Hello,

This email contains updates for last week - August 19, 2020, with apologies for the lateness.

For the HTML versions, see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2020-08-19

Cheers,

Deb

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*= 2020-08-19 =*

== Product ==

=== Web === * Updates: ** '''Summary''': Vue.js-focused week. ** [[Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements|Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP)]]: *** [[phab:T258493|[Spike 8hrs] "Use Legacy Vector" is not working as a global preference]] *** [[phab:T258465|[Bug] Sidebar Expand/Collapse button impacted by Narrow Width]] *** [[phab:T255727|Make collapsible sidebar persistent for logged-in users]] *** [[phab:T249363|Move the existing search to the header in preparation for Vue.js search development]] *** [[phab:T251817|[Dev] Allow extensions to update the footer without resorting to SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook]] *** [[phab:T244392|Vue.js search case study]]: **** See [[Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements/Vue.js case study/Status log|weekly status updates]]. ** Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend): *** [[phab:T260155|PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method TitleValue::isSubpage() in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.36.0-wmf.4/skins/MinervaNeue/includes/Skins/SkinUserPageHelper.php:55 in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.36.0-wmf.4/skins/MinervaNeue/includes/Skins/SkinUserPageHelper.php on line 55]] *** [[phab:T231160|HtmlFormatter incorrectly removes partial classname matches in "xenomobile" or "not-an-navbox"]] *** [[phab:T214647|[EPIC] Re-define the contract for displaying drawers and overlays in MobileFrontend]] *** [[phab:T212465|[EPIC] None of our View's should exhibit 2 levels of inheritance]] *** [[phab:T258096|Regression: Nested references do not open if user clicks on [ or ] (which are wrapped in span)]] *** [[phab:T240622|[Technical debt payoff] Remove InlineDiffFormatter and InlineDifferenceEngine from MobileFrontend]] ** Standardization *** [[phab:T256520|Consider 'normalize' stylesheet RL module]] *** [[phab:T259906|Add 'volumeUp' icon in OOUI]] ** Miscellaneous *** [[phab:T224985|Rename Special:ElectronPdf to Special:Download as Pdf or Special:Export as Pdf]]

== Technology ==

=== Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates ''(long list of updates, we were lagging behind in reporting those)'': ** Integrate Wikimedia Event Utilities with discovery-parent-pom - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260375 ** Search does not return exact title match - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257922 ** Querying WCQS should allow me to use prefixes for MediaInfo items - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258625 ** Gather statistics on head and tail query distribution on Commons - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252544 ** Slow indexing of Lexemes for wbsearchentities - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240328 ** Create spreadsheet of last 90 days of Commons search queries - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257361 ** Validate and fix TTL dumps of SDoC - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251496 ** Create a Examples Page for WCQS - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258489 ** v: prefix not correctly prefixed in Wikibase when using entitysource config and extra prefixes -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258507 ** CirrusSearch throws an error on several wikis when searching for "intitle:/regex/" -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250810 ** Access restriction for SPARQL Endpoint for Commons - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251498 ** UI for SPARQL Endpoint for Commons - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251514

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deb tankersley (she/her)

sr program manager, engineering

Wikimedia Foundation