They, like RelEng, are at a team offsite this week.

<quote name="Pine W" date="2016-10-19" time="12:48:48 -0700">

Hi Grace, was there an update from the editing team(s) this week? I'm not seeing such an update in the meeting notes, not even a placeholder note that says "X was out this week but will update next week". Perhaps there was an update but it got missed in the meeting notes? If a team is missing an update, could there be a note of when to expect the next update?

Thanks, Pine

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Grace Gellerman ggellerman@wikimedia.org wrote:

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-10-19

=2016-10-19= == Product == === Reading === ==== Android native app ====

• Current sprint (

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile-app-android- sprint-93-neptunium/) : * Start on Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions * v2.4.160 released to production * Workaround to handle unexpected JSON service responses gracefully * CI screenshot regression testing

• Next sprint (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2319/):
  • More Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions

====Web====

• Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2270/

  • • Mainly tackling the tech debt
  • • Also working on moving the first paragraph in the lead section above

  the infobox

  • • Finished the work on prototype solutions to avoid FOUC (flash of

  unstyled content) on section collapsing: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147338. We've demoed all 4 solutions to the team members. The next step is to decide on which solution we'll

be using.

• Next sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2314/

  • • Tech debt and hovercards instrumentation

==== iOS native app ==== Current Board (5.3 is in Beta): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2220/ Since we last met:

• • Feed based off of MCS (Mobile Content Service) and persisting to

YapDatabase is complete & in beta

• • "In the news" Notifications are complete and awaiting beta
• • "In the news" in the explore feed is complete and awaiting beta

Before we meet again:

• • Adding alternate ToC (Table of Contents) style for UX research
• • Notifications settings
• • Bug fixes, crash fixes, converging to release of 5.3

No blockers

==== Mobile Content Service ==== Backlog: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile-content-service/ Added more languages to 'In the news' feed portion. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/315451/ Going to remove Chinese from it though due to an issue with language variant syntax and the inability to handle lang variantes in RB. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147874

==== Reading Infrastructure ====

• no blocking/blocked
• ORES data in action API soon: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143895
• OAuth approval workflow changes soon:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103587#2621901

=== Community Tech ===

• Sprint board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.

org/tag/community-tech-sprint/

• No blockers
• Not blocked
• Since last week:
  • Did some more supporting work on Programs Dashboard
  • Local (wiki) ID and Global ID now populate in CentralAuth localuser

table on new account attach * Did some work with NewPagesPatrol on enwiki - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147225 * Work ongoing on maintenance script to backfill the columns for existing accounts: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142503 * Work ongoing to modify Copypatrol (the plagiarism detection tool) to support more wikis https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145436 * Work ongoing on sending cookie with each block ticket - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5233

• Upcoming:
  • Investigation for adding IP range support to Special:Contributions

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147664 * Preliminary work/investigation on throttling number of accounts created per browser: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106930

=== Discovery ===

• No blockers
• Working on multiwiki indexes
• Deploying BM25 for top 10 languages soon (

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147008#2694395), languages like ja, zh and th still TODO

• Added accent squashing for Russian/Cyrillic analyzer
• Subphrase completion (completion inside phrase) enabled on mediawiki.org

, wikitech and wikisources ==== Maps ====

• Launched snapshot service Is there any docs, demo, something to show to

people ? ** Basic static service was described at https://github.com/kartotherian/kartotherian#static-map-images ** The new "overlay addition" to the static service added three params to specify which page and which map to draw over the image: domain=www.mediawiki.org title=Help:Extension:Kartographer groups=_925bf4f20f98fdda374476b902f702d080492748

• Discussing tabular data on Commons
• If somebody has hive to Graphite setup, please talk to Yuri

=== Wikidata ===

• No blockers.
• Working on a new parser function in addition to {{#property:…}}, as well

as Lua support: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142941

• Separate "Cognate" extension for automatic Wiktionary sitelinks pretty

much done, in security review: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145412

• We are going to celebrate Wikidata's fourth birthday on October 29:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday

=== Analytics ===

• Not blocking nor blocked
• Update:
  • Recruiting fullstack dev: several tasks submitted and reviewed, some

candidates passed to next steps. * Working on a KafkaSSE prototype (Kafka consumer to SSE) Kasocki's analog for SSE. * More work on removing Limn dashboards, only reportcard and ee-dashboards remaining. * Edit history reconstruction: good progress on productionization of the jobs for all wikis. * Troubleshooting varnish-kafka, causing false alarms in hadoop webrequest loading jobs. * Improved EventLogging monitoring and alarms.

=== Security ===

• Brian was out last week, but is back now
• Security Reviews:
  • FileAnnotations (this week - done)
  • Google MT for Content Translation (this week)
  • Electron PDF-rendering service (next week)

=== Services ===

• Not blocking or blocked
• Updates

** SCB is expanded to 4 machines per DC ** Node.js security update to 4.6.0 is live on SCB and RESTBase *** Please test and update your services that were not updated! ** Parsoid config deployment move to Scap3 ongoing

=== Technical Operations ===

• '''Blocked'''

** None

• '''Blocking'''

** Noone

• Updates

** SCB cluster capacity doubled today ** work ongoing on varnish 4 on text ** Jessie appserver reimaging ongoing, almost done ** API outage on Monday, root cause still unknown. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148652

=== ArchCom ===

• (RobLa can't be here; please follow links and comment)
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E323 - today's ArchCom meeting

** *T145472: Survey Cookies/Local Storage usage on Wikimedia sites* ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145472

== Fundraising Tech ==

• Got some help from Aaron Schultz on CN bug, would welcome more review

from others familiar with MessageCache ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144952

• Brainstorming ways to monitor for recurrance of the issue
• General stabilization and log-quieting tasks
• Improving donor error messages

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