https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-12-21

= 2016-12-21 =

== Product == === Reading ===

==== iOS native app ==== * Last Week ** Shipped 5.3.2 (Dynamic text size, data layer update, performance enhancements) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2281/ ** More performance enhancements & bug fixes ** Started work on this day in history MCS endpoint ** Started work on 5.4 (Nearby, Login updates) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/ * This week ** Monitor 5.3.2 release, fix any remaining issues, release 5.3.3 on Thursday ** Continue work on 5.4

==== Android native app ==== * Last week: ** More bug fixes for new release ** Released v2.4.184 to prod ** Continuing Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions * Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ): ** Holiday ** Work towards release of Wikidata description editing

==== Web ==== * Current Sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2405/ ** Mostly finishing up work left from last week ** Allow users who have the NavPopups gadget to use PagePreviews ** Start working towards Wikipedia branding on the mobile site * Next week: chilling

==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ==== * Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1323/query/open/ * Deployed (last week): ** Emitted etags have double quotes now. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150886 * To be deployed next year: ** Add additional information to file and user pages clients can use for rendering ** Ordered news link to have "most relevant" article in a news story appear first in list * Working on: ** Adding isDisambiguation flag

==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * working on tech debt mostly * not blocking * blocked: ** WMDE on the last API i18n patch before we can move to hard deprecation: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/321464/

=== Community Tech === * Blockers: None * Blokced: Nope * Special page for looking at page assessments data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PageAssessments is deployed to all wikis * Wikimania scholarships app was updated for the next iteration and will be deployed in January when the deploy freeze ends * A draft proposal about setting up a Tool Labs Standards committee: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Tool_Labs_standards_commi... * Continue to roll out improvements to Programs Dashboard

=== Discovery === * No blockers * Continuing work on crosswiki searching, refactoring Special:Search and allowing extensions to define query keywords * Added ICU folding to hewiki * Added support for returning interwiki results driven by language detection via API: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142795 * Updated portal stats on Dec 12th ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546) * Wikidata Query Service now supports triple pattern fragments: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/User_Manual#Linked_Dat... ==== Interactive ==== * Published Terms of Use for maps: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Maps_Terms_of_Use * Structured data is live, and seems to be working with minor bugs Fun demos: ** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Weather_barchart ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Graph:US_Map_state_highlight

=== Editing === ==== Collaboration ==== * Blockers: None * Blocked: None * Updates: ** Continued work on getting new RC page finished and merged. ** Various bug fixes, e.g. to Echo ** Coordinating about Deferred Changes ** Finishing up processing the Flow survey results

== Technology ==

=== Services === * Blockers: none * Updates: ** Trending service deployed and completely functional. Check it out! *** https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Feed/trendingEdits ** All scb services config deploys are on scap3 now ** Separated API cluster from appservers cluster *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152074 ** Moved RESTBase/Parsoid background updates to codfw ** Team availability update: *** Marko is around until NY and on vacation the week after *** Petr is on vacation for 2 weeks *** Eric and Gabriel and on vacation next week

=== Technical Operations === * '''Blocked''' ** By none * '''Blocking''' ** None * Updates ** Start of Q4 will probably have a DC switchover in it. Goal for Ops (and other teams) in next quarter is automating and streamlining it more ** preliminary support for encryption when talking to backend appservers is here ** Ubuntu Precise Pangolin will be fully phased out by end of next quarter in both labs and production. Services/apps will have to migrate or cease to be.

=== Fundraising Tech === * CiviCRM: data hygiene fixes * finding and batch refunding unintended duplicate donations, brainstorming ways to prevent more * investigated Ireland missing impressions, suspect rural network speeds are the culprit * internal dashboard fixes * fixed mobile style for backup payment processor

=== Analytics === * Culmination of 8 months of work, standard metrics computed on reconstructed mediawiki history: https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/standard-metrics/ * Newly updated mediawiki history beta pivot data cube: https://pivot.wikimedia.org/#mediawiki-history-beta * stat1001 was replaced with thorium, and stat1001 is being decommissioned * Thanks very much for the reviews to the mediawiki-Dashiki extension, I'll be looking to deploy that and JsonConfig to meta early next quarter (any advice appreciated, but the docs seem comprehensive) * Starting to clean up datasets.wikimedia.org structure (adding readmes and keeping everything the same via symlinks)

== Research == * Showcase featuring Tor users and Wikipedia Quality Dynamics today at 11:30AM PST, 19:30 UTC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmrlu5qTgyA