https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-02-08
= 2017-02-08 =
== Product ==
=== Reading ===
==== iOS native app ====
* Last Week
** Continued work on 5.4, released to internal Beta channel
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/
*** Refined UI, added animations, added search suggestions
*** Continued work on login
* This week
** Continue work on 5.4
*** 2FA
*** Integrate design feedback for places, try alternate search suggestion
methods
==== Web ====
* Current sprint:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2460/
* Last week:
** Page Previews fixes, schema changes.
** Created Hindi versions of all three New Readers prototypes.
** Deployed related pages to mobile French wikipedia stable channel.
** Deployed related pages to mobile English wikipedia, 90% of the users.
* This week:
** Create Reading Depth schema: T155639
** Spikes related to problems we're trying to solve from technical, design,
and product points of view: T156259, T157071, and T157071.
====Android====
* Last week:
** 2.5.18x beta release and bug fixes in progress
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155917
** Improved multi-window support
* Next week (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ):
** Continue improving the offline experience
====Reading Infrastructure====
* working on TemplateStyles, ORES architecture review
* TemplateStyles RfC:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155813
* not blocking/blocked:
===== Mobile Content Service (MCS) =====
* Kanban Board:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2445/
* New endpoint for Anniversaries
=== Community Tech ===
* Block cookies nearing completion (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5233
)
* Making uca-xx the default for MediaWiki installations (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47611 )
* Ongoing investigation into the architecture for
Special:RangeContributions (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156318 )(insight
from SQL experts welcome!)
* Starting on rebuilding Mr. Z's popular pages report (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156856 )
* Rewriting XTools, investigation complete (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154551 )
* Porting CopyPatrol to Spanish Wikipedia (
http://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155933 )
* Improving date range searches on Special:Contribs, volunteer effort (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120733 )
* Enabling echo on loginwiki (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157105 ) as
part of
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T11838
* New Wikimedia Cloud Services team (
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086343.html
)
* Discussion with enwiki about their plans for a private off-wiki abuse
tracking system (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_health_initiative#LTA_Knowle…
)
== German Technical Wishlist ==
* TwoColConflict extension deployed as a beta feature to
mediawiki.org
* ElectronPdfService extension deployed to dewiki
== Wikidata ==
* InteriwkiSorting extension deployed to beta sites
* We have test wikis for Lexeme (the Wiktionary project) and federation
(the Commons project) now. Currently fine tuning them. Will publish links
soon.
* Working on MediaWiki wide support for social network sharing, looks like
we must use a Twitter specific meta tag
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157145
=== Analytics ===
* Community consultation for feedback on Wikistats2.0 design and
information architecture.
* Official launch of EventStreams, providing RecentChanges.
irc.wikimedia.org and RCStream continue to work but are now deprecated in
favor of EventStreams.
* Rack and setup of 3 new machines for AQS. The last one is beeing setup
now, ETA tomorrow.
* Banner activity pivot data set is now updated minutely via
spark-streaming.
* Changes in pageview data set: remove action=submit, new bot in regexp,
new field - namespace_id (to be deployed today)
=== Research ===
* In the process of looking for product and tech leads for Recommendation
API productization
**
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Recommendation_API
**
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157588
**
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157589
=== Security ===
* Security Reviews:
** Extension:3d
** Trending Edits Endpoint
** OIT LDAP Tools (wrap-up)
=== Services ===
* Blockers: none
* Updates:
** RFC Discussion *REST API language variant support*
***
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154190
** RFC Discussion *Thumb API*
***
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66214
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Hiring replacement for Casey, who's turning devops
* More work on new PayPal integration:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107372,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153720
* Matching gifts import for CiviCRM:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115044
* Method to purge CentralNotice banners from caches:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154954
=== RelEng ===
* Blocking:
** Nothing as far as we know
* Blocked:
** Ops/Performance (Aaron):
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125735 (redis
timeouts for jobqueue)
** Mobile web:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157515 (undefined
variable in MobileFrontend, blocking train)
* Updates:
** Expect to hear some noise about production log errors. We're going to
start getting...strict...on this
=== Discovery ===
* No blockers
* A/B tests for sister wiki searches start soon on Polish, Persian,
Italian, and Catalan Wikipedias:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149806
** Also have test server on
http://sistersearch.wmflabs.org/: see
http://sistersearch.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profil…
* Working on ElasticSearch 5 upgrade
* Working on improving wikidata search
* Published description on how we test search:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Search/Testing_Search
* Deployed TextCat improvements:
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat…
* Added frequently used aliases for filetype: keyword:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156413
* Published call for comments on secondary search options:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2017-February/001426.html
* Improved error reporting for advanced search syntax:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149142
=== Editing ===
==== UI Standardization ====
* This week
** Outlining path forward on Devise a generic way for theme-agnostic
stylesheets to adapt to the current theme
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112747
feedback from core devs gathered
** Provide WikimediaUI Base's base.less in MW core
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123359
* Updates
** OOjs UI:
*** Further improvements on form layouts in OOUI MW core forms for better
user experience –
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136790
*** MediaWiki theme: Align tab navigation to color palette
*** Mediawiki theme: Fix focus inset to overlap scrollbars –
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103851
==== Collaboration ====
* Blocked - None
* Blocking - None
* Updates
** Continued work on new RecentChanges front and backend.
** Working with other teams to finalize ReviewStream spec.
** Flow bug fix
==== Multimedia ====
* Blocked
** Security review for 3D extension (scheduled, thanks!)
** Discovery could maybe help with a schema change for img_media_type -
adding 3D media type, supporting filetype:3D queries in CirrusSearch.
***
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/336454
* Blocking: None
* Updates
** Firefogg losing support, we'll turn it off next week for UploadWizard
** 3D extension nearly ready to go live, once we finish reviews and some
polish, we'll push it out. Stay tuned!