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_comm…
* 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_Da…
==== 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