Thanks for this update. I would like to ask for more information about what is happening with regard to "Product and design are collating research and interviews from Wikimania and working on advanced contributions". Can someone who is familiar with that work please share more information? Feel free to fork to a separate thread.
Thanks,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 5:58 PM, Grace Gellerman ggellerman@wikimedia.org wrote:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-08-01
= 2018-08-01= == Callouts ==
- SREs say FYI:
** Switchover tentative timeline announced. Please take a look and voice concerns if any
Switchover:
Services: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 14:30 UTC Media storage/Swift: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 15:00 UTC Traffic: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 19:00 UTC Mediawiki: Wednesday, September 12th 2018: 14:00 UTC
Switchback:
Traffic: Tuesday, October 9th 2018 19:00 UTC (and maybe some prep work on Monday) Mediawiki: Wednesday, October 10th 2018: 14:00 UTC Services: Thursday, October 11th 2018 14:30 UTC Media storage/Swift: Thursday, October 11th 2018 15:00 UTC
- MCR Schema migrations are happening
** Beta is set to write both / read new with no problems identified ** Production set to write both / read old this week ** Starting with migration scripts to copy data from old schema to new one
== Audiences == === Readers === ==== iOS native app ====
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- Updates:
**6.0 in beta ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.0-walrus-on-a-unicycle/), expected to push another beta this week
==== Android native app ====
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** Maintenance update released to Beta, will go to production tomorrow (Thurs) ** User testing of navigation design prototypes will commence shortly.
==== Readers Web ====
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** RFC: Modernise our JavaScript with the goal that the startup module and mediawiki object should not depend on jQuery https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200868 ** Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend): *** Page issues UI and instrumentation: T191532 T191303 T197932 T197931 T200867 *** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture: T188261 T197133 T197639 *** Other fixes and hygiene T193172 T200491 T186823 T199282 T199000 T199066 T197110 T198151 ** Product and design are collating research and interviews from Wikimania and working on advanced contributions
==== Readers Infrastructure ====
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** mobile-html exposed but needs fixes for CSP header and a URL to CSS. Won't run CollapseTable transform on server for the time being. ** Maps: *** New tile regeneration cron job for low-zoom vector tiles https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194787 *** Snapshot low DPI bug is waiting for a pull request review from upstream on third party library https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152196 *** Working on migrating test servers to Cloud VPS *** Working with SRE (Gehel) on migrating all servers to Debian Stretch
==== Multimedia ====
- No representative today - two team members on vacation and Mark has a
conflicting meeting
- Updates
** Breaking change in MediaWiki Core OOUI widget nearly caught us out - luckily something else broke in the meantime so the related fatal never occurred because of another fatal. Both fixed now. ** Search for SDC coming along slowly with various people on vacation. ** Next up: OOUI rendering for SDC first feature (captions), coming down the pipeline soon™ ** MCR rollout plan basically set, we'll need some time to sort out our integration, but should all work out well.
=== Contributors === ==== Community Tech ====
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==== Anti-Harassment Tools ====
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==== Editing ====
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** Updates: **Unblocked languages on previous issues. **
==== Parsing ====
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==== Growth ====
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==== Language ====
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** CX patches still blocked from merging due to test failures occuring in Wikibase Lexeme ** Thanks to everyone who helped/are helping to solve issues (4 separate ones) that prevent merging patches to CX&Translate
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** Providing guidance on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195910 (ios app language selection related issue)
- Updates:
** Grant Metrics enabled for translation in translatewiki.net ** Niklas will work on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195293 (follow-ups to an issue causing an outage a while ago)
=== Audiences Design === ==== UI Standardization ====
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** Preparation of OOUI v0.27.6
== Technology == === Analytics ===
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** Outage in Eventlogging
- Updates:
** Added data quality checks in mediawiki history and mediawiki history reduced datasets ** Cleaning of user directories in hadoop ** Improved data sanitization in Eventlogging (salt creation/rotation) ** Improved partition cleaning in hive
=== Cloud Services ===
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=== Fundraising Tech ===
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** Making our exchange rates available on a WMF-visible spreadsheet for travel reimbursement ** Work continues on the ingress scripts for EventLogging data from banner and landing page impressions ** Experimenting with different ways to let donors from certain countries opt in to emails ** CiviCRM: new search filters, looking at mailing house data import bug and data erasure requests ** Reviewing CiviCRM core team code for contact view editor ** More error-handling work prompted by full-scale tests of card processor's new API
=== MediaWiki Core Platform ===
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** Cherry-picked API statsd improvement into production. Updated API dashboard in Grafana.
https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/api-backend- summary?refresh=5m&orgId=1
** Platform Evolution kick-offs and TechConf prep are ongoing ** Language variants for summary REST API deployed - Page Previews will now show your preferred variant *** Only serbian language is supported now, but more will be added as Parsoid supports more conversions ** Memory issues with EventStreams service in codfw affected other services, now resolved.
== Multi-Content Revisions ==
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** MCR Schema migrations are happening *** Beta is set to write both / read new with no problems identified *** Production set to write both / read old this week *** Starting with migration scripts to copy data from old schema to new one ** Discussion on-going on whether a production test wiki is necessary in addition to a test wiki on beta: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197616 *** Requires Wikibase change propagation ** Development and code review continues
=== Performance ===
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=== Release Engineering ===
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** Related to 1.32.0-wmf.14 train https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180724-Train# Actionables *** Feedback needed from Wikidata team on how T200340 (*Wikibase\DataModel\Entity\EntityIdParsingException $serialization must not be an empty string*) could be prevented. *** Feedback needed from Readers/Performance team(s) on how T200346 (*wmf.14 failing to execute ThumbnailRender jobs "error: ThumbnailRenderJob::run: HTTP request failure"*) could be prevented. *** Feedback needed from ORES/Wikidata team(s) on how T200412 (*PageTriage requires ORES to be installed*) could be prevented. *** Feedback needed from Wikidata team on how T200420 (*Wikidata dispatching stuck (not releasing lockmanager locks)*) could be prevented. *** Feedback needed from Readers team on how T200456 (*MapCacheLRU::has called with invalid key. Must be string or integer*) could be prevented.
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** Moved the beta deployment server to deployment-deploy01, yell if anything seems amiss there
=== Research ===
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- Updates:
** We've been analyzing the Citation usage data and improving the schema.
** Working on recommending missing articles based on translation pageview predictions. ** Have been interviewing candidates for a research position.
=== Scoring Platform ===
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** Waiting for a TechCom review of JADE proposal for deployment. *** Trying to get Global Collaboration's attention about this. *** "Everything is a wiki page", yet we're not allowed to deploy an extension that might increase the number of wiki pages... Who will be blocked next?
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** GSoC project by Saurabh Batra to identify donations fraud has resulted in a successful model! We're beginning integration work now.
=== Search Platform ===
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** Lexeme fulltext search merged: https://phabricator.wikimedia. org/T196188 ** Started collecting click stats for Wikidata completion search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196186 ** Quality constraints violations are now in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172380 ** Fixed intitle search not matching stopwords: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68969 ** Fixed problems in completion search on shard failure: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180807 ** Added task to purge query click data according to privacy policy: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189845 ** Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654 ** Working on ES 6.3 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197960 ** Working on Esperanto analyzer: https://phabricator.wikimedia. org/T200099 ** Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108
=== Security ===
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=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
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** None
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** None
- Updates:
** eqiad row B and C upgrades went quite fine with some minor hiccups ** work on the switchover preparation ongoing. Tentative timeline posted. Take a look at calls out section
== Wikidata ==
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** ContentTranslation CI red because of failing Wikidata-related tests: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200693 *** working on understanding and fixing failures
- Updates:
** Work in Lexicographical data continues: *** adding senses *** improving the editor workflow *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2292/
== German Technical Wishlist ==
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== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping ==
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** move the meeting to 2 hours earlier as soon as week of 2018-08-06- look for new invite! ** some changes to the notes template ** keep the meeting as is- a forum for teams to share updates and ask for help and keep the notes as useful as possible ** decision to handle goals dependencies outside this meeting _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l