Hi there,
The Technical Wishes Team of Wikimedia Germany is currently working on a
soon-to-be deployed major improvement of the diff view engine. [1]
It is now available on test wiki [2] and Mediawiki [3] and it would be
great if you could test it and tell us if you encounter any bugs. [4] The
deployment to all other wikis will hopefully happen in the near future.
While working on this, we also found an old bug in the diff engine:
Sometimes two paragraphs which are not related at all are considered a
changed paragraph: example [5]. We have fixed this bug now and it was
already deployed on all wikis by the end of October. [6] [7]
The bigger improvement of the diff view will be announced separately, once
the date for its deployment is fixed – expect it in a few weeks.
Regards,
Michael for the Technical Wishes Team
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Show_text_changes_whe…
[2] http://test.wikipedia.org
[3] http://mediawiki.org
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146781
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ImprovedDiff_-_Example_1_-_before2.png
[6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/356582/,
[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146781
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Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hi,
The Technical Collaboration team proposes the creation of a developer
support channel focusing on newcomers, as part of our Onboarding New
Developer program. We are proposing to create a site based on Discourse
(starting with a pilot in discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org) and to point the
many existing scattered channels there.
This is an initial proposal for a pilot. If the pilot is successful, we
will move it production. For that to happen we still need to sync well with
Wikimedia Cloud Services, Operations and the Wikimedia technical community.
Please check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discourse and share your
feedback.
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
(sorry for cross-posting ...)
Hello all,
we're really happy to announce that the new AdvancedSearch interface got
deployed as a beta feature to Mediawiki.org and test just 2 hours ago. [1]
AdvancedSearch enhances Special:Search through an advanced parameters form
and aims to make existing search options more visible and accessible for
everyone. [2]
The feature is a project by WMDE's Tech team and originates from the
Technical Wishes project. Many other people and teams helped making this
project happen, so stay tuned for the thank you section at the end of this
email :-) [3]
*Why AdvancedSearch*
The Search has great options to perform advanced queries, but often even
experienced editors don't know about it - this is what we found out when we
were conducting a workshop series on advanced search in several cities in
Germany in 2016. Together with contributors from German Wikipedia we've
discussed their desired search queries, explained how the syntax works and
how keywords like "hastemplate", "filetype" or "intitle" can be used and
combined to get the desired results.
The idea for the AdvancedSearch feature results out of these workshops,
where we not only discussed search but also designed first mocks for an
advanced search interface. [4]
*The first version, more deployments and other next steps*AdvancedSearch
supports some of the special search options the WMF's search team has been
implemented in the last years. The way the interface works, users don't
have to know the syntax behind each search field, but they can learn about
it if they want to. The first version of the feature comes with a first
selection of advanced search options, e.g. including support for
"hastemplate" or "intitle". The WMF's search team has started to work on a
'deepcat' functionality to make sub category search happen. We plan to add
support for this in the future, too.
If all goes well, we plan to deploy the beta feature on German and Arabic
Wikipedia by Wednesday, Nov 29. [5]
In the next 2-3 months we'd love to invite everyone to test the new feature
on those wikis: Comments, thoughs, bug reports ... - any feedback is much
appreciated!
Please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:AdvancedSearch for how to
use AdvancedSearch.
Deployments to other wikis can follow later.
*Thank you (finally!)*
This project was developed with the support from many different people from
the start, and this makes it very special to us: We would like to thank the
folks from the German Wikipedia community who participated in the workshops
and who were discussing and designing first ideas together with us. We
would like to thank all other people who gave valuable feedback on
Phabricator, onwiki and in real life. We would like to thank the Arabic
Wikipedia community for getting interested in AdvancedSearch, and for
offering to test this feature in an early stage. The credit for the
development work on AdvancedSearch goes to our FUN team, supported by the
team that usually works on Technical Wishes. Last but really not least we
would like to thank the great folks from the WMF's search team who have
supported this project from the start and who have done (and still do) the
necessary backend work that now got supported by the AdvancedSearch
extension.
Sorry for the long email, and thanks for reading :-)
Birgit (for the Technical Wishes team)
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180147 (Deployment ticket group 0)
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:AdvancedSearch
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/AdvancedSearch
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/AdvancedSearch/Worksh…
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180128 (Deployment ticket arwiki and
dewiki)
--
Birgit Müller
Community Communications Manager
Software Development and Engineering
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
*https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-11-29
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-11-29>*
*= 2017-11-29=*
== Callouts ==
* Reminder! This is your last few weeks of deployments for the
year/quarter! Deployment freeze starts the week of December 18th.
* Reminder! This is also the first week of the big fundraising campaign.
Please be extra careful not to break CentralNotice (js/skin changes,
resourceloader changes) or donate.wikimedia.org.
* s8 replica set of servers for wikidata (T177208) to be live on 9th
January- check scripts/config that assume wikidata is on s5!). We will have
a small period of read only that day.
* databases no longer guaranteed to be on port 3306 only (T178359)- check
also scripts that assume default/no port (should be transparent for most
people)
* Your performance metrics (esp first paint) may have changed on Nov 2nd.
This is due to a bug in our performance monitoring that we fixed on that
day.
* Please provide feedback on WikimediaUI (OOUI) icon overhaul at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M229 – plan to settle on set by next week
* Last name of thiemowmde changed, can I get an LDAP update?
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181130
* Special:Preferences was migrated to OOjs UI in wmf.10 (this week's
train), this changes the prefs UI substantially
== Audiences ==
=== Readers ===
==== iOS native app ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates: still working on 5.8
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2913/
==== Reading Infrastructure ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** working on Reading Lists performance
** continuing work on media, summary, and references endpoints
** considering undeploying trending-edits service
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180384
==== Web ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Business as usual (Chromium-based PDF service)! Next up: Performance
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178278
** Started work on updating/tidying the design of special pages on mobile:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169162
==== Multimedia ====
* Blocked by: N/A
* Blocking: N/A
* Updates
** MP3 uploads enabled Soon™ on Commons
** 3D product nearly ship-ready, heads-up for deploy coming at some point
** Wikibase/MediaInfo work for SDoC is progressing slowly
===== Maps =====
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates:
** Ops person back this week
===== Discovery =====
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates:
** automated Jenkins build for wikipedia.org portal working well
** updating documentation
=== Contributors ===
==== Global Collaboration ====
* Blocked by: nobody
* Blocking: ops for Flow dumps (talked to Ariel and came to an agreement,
but didn't have time to work on it last week with the holidays)
* Updates:
** RCFilters "live update" graduating out of beta in this week's train
** On behalf of Editing: Special:Preferences migration to OOjs UI in this
week's train, UI of Special:Preferences will change substantially
==== Parsing ====
* <section> tag code being tested.
** Code in beta cluster.
** Some fixes in progress based on tests. Unlikely to be deployed this
week, unless we get everything merged and tested today.
=== Community Tech ===
* Blocked by TechCom on global preferences
* Not blocking
* Our wishlist survey is in voting stage
==== UI Standardization ====
* Blocked: icons overhaul, pls see below. New iteration got out end of
second-last week, plan to settle by end of week – pls provide feedback
** OOUI v0.24.3 released
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md;v…;
among changes:
7 new features, among those:
*** Allow adding virtual viewport spacing (Bartosz Dziewoński)
*** DropdownInputWidget: Generate a hidden `<select>` in JS (Bartosz
Dziewoński),
*** MenuSelectWidget, PopupWidget: Automatically change popup direction if
there is no space (Bartosz Dziewoński)
4 design fixes and removing Opera < 15 special treatment
* Ongoing:
** OOUI & based products:
*** icons: Work on icon set to be more harmonious and align to WikimediaUI
Style Guide https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177432
- Provide specific feedback at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M229
*** Make Special:Preferences use OOUI – related UI/UX amendments
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180538
** Unify SVG markup across Foundation products
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178867
== Technology ==
==== Analytics ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Wikistats vetting almost complete, announcing next week
** Prometheus driven metrics on druid -
https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/prometheus-druid?orgId=1
** Working on jsonrefine on eventlogging so eventlogging data that was up
to now only available on MYSQL is available on Hadoop
** Productionising Superset
** Data on eventlogging slave back in compliance with privacy policy,
master data still being worked on.
==== Services ====
* Not attending personally
* Blockers: none
* Updates:
** Still reshaping cassandra cluster to migrate to Cassandra 3
** wikibase-addUsagesForPage job switched to kafka queue
=== Performance ===
* Blocking
* Blocked
* Updates
** Callout above re: performance metrics changing on Nov 2nd.
** Working with Mozilla on some perf regressions related to FF57
** Working on identifying some issues related to Chrome 62
=== Release Engineering ===
* Blocking
**
* Blocked
** [SSD] blocked on ops updating nodejs-devel base image: <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180524>
* Updates
** [MW Train] Reminder! This is your last few weeks of deployments for the
year/quarter! No non-emergency deploys starts the week of December 18th.
** [MW Train] The post mortem for T181006 (Watchlist and RecentChanges
failure due to ORES on frwiki and ruwiki) is scheduled for December 7th.
** [nodejs browser tests] CirrusSearch and Mobile are active with
migrations.
** [nodejs browser tests] Investigation of using mwbot instead of nodemw
(javascript api interfaces to MW). CirrusSearch uses mwbot. We use nodemw
(maintained by a Wikia engineer).
** [ruby] We will upgrade rubocop (Ruby linter/static analyzer) across the
corpus of extensions due to a security issue (pointed out by the new Github
security issue notification service). We (WMF production and CI) are not
affected by the issue AND we have officially deprecated our ruby browser
test stack (where 99% of all rubocup uses/dependencies are) BUT we’ll do it
:)
** [techdebt] Wider conversations regarding SLAs/stewardship of
components/software:
*https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Development_policy/Code_Stewardship*
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Development_policy/Code_Stewardship>
** [techdebt] 2nd of the 3 tech debt series of blog posts (after the 0th
introduction one on Code Health) is in drafting.
** [CI] We’ve migrated almost all of the tox (python) jobs to the new
container based CI infra.
=== Scoring Platform ===
* Blocked by:
** scap and network issues preventing us from continuing to test new ORES
cluster.
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181552
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181661
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** We've been having fun with heavy outages for the last day, seems to have
been stabilized a few hours ago.
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181538
=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by: none
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
* Merged WIkidata description indexing, starting reindex after deploy
* Finished review of Serbian morphological libraries, some promise but
needs bugfixes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178926#3790458
* Working on improvements to LTR training
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177520
* Improving completion suggester interaction with namespaced prefix search
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178474
* Working on porting Selenium tests from Ruby to JS
* Working on upgrade to Elastic 5.5
* Working on Wikidata fulltext search
=== Technical Operations ===
* Blocking
** [Releng] blocked on ops updating nodejs-devel base image: <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180524>
* Blocked
**
* Updates
** s8 replica set of servers for wikidata (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177208 ) to be live on 9th January-
check scripts/config that assume wikidata is on s5!). We will have a small
period of read only that day.
** databases no longer guaranteed to be on port 3306 only (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178359 )- check also scripts that assume
default/no port (should be transparent for most people)
** service-running was spamming statsd, incident report
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20171125-statsd
== Wikidata ==
* Fiddling with the concept of "sub-entities" in the Wikibase storage
layer: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163724
* We are aware of the blocker for the MediaInfo team, planning to tackle it
this week: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177022
* Last name of thiemowmde changed, can I get an LDAP update?
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181130
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Banners are up! Watching the money roll in
* Mostly working on visualizations - our funky internal dashboard and more
data for grafana
* Helping fr-not-tech get good info, debugging campaign configuration
* Deployed one low-level CiviCRM thing to deal better with database
contention
=== MediaWiki Platform ===
* Continuing on schema changes for MCR, etc...
You are right. I just checked, vector works for me either. Thank you all.
Igal
On Nov 22, 2017 01:50, "Stas Malyshev" <smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi!
> Hello, Birgit. Unfortunately, I can't open a phab ticket, because I'm on
> mobile, and there is no way to upload a file to phabricator from mobile.
> So, I'll answer you here. I'm on Lollipop, use internal browser, timeless
> skin. I can't make a screenshot from this device, so I did it on another
Likely there's a problem with timeless, see:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181106
Vector works fine for me though. I guess that's why it's "beta" :)
--
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org
Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 4-5 pm
UTC** on #wikimedia-tech.
The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers,
topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over
"who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki
/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
This meeting is an offer by WMDE’s tech team. Hosts of tomorrows meeting
are: @Thiemo_WMDE & @Amir1.
Hope to see you there!
Michi (for WMDE’s tech team)
--
Michael F. Schönitzer
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Google Code-in 2017 just started:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2017
You might remember the announcement email from a few weeks ago.[1]
In the next seven weeks, many young people are going to make their
first contributions to Wikimedia. Expect many questions on IRC and
on mailing lists by newcomers who have never used IRC or lists
before. Your help and patience is welcome to provide a helping hand!
Thanks to all mentors who have already registered & provided tasks!
You have not become a mentor yet? Please consider it!
You get some smaller tasks fixed and it is fun!
* Think of easy tasks in your area that you could mentor.
Areas are: Code, docs/training, outreach/research, quality
assurance, and user interface. "Easy" means 2-3h to complete for
you, or less technical ~30min "beginner tasks" for onboarding).
* OR: provide an easy 'clonable' task (a task that is generic and
could be repeated many times by different students).
* Note that you commit to answer to students' questions and to
evaluate their work within 36 hours (but the better your task
description the less questions. No worries, we're here to help!)
For the full info, please check out
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors
and ask if something is unclear.
Thank you again for giving young contributors the opportunity to learn
about and work on all aspects of Free & Open Source Software projects.
Now bring your tasks!
Cheers,
andre
[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-October/088956.html
--
Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
The latest version of all major browsers support C/C++/etc code compiled to
WebAssembly <http://webassembly.org/> ("wasm") format, in addition to the
older "asm.js" style of compilation targeting a subset of JavaScript
directly.
As far as I know the first library that MediaWiki uses to support
WebAssembly is ogv.js, my codec & playback library which we use for playing
media on Safari, IE, and Edge. ogv.js is packaged with the
TimedMediaHandler extension, and we've used its asm.js mode for about two
years now.
I'd like to enable the WebAssembly mode in production for the faster
compilation times, but want to double-check that we've established some
best practices for WebAssembly usage first.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181451 -- I've started up a provisional
RFC, currently more of a document with a few pain points called out:
* packaging (check in binaries from a library, or use a package manager
like npm?)
* loading (loading .wasm or .js files as assets, vs what can use RL)
* security (where to concentrate for security reviews, etc)
This may grow into a recommendation on how to package & load things and
some tweaks to RL. If anybody has any questions about the scariness that is
wasm, give a shout. I want to make it not-too-scary. :)
-- brion
Hi Sarah,
thanks for working on this!
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Sarah R <srodlund(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Documentation like this is critical for our open software environment to
> work. I'm organizing a special interest group[4] to address
> documentation needs. If you have any questions or comments, please dont
> hesitate to reach out and share!
> [4] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SIGDOCS
>
Is there any particular reason to do it on wikitech? Most of the other SIGs
[1] and most of our documentation is on mediawiki.org (which is in general
a better maintained place). The ORES docs live there too, apart from a few
pages that are concerned with operations issues.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special_Interest_Groups
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-11-22
= 2017-11-22 =
== Callouts ==
* If you use and process Parsoid HTML, please test your code with Parsoid
master (merged patches for section tag addition + use of figure-inline tag)
* It looks like Remex got turned off on the cluster on Oct 26 as part of
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178632 .. I didn't know about this till
last week (because of some gaps in Phab notifications). When you switch off
a feature in production, please make sure the responsible folks know about
it. :-)
* [Performance] Seeing some performance regressions being reported under
Firefox 57; working with Mozilla to understand whether these are real or if
they're due to a bug in FF57 NavTiming.
* node service-runner provides node GC metrics to statsd from v2.4.3 so all
node services can have it out of the box
* Biggest fundraising campaign of the year starts Tuesday - please
double-check with fr-tech if you're about to do anything that might affect
CentralNotice or donatewiki.
== Audiences ==
=== Readers ===
==== iOS native app ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates: still working on 5.8
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2913/
==== Android native app ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
==== Reading Web ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** A print button was added to the mobile site
** We made progress with working out how to deploy Chromium inside
puppeteer and are continuing to work with services to get the pdf render
service up and running
==== Reading Infrastructure ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** working on Reading Lists performance improvements, hoping to deploy next
week
** work continues on summary and media endpoints
==== Multimedia ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates: WMDE is moving on some work for MediaInfo, in the meantime
Multimedia is focusing on 3D, which should be ready to move out in early
December.
==== Discovery ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Deployed SVGs on www.wikipedia.org portal
===== Maps =====
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates:
** Paul attended training at PGConf Seattle and intends to put together a
learning session
** Ops person out this week
=== Community Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** we were mostly conducting our survey.
=== Contributors ===
==== Editing ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
==== Parsing ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Next big Parsoid deploy
*** section-tag and figure-inline-tag patches merged; YET to bump HTML
version number to 1.6.0
*** html5 ids patch in WIP; depending on how that goes, we may bundle that
with the next deploy with a HTML version bump from 1.5.0 -> 1.6.0;
*** If you use and process Parsoid HTML, please test your code with Parsoid
master
*** Parsoid should be backward compatible for the html -> wikitext
direction; we should be able to process v1.5.0 or the newer HTML (or some
combination of the two as well :)). Please report bugs if you see any
problems.
*** If testing early next week goes okay and we get a green from everyone,
we will deploy next Thursday. If not, will push to the following week
** Tidy replacement
*** It looks like Remex got turned off on the cluster on Oct 26 as part of
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178632 -- for whatever reason, Phab
didn't notify me when James added me to the ticket, and Tim may not have
known either. I've added both of us to the RemexHTML project .. so
hopefully will receive project notifications in the future. But, when you
switch off a feature in production, please make sure the responsible folks
know about it. :-)
*** Tim has fixed the problem and the fix will go out next week.
** Linter
*** Over the last week, I finished running a script to re-generate linter
issues for all pages on all (active) wikis. This should hopefully have
initialized linter issues for all wikis (and removed false positives based
on Parsoid fixes).
==== Global Collaboration ====
* Blocked by: nobody
* Blocking: ops on dumps, Roan STILL hasn't talked to Ariel, apologies
again, talking to Ariel as we speak
* Updates:
** Translate extension's RC filters are now converted to the new system,
that means almost all WMF wikis are fully converted except super edge cases
like incubator
** Live update on RC will probably be deployed next week, stay tuned for
announcement
==== Contributors Design ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
=== Cloud Services ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Annual Toolforge survey kicked off on Monday; will run for 2 weeks --
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177126
** After much load testing we think Labvirt1015 is fit for duty.
** Andrew back from vacation
** Cloud VPS instances were switched to use Puppet's future parser on Monday
=== MediaWiki Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
=== Performance ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Seeing some performance regressions being reported under Firefox 57;
working with Mozilla to understand whether these are real or if they're due
to a bug in FF57 NavTiming.
=== Release Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
** ops: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180524 Upgrade latest
docker-registry.wikimedia.org/nodejs-devel to stretch]
* Blocking:
* Updates:
* [Team vacations] Mukunda is out all week. Dan is only working on Monday.
And of course Thurs/Fri for all US staff.
* [MediaWiki Train] Catching up after last week’s delay due to the wikidata
database crash. No MW train this week. Played catchup yesterday. All on
wmf.8
* [Offsite] More team offsite logistics. Will be doing some cross team
gathering with Reading (who we’re sharing a hotel/couple days overlap with).
* A lot of Gerrit repository and Github mirror administration this past
week.
* [Phabricator] Caused and fixed a degradation of Phabricator’s search
functionality last Wednesday night/Thursday morning (15th and 16th). We
apologize if you were affected by this. [wiki] [email]
=== Research ===
* Blocked by:
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* Updates:
=== Scoring Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** https://mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES/FAQ &
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SIGDOCS
** draft_quality data coming to English Wikipedia, doing small DB key
things.
** wp10 (article quality) data is going to be available for English
Wikipedia
** Nov 20 outage on ruwiki and frwiki, Special:RecentChanges and Special:W
atchList caused by ORES. We're drafting an incident report by the end of
the day.
** We'd love to work with Global Collaboration to improve robustness on the
pages that rely on ORES, to provide graceful degradation.
** Perhaps Global Collaboration wants to share QA resources?
*** Roan: Happy to, on both.
=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by: none
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
** Working on improvements to LTR training
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177520
** Improving completion suggester interaction with namespaced prefix search
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178474
** Preparing for next relevancy survey
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176428
** Reviewing Serbian morphological libraries
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178926
** Working on porting Selenium tests from Ruby to JS
** Working on upgrade to Elastic 5.5 - search clusters upgraded, logstash
next
** Working on indexing Wikidata descriptions and adding them to fulltext
search
=== Security ===
* Blocked by:
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* Updates:
** Reviews:
*** mediawiki-services-chromium-render
*** Ex:WikipediaExtracts
=== Services ===
* Blocked by: none
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
** Continuing to reshape cassandra cluster and moving more nodes to
Cassandra 3 cluster
** service-runner provides node GC metric now to statsd
*** After a deploy you will be able to make a GC graph this for your
service
***
https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/jobqueue-eventbus?panelId=13&ful…
=== Technical Operations ===
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== Wikidata ==
* We are aware of review requests for description indexing for Search, as
well as the request by the Structured Commons team.
* RDF exports support foreign repository now, needed for Structured Data on
Commons: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161592
* Worked on making statements on Forms editable and persistent:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163724
* Worked on fine-grained usage tracking in Wikibase' Lua library:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172914
* Worked on caching constraint check results:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179849
== German Technical Wishlist ==
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==== Fundraising Tech ====
* CentralNotice:
** Aware that the Selenium tests are still on Ruby, would like to put off
the nodejs update till January.
** Deployed a little bit of debugging code for the large banner switch
campaign mixin
* Payments forms: deployed little style fixes to buttons, putting off
deploying validation changes till January
* CiviCRM: contact de-duplication improvements for large dollar amount
donors, de-duplicating organization records
* More refinements to stats reported to Prometheus
