= 2018-07-11 =

== Callouts == * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar * Datacenter switchover will happen on the end of this quarter. Dates not fully set, but a tentative range is 17-29 September 2018 and a switchback on 8-19 October 2018. We plan for at least 3 weeks this time around. * Analytics: Spark is now available in Jupyter notebooks

== Audiences == === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== Natalia * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Planning to be feature complete on 6.0.0 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.0-walrus-on-a-unicycle/) by the end of the week of July 9 ** User testing of feed redesign and search coming up ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198932 )

==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Multi-language release is in production. ** Working on completing prototypes for A/B testing at Wikimania (includes navigation redesigns, table-of-contents variations, and Wikitext Keyboard) ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3367/

==== Readers Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend): ***Page issues UI T199005 T191532 T197932 T191528 T199005 T198115 T197931 ***Improve diff UI T197491 T197729 ***Fixes and hygiene T193418 T193821 T198930 T197106 T199156 T193754 T196767 T188937 T193069 ***Finalizing designs for collapsible templates T111565 ***Planning for advanced mobile contributions **Desktop website (Popups): ***Abort outdated HTTP requests T197700 ***Send the Accept-Language header when calling API T198619 **Design and product are preparing user interviews for Wikimania

==== Readers Infrastructure ==== James * Blocked by: ** Release Engineering (CI) for merge of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/442126 ** Language Team for review of the stack with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/443687 * Blocking: * Updates: ** Working with the iOS and Android teams on using the Page Library's transforms in the service. (T170584) ** Still working on supporting lang variants in MCS via the uselang parameter to MW API requests. (T195948) ** Safari Reading List extension now submitted, awaiting approval from Safari extension store. (T191998) ** Maps work continues; working with Discovery colleagues to move the test cluster out of production. (T172090)

==== Multimedia ==== Matthias * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Working on search interface prototyping, so users can search by Wikibase properties/values ** Continuing work on search backend

=== Contributors === ==== Community Tech ==== Moriel * Blocked by: ** PageTriage, can't merge anything right now: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198137 (help) * Blocking: * Updates: GlobalPreferences is deployed; we're working on API modules **

==== Anti-Harassment Tools ==== Moriel * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** RfC coming

==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Updates: **

==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

==== Growth ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **

==== Language ==== Kartik * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Content Translation v2 - work continues: MT warnings and calculations, Users to notify about old drafts and bug fixes

=== Audiences Design === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **

==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** New OOUI release coming to MW master today, nothing major.

== Technology == === Analytics === Francisco * Blocked by: * Blocking: **Eventlogging outage - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180705-EventLog... * Updates **Close to deploy pagecounts (legacy pageviews) to wikistats, they been available on API for a while **Maps improvements **Working with security on threat model of analytics stack. [wiki, email] **We had a data drop (now backfilled) that highlighted lack of alarms in our current eventlogging hadoop pipeline, we will be working on those.

=== Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **

=== Fundraising Tech === Elliott * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Running another 1-hour test on new API for main CC processor *** sorry for the email disruption! **** Amazon IP address change led to a failmail for each incoming payment notification **** Casey working with net ops team to get firewall rules updated ** More CiviCRM core updates ** More work on CiviCRM donor data deletion extension ** More work on backend for EventLogging-based banner/landingpage impressions stats ** Testing new CiviCRM extension for recurring donations ** Adding per-country email opt-in checkbox on donation forms

=== MediaWiki Core Platform === Cindy * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** MediaWiki Platform Team is now part of the Core Platform Team (with Services) ** Deployed a change to Phabricator config in response to more Phabricator vandalism ** Working on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100782, "Redirect loop detected" error live in production ** Platform Evolution Program: *** Sent kickoff emails to stakeholder teams *** preparing questions for stakeholders to get input for Wikimedia Technical Conference ** patches needing review *** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/443440 (<style>-in-TOC bugfix) *** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/322729 (Externallinks indexing) *** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/444464 (mobile Commons login failure bugfix) 2** the usual code review and bug work

=== Performance === Ian * Blocked by: ** None * Blocking: ** None * Updates: ** All wikis are writing to both nutcracker and to mcrouter ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/444932). Reads are coming only from nutcracker for the time being to ensure the mcrouter cache is hot before switching. ** Fixed a regression in SaveTiming related to an MCR change: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198483 ** Working on a patch that will cause a warning when a duplicate parse occurs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172941 ** Released CSSJanus 1.3.0

=== Release Engineering === Antoine * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** James F. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/442126 ** Moriel: UBN https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198137 (help) * Updates: ** Mediawiki train happening during European time this week: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-July/090287.html ** MediaWiki 1.29 is end of life https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197669 ** Working with MediaWiki Platform Team / Cindy about MediaWiki releasing ** (Security team) Two-factor authentication to be enforced on GitHub https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198810 ** Phabricator spam / anti vandalism is ongoing ** Help clean up unused config in production: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Krinkle/Unused_config

=== Research === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Scoring Platform === Adam W. * Blocked by: ** JADE deployment discussions, around schema scalability. *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196547 *** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_wiki_page vs. scalability *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Risker/Risker%27s_checklist_for_content-c... *** Are we going to re-architect this away from wiki pages after all? * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Search Platform === Stas * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Refactored search configs to move tuning to mediawiki-config: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182717 ** Fixed namespace/redirect mixup in search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115756 ** Created separate namespace index: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192699 ** Working on puppet setup multi-instance Elasticsearch: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198351 ** Working on fixing Polish analyzer: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186046 ** Working on ES 6.3 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198067 ** Working on Lexeme fulltext search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196188 ** Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108

=== Security === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **

=== Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: ** None * Blocking: ** None * Updates: ** Proton is up and running. ** Eqiad network maintenance ongoing, mostly handled without issues, do expect the occasional hiccup ** Work started on PHP7 for MediaWiki ** grafana-admin.wikimedia.org last users, update your bookmarks.

== Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-07-11

== German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **

== Multi-Content Revisions == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** read old / write both mode for revision / content schema migration will be enabled on beta and master (not WMF) next week. See full timeline at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TkznqoaMH6HTQBSMxXPRhSOo8auf1oMLx6c-... ** Storage layer (phase 1) tasks nearing completion ** Delivery date of MCR code for SDC use case is '''1 Sept 2018'''

== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates: **Removed the goals dependency check-in from notes template. Will address that communication via another mechanism.