https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-12-05
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== Callouts ==
* Fundraising campaigns
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
* Dec 24th and Dec 31st are freeze weeks.
* Goal planning in progress. If you have requests from SRE, now is the time
to do so.
** Session Service RFC is heading to last call ending Wednesday December
12th 1pm PST
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206010
== Audiences ==
=== Contributors ===
==== Community Tech ====
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==== Anti-Harassment Tools ====
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==== Editing ====
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==== Growth ====
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==== Language ====
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=== Readers ===
==== iOS native app ====
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**About to release 6.1.4 - a small release that disables Wikidata
description editing in English (we enabled it by mistake in a previous
release)
**Working on mobile editing (release board:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2-beluga-on-a-pogo-stick/)
with
CodeMirror - we're hoping to release something to beta before the holidays
==== Android native app ====
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==== Readers Web ====
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** Summary: we're continuing the MobileFrontend architecture project,
planning for advanced mobile contributions, and getting ready to deploy
page issues everywhere except enwiki.
** Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
*** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFro…
**** Reduce View inheritance and improve composition support T209007
**** Webpackify watchstar T208921
**** Add tests for Drawer and CtaDrawer T208920
**** MobileFrontend should not have a global event emitter T156186
*** Advanced mobile contributions
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
**** Team planning
*** Page issues
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
**** Distinct issues should not be grouped T202349
**** Standardize parsing T206177
**** Planning deployment to all wikis except enwiki on December 17th T210553
*** Maintenance and bug fixes T210670 T210869 T204876 T208808
** Desktop website (Popups)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
*** Reproduce Popups memory leak T208634
** PDF rendering (Proton)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
*** Remaining work tracked in deploy Proton T181084
==== Readers Infrastructure ====
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** Maps:
*** Tested kartotherian/tilerator on Node 10
** MCS:
*** Mainly code review and work on the performance patches
==== Multimedia ====
* Updates
** SDC: still struggling to get multi-lingual captions stable on beta
** work continues on phase 2
** Matthias is back from paternity leave
==== Parsing ====
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==== UI Standardization ====
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** OOUI v0.29.6 released
** Design Style Guide
*** Now featuring improved imagery across pages
== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
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** Working on fixing newly found errors in Hadoop's EventLogging refine
pipeline and sanitization.
** Working on adding unique devices counts per project family (all
wikipedias, all wiktionaries, etc.)
** Working on loading data (sqooping from labs+production mariaDBs) and
joining it in the cluster for MediaWiki history reconstruction, after
recent DB refactor.
=== Cloud Services ===
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=== Fundraising Tech ===
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** Campaign going well so far
** FR-tech supporting the rest of the team with processor switching &
investigation
** CentralNotice tweaks such as reducing log spam for protection
** CiviCRM performance optimizations
** Getting new hire oriented
=== MediaWiki Core Platform ===
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** TechConf session review complete, now moving on to wiki publishing
** Session Service RFC is heading to last call ending Wednesday December
12th 1pm PST
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206010
** Patch for Excimer ready for merging
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205059
** PHP7: Working on production configuration sending to Redis server
** Patch for intentionally triggering fatal errors in MediaWiki is up
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210567
** Guzzle security review complete, will be deployed next week
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202143
=== Performance ===
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=== Release Engineering ===
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=== Research ===
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* Updates:
** Delaying deployment of QuickSurveys for reader trust because of the
ongoing fundraising campaign:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209882
** Working on taking the recommendation API to production:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210844 and
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208622
** Starting a new online experiment for the "Eliciting new editor
interests" research:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_in_a_voluntary_work…
=== Scoring Platform ===
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=== Search Platform ===
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** New blog post about grouping, stemming and filtering words in search:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/11/28/the-root-of-the-problem/
** A/B test for wikidata completion models finished, analyzing results:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209402
** Fixed issue with deletes not being reported in WDQS (turns out we had
broken channel in Kafka for a month):
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210451
** Fixed issue with Chinese CJK extension C characters in search:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168427
** Fixed transfer_to_es job that moves data from analytics to
ElasticSearch:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210545
** Working on data corruption issues in WDQS:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210044
** Working on ES 6 upgrade:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282
** Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654
** Working on query parsing refactoring:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108
=== Security ===
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**T144467 Security review for Google MT for Content Translation - on
schedule for end of week
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=== Services ===
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=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
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** Dec 24th and Dec 31st are freeze weeks..
== Wikidata ==
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== German Technical Wishlist ==
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== Multi-Content Revisions ==
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** Patch introducing SlotRoleHandler and SlotRoleRegistry was merged
(Gerrit:434544)
== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping ==
* Updates:
**request for teams to enter updates into the notes if they aren't able to
attend the meeting