Hello,

This email contains updates for January 27, 2021.

Cheers,

Deb

Callouts

No updates

  • Community Tech, Anti-Harassment Tools, Editing, iOS native app, Android native app

No notes provided

  • Growth, Parsing, Language, Inuka, Cloud Services, Fundraising Tech, Platform, Quality and Test Engineering, Security

Product

Web

Product Infrastructure

Structured Data

  • Updates:
    • Preparing for security review or MediaSearch UI, which will be moved into a separate extension
    • Focus on tackling remaining blockers for a wider release of MediaSearch
    • Figuring out how to wire up the MediaSearch elastic queries into a Learning To Rank machine learning model

Abstract Wikipedia

  • Updates:
    • Vue refactoring to align our code with emerging standards continues; thanks to Vue team!
    • Thanks to Daniel for advice on how our code may want to change to be closer to Platform future plans, and forthcoming meetings to explore further.
    • Still working on programmatic type management.
    • Community contest to select the logo concept for Wikifunctions is currently running; ideas welcome!

Library

  • Updates:
    • Starting work on setting up an exception logging service (Glitchtip)
    • Added a new partner in the Library Bundle
    • Starting a bug fix that will prevent being spammed by The Wikipedia Library Extension

Vue.js

  • Updates:
    • Working on ES6 minification for ResourceLoader.
    • [Probably other updates James doesn't know about.]


Technology

Analytics

  • Updates:
    • The machines for our backup Hadoop cluster are racked, we are setting them up, testing them, and moving backup data to them. After that, we'll be able to move forward with cluster migration to BigTop.
    • We continue with the EventLogging legacy schema migration to EventPlatform.
    • Working on calculation of session length metric.
    • We improved HDFS data security through better conventions on user groups and permits.
    • We're finalizing the corrections to canonical pageview dumps.

Engineering Productivity

Performance

  • Updates:

Release Engineering

Search Platform

Site Reliability Engineering

  • Updates:
    • similar-users, linkrecommendation services exposing to internal services being finalized this week.

Cross-cutting

  • Updates:
    • No significant movement on PHP 8.0 this week.
    • LibraryUpgrader is bumping all reports to eslint-config-wikimedia 0.18.0, which has proper JSON linting support
      • There are some speed issues on very long JSON files, so we worked with upstream to avoid this, and have released 0.18.1 with said fix just now.
      • If your repo doesn't get a patch automatically, it's probably because LibraryUpgrader errors on your repo. We'll fix these manually (or file Phab tasks), but if you want to do it ahead of us, we won't complain. You can see the dashboard of such repos here: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/errors?branch=master






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deb tankersley (she/her)

senior program manager, engineering

Wikimedia Foundation