Wikitech-l March 2019

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69 discussions

by Jeremy Baron

Hi, On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:36 PM, David Strine <dstrine(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > We will be holding this brownbag in 25 minutes. The Bluejeans link has > changed: > > https://bluejeans.com/396234560 I'm not familiar with bluejeans and maybe have missed a transition because I wasn't paying enough attention. is this some kind of experiment? have all meetings transitioned to this service? anyway, my immediate question at the moment is how do you join without sharing your microphone and camera? am I correct thinking that this is an entirely proprietary stack that's neither gratis nor libre and has no on-premise (not cloud) hosting option? are we paying for this? -Jeremy

9 months, 2 weeks

New DB_REPLICA constant; DB_SLAVE deprecated

by Aaron Schulz

As of 950cf6016c, the mediawiki/core repo was updated to use DB_REPLICA instead of DB_SLAVE, with the old constant left as an alias. This is part of a string of commits that cleaned up the mixed use of "replica" and "slave" by sticking to the former. Extensions have not been mass converted. Please use the new constant in any new code. The word "replica" is a bit more indicative of a broader range of DB setups*, is used by a range of large companies**, and is more neutral in connotations. Drupal and Django made similar updates (even replacing the word "master"): * https://www.drupal.org/node/2275877 * https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692/files & https://github.com/django/django/commit/beec05686ccc3bee8461f9a5a02c607a023… I don't plan on doing anything to DB_MASTER, since it seems fine by itself, like "master copy", "master tape" or "master key". This is analogous to a master RDBMs database. Even multi-master RDBMs systems tend to have a stronger consistency than classic RDBMs slave servers, and present themselves as one logical "master" or "authoritative" copy. Even in it's personified form, a "master" database can readily be thought of as analogous to "controller", "governer", "ruler", lead "officer", or such.** * clusters using two-phase commit, galera using certification-based replication, multi-master circular replication, ect... ** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)#Appropriateness_of_… *** http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/master?utm_campaign=sd&utm_medium… -- -Aaron

3 years, 5 months

What would you like to see in gerrit?

by Paladox

Hi, what would you like to see in gerrit or improved? I've been working been working on developing a plugin that pull's in zuul's status into PolyGerrit. See the running demo at https://imgur.com/a/uBk2oxQ . Im also planning on adding "recheck" and "check experimental" as buttons to PolyGerrit's ui to improve CI. This will help new users who can recheck (and existing users that either forgot they can type this or haven't learned yet). Note that i cannot promise that anything suggested in this thread will be worked on, but i can try my best. See tasks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214068 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214631 .

4 years, 7 months

Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—April 3rd

by Trey Jones

The Search Platform Team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come ask us anything about Wikimedia search! Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting. Details for our next meeting (note that we're on daylight savings time, so the time has shifted relative to GMT): Date: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-9:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CEST Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww *N.B.:* Google Meet System Requirements <https://support.google.com/meet/answer/7317473> Hope to talk to you in a week! Trey Jones Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation

4 years, 8 months

Dynamically setting the content of a LayoutPanel in OOUI

by Huji Lee

In the script I am working on,[1] I have a PanelLayout that is defined like this: this.previewResult = new OO.ui.PanelLayout({ expanded: true, padded: true, framed: true, $content: '' }); Later on, I would like to modify the content of this; specifically, I want to use MW API to retrieve the parsed output of some short wikitext. For now, however, I just want to try out the concept by replacing the content with a simple <p> tag. Evidently, this line of code does not do the trick: dialog.previewResult.$content = '<p>Something</p>'; That is, it does update the value of the $content property for the OOUI object, but that does not result in the object getting re-rendered. None of the setter functions for OO.ui.PanelLayout seem to do the trick either. What is the correct way to do this? If PanelLayout is not the right object type for this purpose, what is?

4 years, 8 months

TechCom Radar 2019-03-27

by Kate Chapman

Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * IRC meeting RFC: Skin templating <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217158> April 3rd at 2pm PST (22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET) in #wikimedia-office * Reviewed inactive or stalled RFCs and trying to figure out the best way to handle them. You can also find our meeting minutes at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Minutes> See also the TechCom RFC board <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-rfcs/>. If you prefer you can subscribe to our newsletter here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:TechCom_Radar> Thanks, Kate -- Kate Chapman Senior Program Manager, Core Platform Wikimedia Foundation kchapman(a)wikimedia.org

4 years, 8 months

Easier mapping from Wikistats1 to Wikistats2 metrics

by Nuria Ruiz

Hello! Analytics team would like to announce couple changes. We are working towards an easier way to navigate metrics that appear in both Wikistats1 and Wikistats2 and compare numbers, please take a look at changes deployed today for (for example) Italian Wikipedia: https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/metrics/it.wikipedia.org This is an example of a definition of active editors that matches Wikistats1: https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/it.wikipedia.org/contributing/active-edito… As always please file bugs (suggestions are fine too) on Phab using this handy link: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/?title=Wikistats%20Bu… Thanks, Nuria

4 years, 8 months

Debugging Wikimedia CI

by Kosta Harlan

Hi all, Per a colleague's suggestion, I'm circulating two recent blog posts about debugging Wikimedia CI that you might find interesting & hopefully also useful: - Help my CI job fails with exit status -11 [1] - Debugging integration tests in Wikimedia’s CI [2] And if you enjoy those, definitely read about the latest updates to Quibble [3] too! Kosta [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/152/help_my_ci_job_fails_… [2] https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/help-all-tests-a… [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/155/quibble_hibernated_it… -- Kosta Harlan (he/him/his) Sr Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

4 years, 8 months

2019-03-27 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

by Željko Filipin

Hi, I can not facilitate SoS next week. Please let me know off list if you can facilitate. If you're already coming to the meeting, you know how to do it. The only other duties are archiving the notes and sending them to wikitech-l. It's documented: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums#Facilitator_responsibilities Thanks, Željko -- For HTML version see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-03-27 =2019-03-27= == Callouts == * Research launched call for feedback on section recommendations. Please take a look if you're interested: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2019-March/006728.html * Our JD for a Senior Software Engineer on Scoring Platform is live https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1608084 * WikimediaEditorTasks will (tentatively) go live on wikidatawiki on Thurs after the WM train rolls. ** It's mostly internal-facing (for consumption by the apps) and will not get any meaningful traffic at first (while the Android team tests), but in coming weeks please keep an eye out for (unlikely) impact on page save time & DB replication performance. == Audiences == === Contributors === ==== Community Tech ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Upcoming work to enhance the UserInfo and GlobalUserInfo APIs with a new "all" parameter. ==== Anti-Harassment Tools ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Beginning on some restructuring of the Block class which might end up in some deprecations to Block functions. More to come when we know the real impact. ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Updates: ** Section Editing on VE mobile has been live on Bengali, Hebrew and Cantonese wikis for one week: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218375 **On Thursday, 28-March, Section Editing will be live for contributors to Hindi, Arabic, Persian, Indonesian, Marathi, Malay, Malayalam, Thai, Azerbaijani, Albanian wikis: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218939 **We will begin an A/B test on Section Editing on mobile with this deployment. Details: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218851 **We deployed an interim patch intended to resolve the Editing toolbar on mobile VE not being sticky on iOS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218414. This behavior will be addressed more holistically next quarter. ==== Growth ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** (New task) Waiting on Growth for deployment of ORES filters for Spanish Wikiquote https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219160 * Updates: **defining new schemas for newcomer homepage https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219250 ==== Language ==== * Blocked by: None * Blocking: * Updates: ** Thanks to Analytics for fixing MT dashboard at Dashiki ** Slow week: Team offsite this week. === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **6.2.1 is in beta https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2.1-beluga-on-stilts/ ***Find & Replace ***Editing onboarding ***Other bug fixes & editing enhancements **Editing features on iOS are going through external & internal user testing - if you want to help, please reach out at nharateh(a)wikimedia.org ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:Released 2.7.273 ** Continuing working on visual changes of suggested edits ** Fix bugs ==== Readers Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Summary: continuing advanced mobile contributions features, planning for next year, and the MobileFrontend architecture investment project. ** Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend): *** Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions **** Add history link to actions menu T213352 **** Display core version of history page T216420 **** Allow easier access to user modes T218625 **** AMC toggle takes two taps to turn off/on T219028 **** ManualLogEntry::publish bug T218940 *** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFro… **** Refactor NotificationsOverlay T219036 **** Refactor ImageOverlay T216198 **** Refactor NotificationOverlay T217296 **** Refactor TalkSectionAddOverlay T217102 **** Refactor BetaOptinPanel T217298 *** ExternalGuidance extension review and support *** Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T218809 T214549 T215890 T198534 T218807 T218731 ** Desktop website (Popups) *** Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews **** WMDE reference previews review and support T67114 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews **** Bugfix for double pokey on some page previews T204627 ** Planning *** MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture planning for next fiscal year ==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: Android team on WikimediaEditorTasks promotion to wikidatawiki * Updates: ** WikimediaEditorTasks *** Deployed on Beta Cluster and testwikidatawiki for testing. Planning to promote to wikidatawiki tomorrow after MW train. ** mobile-html *** scheme-less URLs T217348 *** Removed navboxes T216074 *** Allow app:// protocol in mobile-html CSP headers T218147 ==== Multimedia ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** depicts tags on commons File pages being tested by the community on beta ** scrambling to get it ready for production release ** next steps - depicts in upload wizard, searching by depicts tags ==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** PHP Port ongoing; roughly about 25% done; Many of the hardest bits are now behind us, now entering more of the raw porting phase. ** Reminder: While we are porting, we are unlikely to take up any bug fixing in Parsoid; but if there are any bugs blocking you, please let us know and we can talk about it. ==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** working on goals ** continuing work as detailed last week === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Upgraded payments cluster to MediaWiki 1.31 and PHP 7. *** Working on updating tests ** CiviCRM *** clarifying stats on recurring donations https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218616 *** Fixing inconsistent data: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152474 *** Further integrating data imported from third party bulk mail sender: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217603 ** Making fancy versions of email opt-in page: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218240 ** More work on de-coupling front end payments forms from backend db: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215453, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215462 === Core Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** T198341 (remove some db fields for MCR Schema migration): first patch set merged, started second patch set ** T213893 (maintenance options bug affecting Semantic MediaWiki): changes per code review, awaiting merge or additional comments ** Q4 planning === Performance === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Implemented Element Timing for Images ** Various postgres fixes in light of quibble-vendor-mysql-hhvm-docker fails on EchoDiscussionParserTest https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218388 ** More RDBMS cleanup patches (e.g. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/498263/ & https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/498102/ ) ** BagOStuff Fixes and improvements *** Unable to store parser output in StashEdit (Memcached error: ITEM TOO BIG) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204742 ** arclamp: Add redis_channel option to xenon-log, and various other patches to generalise more of xenon-log into arclamp-log, in prep for PHP7-Excimer logging. – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176916 ** resourceloader: Improve the foreign-resources.yaml documentation and create registrations for all JS libs shipping in core. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203694 === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/CI Futures WG/Report https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/CI_Future… ** Gerrit upgraded to 2.15.12 *** Shout if there is weirdness (irc, phab, email) ** Train Health: *** Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.22 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206676 **** Many problems but still finished on time *** This week: 1.33.0-wmf.23 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206677 **** T218940 Exception "At least one of: RCID, revision ID, and log ID MUST be specified" from ManualLogEntry::publish [moved from wmf.22] - possibly fixed **** T219380 [regression] API-only preferences can't be set - in progress *** Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.24 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206678 === Research === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Launched call for feedback on section recommendations: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2019-March/006728.html ** Finalized Q4 goals ** Starting to create the next annual plan ** Started collecting data for CitationUsage: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213969 ** Continuing work on Oozifying article recommendations: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211981 === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: ** (New task) Waiting on Growth for deployment of ORES filters for Spanish Wikiquote https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219160 * Blocking: * Updates: ** We had an incident during a redis reboot. Downtown ~40 minutes. ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218791 ) ** New AI proposal: Topic Embeddings https://docs.google.com/document/d/18A-Opub-LQuKDG9IgvCTA4w_gQAk4CgX1P76bXG… === Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Moved WikibaseMediaInfo to rely on WikibaseCirrusSearch: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218714 ** Deployed WikibaseLexemeCirrusSearch on BETA, production next https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216206 ** Deployed new Blazegraph/WDQS version with many bug fixes ** Working on ES 6 upgrade (almost done): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282 ** Setting up CloudElastic servers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216206 ** Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108 ** Working on moving CirrusSearch code out of Wikibase to a separate extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190022 ** Working on moving out search parts of Lexeme extension to separate extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216206 ** Working on WDQS performance improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217925 === Security === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: Due to vandalism in Gerritt, team has limited updates this week ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216419: Review should begin this week ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76782: To be sunset end of this week === Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: ** None * Blocking: ** None * Updates: ** Wrapping up goals == TechCom == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** RFC Approved: RfC: Standards for external services in the Wikimedia infrastructure. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208524 ** RFC Approved: The Great Namespaceization and Reorg https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166010 ** Meeting today pushed until next week RFC: Skin templating https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217158 == Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * SoS etherpad (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Scrum-of-Scrums) used to have many past meetings. Those are archived at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums . Etherpad now has notes for just the last meeting. Let Željko know if that breaks your workflow.

4 years, 8 months

2019-03-20 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

by Željko Filipin

For HTML version see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-03-20 =2019-03-20= == Callouts == * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar * From RI, to RelEng(?): Does anyone know definitively whether enabling an extension in the Beta Cluster requires in practice that the extension submodule be present in all MW branches currently running in production? See discussion on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/496577/ . * Parsing Team requesting SRE to take a look at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213493 * If your project is using RemexHtml, please update to the latest version (2.0.2). HTML parsing and DOM building is now 7x faster on large DOMs. * Vandalism fighting in gerrit is taking a toll on SRE, Releng, Security. Goal planning ongoing but inevitably partly delayed, SRE asks for your requests for next quarter. * Analytics: Research is starting data collection for CitationUsage schemas on enwiki on 03/21: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213969 * Performance, Readers Web: Research is running reader trust survey on enwiki during 03/18-03/21: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217576 * Release Engineering: train blocked, branch is cut but it's not even on group 0 yet, might be at groups 0 and 1 later today, depending on problems * RelEng: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/497600 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/496843 * From Performance to Security: Possible privacy issue in Chrome 73 on Android https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218618 == Audiences == === Contributors === ==== Community Tech ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Anti-Harassment Tools ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Updates: ** ==== Growth ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Language ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **6.2.1 is in beta https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2.1-beluga-on-stilts/ ***Find & Replace ***Editing onboarding ***Other bug fixes & editing enhancements ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by:Android is ready with the ‘Suggested Edits’ for a beta release. Blocked by API production release. * Blocking: * Updates: **Ready for enhanced search feature in ‘My Lists’. Waiting for an upstream fix. **Minor enhancement on Tablet. ==== Readers Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Summary: deploying advanced mobile contributions, planning for next year, and continuing the MobileFrontend architecture investment project. ** Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend): *** Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions **** Deploy to Arabic, Indonesian, and Spanish Wikipedias **** Tag Thanks actions with AMC tag T215477 **** Cannot access user contributions when following red link to user page on mobile T201339 *** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFro… **** Refactor ImageOverlay T216198 **** Refactor NotificationOverlay T217296 **** Refactor TalkSectionAddOverlay T217102 *** QuickSurveys **** Consultation and support for Research *** ExternalGuidance extension review and support *** Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T218069 T218731 T198534 T218173 ** Desktop website (Popups) *** Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews **** WMDE reference previews review and support T67114 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews **** Bugfix for double pokey on some page previews T204627 ** Planning *** RFC: Section headings should have a clickable anchor T18691 *** RFC: Add a frontend build step to skins/extensions to our deploy process T199004 *** RFC: Let's stop using QUnit as a mechanism for integration tests T212521 *** MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture planning for next fiscal year ==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: enabling the WikimediaEditorTasks extension in production is blocked on performance review (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218087 ) * Blocking: Android Suggested Edits feature final testing & rollout blocked on WikimediaEditorTasks APIs being available in production (see "Blocked By") * Updates: ** WikimediaEditorTasks *** The extension is code-complete for launch but is blocked on a performance review requested as an outcome of security review ==== Multimedia ==== * Updates ** adding 'depicts' statements almost ready - expecting to get onto testcommons next week ** next release under way too - new Search UI for depicts statements ** working on qunit tests for MediaInfo extension ==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: ** Parsing Team requesting SRE to take a look at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213493 * Blocking: * Updates: ** If your project is using RemexHtml, please update to the latest version (2.0.2). HTML parsing and DOM building is now 7x faster on large DOMs. ==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** EventGate deployed and working, first part of Modern Event Platform to come online ** Dealing with a couple of outages around EventLogging ingestion and validation, no data loss ** Adjusting for the comment/actor refactor in mediawiki databases is complete ** Mediawiki History process should be 5 days faster next month, pulling from our new cloud replica ** Ongoing work on testing TLS and Kerberos in our test Hadoop cluster ** Lots of work on data quality and metrics computation for parity with Wikistats 1, important now that Erik is no longer releasing reports ** Wikistats 2 UI work, metric groups and browse metrics page === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Have a date for payments-wiki upgrade: March 25th ** Deployed a core fix for page restrictions caching bad values for a day: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217649 *** Doesn't seem to have had bad effects, but let us know if you see anything that might be related ** Fixed an issue truncating non-latin names and breaking json_encode for main CC processor's new API ** CiviCRM: merge features, performance tweaks, and third-party mailer integration features (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217603) ** Work towards making front-end payments forms not depend on backend db: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215453, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215463 ** Email opt-in: capture opt-ins when a payment attempt fails ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217710) and pretty up the dedicated opt-in page (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218240) === Core Platform === * Blocked by: ** RelEng on T216089 (Undeploy UserMerge Extension from WMF production) for T214317 (Phase out deprecated Title::isValidMoveTarget) * Blocking: * Updates: ** Q4 Goals ** Product plan for new extension interface ** Program for EMWCon ** T214317 (Phase out deprecated Title::isValidMoveTarget) ** T211125 (Move service-runner to new logging infrastructure) ** Request ID, log filtering in Kask ** PHP Backend for WikiPEG ** Session storage deployment prep === Performance === * Blocked by: ** * Blocking: ** * Updates: ** Firefox 66 and Chrome 73 rolled out in our testing and soon to our users (Firefox seems to give users faster onLoad). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218786 ** Chrome 73 on Android has potential privacy issues see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218618 but we have the possibility to turn off the feature but needs active decision. === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: ** Release Engineering: train blocked, branch is cut but it's not even on group 0 yet, might be at groups 0 and 1 later today, depending on problems * Blocking: ** From RI: Does anyone know definitively whether enabling an extension in the Beta Cluster requires in practice that the extension submodule be present in all MW branches currently running in production? See discussion on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/496577/ . ** CPT on T216089 (Undeploy UserMerge Extension from WMF production) for T214317 (Phase out deprecated Title::isValidMoveTarget) ** Search Platform: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/497600 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/496843 * Updates: ** Help my CI job fails with exit status -11 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/152/help_my_ci_job_fails_… ** Train Health: *** Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.21 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206675 *** This week: 1.33.0-wmf.22 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206676 **** `scap clean` failure https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218783 *** Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.23 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206677 **** back to US time === Research === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Continuing work towards "Productionize article recommender systems" https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214074 ** Running reader trust survey on enwiki: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217576 ** Starting data collection for CitationUsage schemas on enwiki: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213969 === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Search Platform === * Blocked by: RelEng: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/497600 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/496843 * Blocking: * Updates: ** Started writing out design for CirrusSearch query extensibility: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch/Query_Construction ** Added debugging API to CirrusSearch to dump profiles: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218682 ** Fixed indexing table tags in wiki texts: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218001 ** Improved alerting for mjolnir daemons: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214494 ** New Blazegraph version released, tested OK, upgrading WDQS on Monday ** Working on ES 6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282 ** Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108 ** Working on moving CirrusSearch code out of Wikibase to a separate extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190022 ** Working on moving out search parts of Lexeme extension to separate extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216206 === Security === * Blocked by:None * Blocking:None * Updates: **Due to vandalism in Gerritt, team has no updates this week === Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: ** The Vandal * Blocking: ** Parsing Team requesting SRE to take a look at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213493 * Updates: ** Vandalism fighting, vandalism fighting, vandalism fighting. == TechCom == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** IRC Meetings Today *** RFC: Add a frontend build step to skins/extensions to our deploy process https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199004 March 20 2pm PST (21:00 UTC, 22:00 CET) in #wikimedia-office *** RFC: Let's stop using QUnit as a mechanism for integration tests https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212521 March 20 2:45pm PST (21:45 UTC, 21:45 CET) in #wikimedia-office ** Last Calls Ending Today *** The Great Namespaceization and Reorg https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166010 ending March 20 1pm PST (20:00 UTC, 21:00 CET) *** RfC: Standards for external services in the Wikimedia infrastructure. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208524 ending March 20 1pm PST (March 20 20:00 UTC, 21:00 CET) ** RFCs recently under discussion *** Remove .m. subdomain, serve mobile and desktop variants through the same URL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214998 *** RFC: Skin templating https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217158 == Wikidata == * Blocked by: ** none * Blocking: ** none (we are aware of) * Updates: ** Work continues on new responsive term view on items and property pages: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/3620/ ** Work continues on Schema functionality (defining the "schema" Wikidata items of particular kind should follow): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/3789/ ** Next stab on improvement to Wikidata/Wikibase storage layer starts next week == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates: **

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