= 2020-11-18 =
 
== Callouts ==
* SRE
** ICU 63 upgrade (has MediaWiki impact) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264991
*** enwiki notification up in VP already:
** Sporadic and weird issues with Italian ISPs continue. SRE is aware and working on them.  contact cdanis@ if you have more debugging data to share
* RelEng
** No Train next week
** No deploys next week Wed-Friday

 
== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping ==
* Updates:
 
== TechCom ==
* Blocking:
 
== Product ==
 
=== Community Tech ===
* Blocked by: -
* Blocking: -
* Updates: The Community Wishlist Survey is now live and that's gonna be our main focus for the following 6 weeks
 
=== Anti-Harassment Tools ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
 
=== Editing ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
 
=== Growth ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
 
=== iOS native app ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
 
=== Android native app ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
 
=== Web ===
* Blocked by:
    LangEng: Finishing up some changes to make ULS compatible with desktop improvements (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector/+/635679)
* Blocking:
    n/a
* Updates:
    Main focus is on finishing the work on the Vue search study. A VueTaskForce is meeting this week.
 
=== Product Infrastructure ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
 
=== Structured Data ===
* Blocked by: -
* Blocking: -
* Updates:
** Commons Media Search: continuing to add features and make UI improvements, exploring some potential methods for using wikidata to improve search results (e.g. traversing entity trees, using aliases)
** Media matching: in discussions with other teams to determine how this project overlaps with others
 
=== Abstract Wikipedia ===
* Blocked by:
** —
* Blocking:
** —
* Updates:
**The [[m:Abstract_Wikipedia/Wiki_of_functions_naming_contest|community contest]] for the name of the central wiki of functions has now closed, and the result is being reviewed with Legal and Comms. Our thanks to all who voted.
** Continuing work on using ZType data to enforce structure when editing ZObjects.
** Huge thanks to Daimona and DannyS712 for helping with a Phan issue blocking us from merging code T268055


=== Parsing ===
* Blocked by:
** This is a followup on a SoS update from a few weeks back. We would like Parsoid clients ( VisualEditor, ContentTranslation, StructuredDiscussion, MCS/PCS ) to act onhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266143 sooner than later. This should likely be a minor tweak in client code. We need confirmation that clients can handle this switch before we can make progress on making that change in Parsoid. Either leave a note on that phab task once you are done, or create a subtask and resolve it.
* Blocking:
* Updates:
     ** no updates
 
=== Language ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
** Web. Should be unblocked this week.
* Updates:
** T264756 Working on technical implementation plan for translatable modules. Will make it public for feedback soon.
** T254481 Doing final tests on "Support sending TechNews using Special:MassMessage"
** T182433 Developing "Strong synchonization" for translatewiki.net which is a prerequisite for fully automated translation exports
** We fixed a bunch of production JavaScript errors in ULS. Fixes are waiting to be deployed.
** Polishing section translation MVP
 
=== Inuka ===
* Blocked by: - 
* Blocking: - 
* Updates:
** KaiOS app
*** Submitted to KaiStore
*** Addressing usability study feedback (colours, icons, copy, ...)
*** Production errors
** Wikipedia Preview
*** Oozie job for data analysis
*** Image focus mode
*** Multilines caption 

=== UI Standardization ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:


=== Library ===
* Blocked by: Waiting to hear back from Cloud Services on question about IDS/IPS for Cloud infrastructure
* Blocking: -
* Updates: Fixed a bug in Wikipedia Library that denied some users access to the library bundle when they should've had it. Refactoring of Wikilinks UI underway to improve performance.
 
== Technology ==
 
=== Analytics ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
    - Adjustments to allow migration of legacy EventLogging schemas to Event Platform.
    - Fleshed out plan to migrate cluster to Apache BigTop and Hadoop coord failover.
    - Performance improvements of webrequest job, reduce CPU time and data relocation.
    - Fix bug in pageview_complete dumps (replacement of pagecounts).
 
=== Cloud Services ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
 
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** SRE deployed a change to stop iOS app launching for thankyou.wikipedia.org, we need to test
** Quieting down noisy logs in preparation for end of year fundraiser
** Switching dev environment from vagrant to docker
 
=== Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Parser cache for Parsoid code riding out this week
** Design work for Sockpuppet Detection API
** Design work for IP Masking
 
=== Engineering Productivity ===
 
==== Performance ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Perf monitoring services migrated to Python 3
 
==== Quality and Test Engineering ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
 
==== Release Engineering ====
* Blocked by:
** 
* Blocking:
** Trainsient reports of Gerrit: remote unpack failed: Missing tree / blob (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268119 ) -- hope to fix today
* Updates:
** Train Health
*** Last week: No Train
*** This week: 1.36.0-wmf.18 [[phab:T263184]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263184 -->
*** Next week: No Train
*** Rest of the year:https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions (two trains in December and that's it for 2020)

=== Machine Learning Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
    
=== Research ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
 
=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by:
** Growth: Consume new event from the AddLink feature - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262226
* Updates:
** "ElasticSearch shard size check" icinga warnings on cloudelastic servers -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265908
** Redirect loop in pages results in infinite loop in API query - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264534
** Build integration envirionment for search platform airflow + hadoop + spark integration -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265641
 
=== Security ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
 
=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
** None
* Blocking:
** None
* Updates:
** Had a networking issue in codfw on Sunday, minimal impact, but keep in mind https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267865
** Sporadic and weird issues with Italian ISPs continue. SRE is aware and working on them.
** Grafana SSO is live on https://grafana-rw.wikimedia.org. Quality of life improvement(s) being worked on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267645

 
== Wikimedia DE ==
 
=== Wikidata ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
 
=== German Technical Wishlist ===