onboarded.
=== Discovery ===
* No blockers
* BM25 A/B test is turned off, preliminary results ok, waiting for analysis
* Working on multiwiki indexes, public comments sought at:
** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements
**
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design
* Added ASCII-folding for French (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144429)
* Had SPARQL workshop, materials at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/2016_SPARQL_Wor…
* Had Discernatron lunch, a lot of useful feedback
* Working on deploying codfw servers for WDQS
==== Interactive team ====
* <mapframe> to be deployed on non-large wikis soon
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Investigating low response to WLM CentralNotice campaign in South Korea
* Fixing CentralNotice MariaDB strict mode violations
* Finishing up queue work
* More donor data cleanup in CiviCRM - language preferences, placeholder
emails and addresses
=== RelEng ===
* Blocking
** no
* Blocked
** no
* Updates
** Reminder: no deploys week of Sept 26th
** Changes to beta cluster puppetmaster cherry-pick process Coming Soon™
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135427
Hi folks,
Many of us at WMF will be at a Product and Tech meeting here in SF, so
we decided not to hold the usual IRC office hour on #wikimedia-office.
I've updated "upcoming meetings" part of the status page with some
info on *next* week's meeting:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status>
Next week, on 2016-09-21, we plan to discuss Multi-Content Revisions.[1]
If y'all want to join a channel for an informal conversation, it seems
like #wikimedia-tech is usually a good place to find most of the
people who frequent the IRC office hour.
Rob
[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions
Hi all,
the Wikimedia Foundation's Reading Infrastructure team [1] is preparing to
work on exposing pageview data in the action API [2]. Pageview data is
already available as a standalone REST API [3] but we are hoping to make
access to that information more convenient by including it in the output of
other APIs as well.
This could include information like daily pageview totals for the wiki for
the last X day, monthly unique visitors, list of the most-viewed pages,
daily view totals for specific pages (integrated with other page
information the API provides).
It is important that we understand what use cases to expect when selecting
what information to include and making other design decisions; if you might
use such an API in the future, please leave a comment on the task [4] and
tell us how you would use it and what information you expect from it.
Thanks!
Gergő
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Tgr_(WMF)
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Reading_Infrastructure_team
[2] a.k.a. api.php or MediaWiki API - the one at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox
[3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/PageviewAPI
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144865
FYI
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Marti Johnson <mjohnson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 1:34 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Open call for Project Grant proposals (Sep
12-October 11)
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
The Wikimedia Foundation Project Grants program launches its second open
call today, September 12. We will be accepting proposals through October
11 for new ideas to improve Wikimedia projects.
Funds are available to support individuals, groups and organizations to
implement new experiments and proven ideas, whether focused on building a
new tool or gadget, organizing a better process on your wiki, researching
an important issue, coordinating an editathon series or providing other
support for community-building.
Ideas from the current Inspire Campaign on addressing harassment are very
welcome. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire>
Do you have have a good idea, but would like some feedback before
applying? Put it into the IdeaLab, where volunteers and staff can give you
advice and guidance on how to bring it to life. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab> Once your idea is ready,
it can be easily migrated into a grant request.
Marti Johnson and I will also be hosting weekly proposals clinics via
Hangouts for real-time discussions about the Project Grants Open Call.
We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. Dates and
times are as follows:
* Fri, Sep 16, 1400- 1500 UTC
* Tues, Sep 20, 0100 - 0200 UTC
* Wed, Sep 28, 1400 - 1500 UTC
* Tue, Oct 4, 2200 - 2300 UTC
* Tues, Oct 11, 0200 - 0300 UTC
* Tue, Oct 11, 1600 -1700 UTC
Links for Hangouts are available here: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>
We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and
make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into
motion, and submit your proposal between September 12 and October 11! <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Apply>
Please feel free to get in touch with me (mjohnson(a)wikimedia.org) or Alex
Wang (awang(a)wikimedia.org) with questions about getting started with your
project!
Warm regards,
Marti
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Hi all,
The previous announcement stated the window for Tuesday 9/15, which is not
a thing. Our migration will be done tomorrow, Tuesday 9/13 1500-1700. Sorry
for the confusion.
Dan
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Dan Duvall <dduvall(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We'll be migrating all Beta Cluster databases to new Debian jessie based
> instances next Tuesday, September 15, from 1500-1700 UTC. All Beta Cluster
> wikis will be in read-only mode during the migration.
>
> Please contact someone from WMF Release Engineering (#wikimedia-releng on
> freenode IRC) if you have any questions or concerns regarding this
> maintenance operation, or refer to the Phabricator task (T138778).
>
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138778
>
> Thanks!
> Dan
>
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> Software Engineer, Release Engineering
> Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org>
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Hi,
On Monday (2016-09-12), I plan on deploying a change that allows most
users to change the "content model" of a page[1] (the "editcontentmodel"
user right). This functionality has been available to administrators for
a few months now. The permission is similar conceptually to "move", so
it is being granted to all groups that have the "move" permission (and
taken away from those that don't have "move"). Specifics can be seen in
the Gerrit change[2].
This functionality is mostly technical, and documentation can be found
at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:ChangeContentModel>. Currently,
the main usecase is to allow any user to create a MassMessage target
list[3], but others are planned in the future.
If you find documentation missing, or want to change your wiki's
configuration, or have questions in general, feel free to respond via
email, or file a task in the MediaWiki-ContentHandler project and CC me.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85847
[2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/309066
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92795
Thanks!
-- Legoktm