https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-04-26

*= 2017-04-26 = *

contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering

== Call outs:== * Datacenter switch back Wednesday, May 3rd 2017 14:00 UTC (user visible, requires read-only mode) ** https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Switch_Datacenter * RelEng/Ops: Reading Web needs your help! Config is being ignored and shipping feature that communities have explicitly asked to be disabled and we don't understand why. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163114

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

==== Web ==== * Mostly bug fixing and improving code quality for pending Page previews launch * Need help from RelEng/Ops to address `Regression: Fix config to disable related pages where it's not wanted( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163114)%60. Config is being ignored and shipping feature that communities have explicitly asked to be disabled and we don't understand why.

==== iOS ==== * Last Week ** Continued work on 5.4.1 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2600/ *** Regression testing, new public beta *** Crash fixes & performance enhancements ** 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/ *** Places (UserTesting feedback) *** Article footer content rendered in HTML/CSS rather than native views * This Week ** Submit 5.4.1 to the App Store ** Continue work on 5.5 *** Updates to Places from user feedback

==== Android ==== * Beta released last week containing Wikidata title description editing expanded to many more languages, as well as various offline UX improvements ** Hotfix release Friday (4/21), promoted to prod yesterday: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2017-April/010503.html * Planning is underway for implementing offline ZIM compilations (Q4 goal) ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2723/ * Continuing work on cross-platform consolidation of CSS & JS * Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/

==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * ORES: working on api.php abuse + DB size issues, hoping to reenable after data center switchback * librarized https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Testing-access-wrapper * MCS: stop annoucement of past survey, fix handling of links in section titles

=== Editing === ==== UI Standardization ==== * This week: ** Continued work to provide WikimediaUI Base variables in core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123359 * Updates: ** OOjs UI: *** Release of v0.21.2 with 11 UI/a11y improvements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md – among those: **** MediaWiki theme: Full WCAG level AA contrast support of widgets accomplished **** MediaWiki theme: Fix IE 7 oversized buttons **** MediaWiki theme: Improve SearchWidget design **** Set ARIA `role=combobox` on DropdownWidget and LookupElement too (Bartosz Dziewoński) **** Set `aria-owns` for everything with a dropdown list (ARIA `role=combobox`) (Bartosz Dziewoński)

==== Parsing ==== * Parsoid: Audio / video support in place -- we plan to deploy today. * Linter: Improved documentation and guidance for fixing linter errors @ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Linter * Tidy replacement: Updated documentation @ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ * Language Variant tweaks in preprocessor: Fixups required documented @ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Language_conversion/Preprocessor_fixu... ... an editor has been diligently fixing them. We plan to make an announcement about this upcoming change soon and then merge the core patch ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/333997/ ) after that.

==== Language ==== * CX reenabled; We're watching logs and ready to disable if needed. Incident report in progress. ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163344 * OOjs UI migration work in progress.

==== Collaboration ==== * RCFilters: Optimization so if we know a query will return 0 results, we won't do the query at all. Some of these no-result queries have extremely poor performance. * Working on GuidedTour to make people aware of RCFilters beta feature * Working on next generation of RCFilters, including namespace and user filters, saved settings, and more sophisticated time filtering. * DId a deploy Monday to enable RCFilters on English Wikipedia, plus almost all non-ORES wikis. Some issues with preferences, but these have been partly tracked down. * Other bug fixes

=== Community Tech === No blockers * Rollling out Cookie Blocking to all wikis next Monday * Further polish work on CodeMirror extension (syntax highlighting) * Getting community feedback on LoginNotify extension (currently on Beta Cluster for testing) * User rights expiration is live on all wikis

== Technology ==

=== Research === * Reader research surveys are most likely to go out next week ** We will be running these surveys in 14 languages with the help of Reading team ** https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reade... ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151835

== Wikidata == * Focusing on the Lexeme extensions UI, example: http://wikidata-lexeme.wmflabs.org/index.php/Lexeme:L2 * Had to work around a change in core that blocked undeleting Wikidata entities: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163144 * Going to deploy Echo notifications when linking pages via Wikidata: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110604

== German Technical Wishlist == * Planning next steps for the book referencing wish: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151301

=== Discovery === * No blockers * Building infrastructure for machine learning assisted ranking (aka MjoLniR) * Chinese analyzer seems to be doing well, enabling soon. Working on Hebrew analyzer. * Completed analysis of second sister wiki search A/B test: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASecond_Test_Of_Cross-wiki_Search_-... * Published notes from discussion on scoring functions: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Some_Thoughts_on_the_... * Updated WDQS dashboard to include traffic from all SPARQL endpoints: https://discovery.wmflabs.org/wdqs/ * Updated the external search dashboard to display non-bot traffic ( https://discovery.wmflabs.org/external/, task T161932) * Portal statistics (task T128546) and translations (task T142582) were updated * Working on Wikidata search improvement * Working on Mediawiki API integration for WDQS

=== Analytics === * Ongoing work on EventLogging analysis support in Hadoop - Not yet finished * Ongoing work on Wikistats 2.0 data back-end - Finalizing Design * Started to define webrequest tagging project * Daily uniques are in Pivot http://bit.ly/2oZU5gt * Waiting for feedback on Wikistats 2.0 consultation * Dashiki configuration articles on meta still broken, can't fix them until the codfw-related deployment moratorium is over

=== TechOps === * '''Blocked''' ** None * '''Blocking''' ** None? * '''Updates''' ** Wrapping up switchover action items https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/codfw-switchover-AprMay2017 ** ToolsProxy incident report https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170419-ToolsPro...

=== Security === * Reviews ** WikibaseMediaInfo ** TemplateStyles

=== Services === * Blockers: none * Updates: ** Service-runner doesn't support node 0.1x any more *** https://github.com/wikimedia/service-runner/pull/163

=== RelEng === * '''Blocked''' ** None * '''Blocking''' ** None? ** Config symlinks should be touched when they're deployed, Reading callout above https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126306 * '''Updates''' ** New version of scap out https://github.com/wikimedia/scap/blob/release/debian/changelog#L1 (config diffs in a basic format, env announce in IRC) ** 1.29 is coming...see wikitech email for more info

=== Fundraising Tech === * More Paypal Express Checkout fixes * Investigating potential extra session creation on paymentswiki * Planning Ingenico integration changeover, which will include moving a lot of functionality from MW extension to lib * Coordinating with Comms to update the WMF logo in various places: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144254 * CentralNotice: Banner sequence feature is in code review https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144453 * CiviCRM: getting rid of the rest of our local core hacks, using upstream buildkit in CI * Found a dozen repos we can delete