[Wikitech-l] 2018-04-18 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-04-18#Android_native_app = 2018-04-18 = == Callouts == * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar - Netherlands 2018-04-03 through 2018-05-01 * Analytics: we added trash folder to hadoop to “aid” in case of accidental deletions of data in cluster. * Need help from RelEng with WDQS GUI build automation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189811 * Research: In the next two/three weeks we'll be collecting citation usage data via EventLogging: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191086and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:CitationUsage. cc Reading Infrastructure, Adam Baso, Security, Legal, Analytics. * Phabricator: Create tasks with a Deadline date/time which is displayed on workboards: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/37/ == Audiences == === Readers === iOS native app * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: Android native app * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Reading lists at 10% production, full rollout pending regression tests and finalizing marketing materials. Readers Web * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: Readers Infrastructure * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: = Maps = * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: Multimedia * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Contributors === Community Tech * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** GlobalPreferences, CodeMirror, TemplateWizard Anti-Harassment Tools * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: ** Improving block notices on mobile ** Adding cookie blocking for anonymous users Editing * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: Parsing * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: Collaboration * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: Language * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Audiences Design === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: UI Std * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** OOUI – v0.26.4 released: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md;v0.26.4 *** One hotfix, that has already made it to MW1.31 before, one keyboard accessibility improvement ** Continued work on icon/size unification aftermath in different products (Notifications, Flow, RevisionSlider) ** Style Guide technical and contents improvements ongoing with 2 open PRs currently ** Transforming core/extensions to use OOUI, 6 extensions accomplished last week, build on strong volunteer support == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: - Monitoring the launch of the page previews, currently working on the aggregation job. - Done with updates to jupyter notebooks for now - Issues with pageviews from Opera Mini not geo locating correctly in Africa are now resolved. - Fnishing new geowiki infrastructure before we turn off the old jobs that calculated this data (editors per country). - Google Summer of Code, plenty Code Reviews for contributions to Wikistats UI: http://stats.wikimedia.org/v2 === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: Working on new recurring contribution API for main card processor Debugging CN patch deploy to add CSP headers on banner preview CiviCRM: Work on exports, fixing custom fields, new fraud-hunter's report Working on getting landing page and banner impression EventLogging data into payments cluster DBs === MediaWiki Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Performance === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: ** Moving our apps/etc out of puppet, to scap deploy ** Blog post on Singapore DC should be up shortly, been working on that with Traffic ** Lots of CRs ** working with RelEng/Platform on a few changes to CI and to MW Core ** mcrouter is now deployed in deployment-prep, next steps are to configure, and working with SRE to figure out how to do cross-DC correctly. ** Trying out Digital Ocean for WebPageTest (got free credits from them) === Release Engineering === * Blocking ** Working on Scap 3.8.0 to unblock ores git-lfs deployments. * Blocked ** n/a * Updates ** Deadlines in phabricator are now visible on workboards. === Research === * Blocked by: ** None * Blocking: ** None * Updates: ** In the next two/three weeks we'll be collecting citation usage data via EventLogging: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191086 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:CitationUsage. cc Reading Infrastructure, Adam Baso, Security, Legal, Analytics. === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Waiting on the scap deployment to unblock us from git-lfs--it works on beta :) (Almost there! Thanks Releng!)* ** Virtualenv is now cached with deployments (so that we can quickly rollback) *** This is relevant for anyone who is deploying a python service with virualenvs as they might want to follow our lead ** New, dynamic t
Re: [Wikitech-l] Page previews promoted out of beta on all Wikipedias
Nice work, team! On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 4:11 PM, Olga Vasileva wrote: > Hi all, > > Page previews[1] have now been promoted out of beta to the remaining two > Wikipedias - English and German, after a series of consultations on both > wikis [2][3][4]. The feature is now on by default for all logged-out users > and off by default for all logged-in users (can be enabled using user > preferences) on all Wikipedias. Further changes to configuration based on > our conversations with communities (such as turning the feature on for new > accounts) are coming up soon. > > Page previews allows readers to read an excerpt of a linked article’s lead > section without leaving the page they’re currently on, by hovering their > mouse over the link. It has been activated by default for logged-out users > on all Wikipedias except German and English since August 2017, and numerous > further bug fixes and technical improvements have been implemented since. A > few weeks ago we published the results of our latest round of A/B testing > [5]. We found that when the feature is enabled, readers will open pages in > their browser slightly less often (a decrease of around 3–5% in regular > pageviews). But on the other hand, they interact with a lot more different > pages when one counts both the seen page previews and the regular pageviews > (an increase of around 20–22% in the number of distinct pages interacted > with via either method). In addition, the option to deactivate the feature > was used very rarely (disable rates were around 0.01%). This leads us to > believe that Page Previews is a welcomed feature that is helping readers > learn more during their visits. > > More information about Page previews can be found on the project page on > MediaWIki.org [1]. The team also recently wrote a few blog posts. One about > the work that went into the design of the feature [6] and another giving an > overview of the functionality [7]. > > If you see any issues, please report them in Phabricator. [8] > > Thanks, > > Olga > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews > > [2] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_( > technical)/Archive_164#Improvements_to_Page_Previews > > > [3] > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fragen_zur_ > Wikipedia/Archiv/2018/Woche_14#Seitenvorschaubilder_(Page_Previews) > > > [4] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_( > miscellaneous)#Next_Steps > > [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews/2017-18_A/B_Tests > > [6] > https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all- > knowledge/how-we-designed-page-previews-for-wikipedia- > and-what-could-be-done-with-them-in-the-future-7a5fa6b07b96 > > > [7] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/17/wikipedia-page-previews/ > > [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/page-previews/ > -- > Olga Vasileva // Product Manager // Reading Web Team > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Page previews promoted out of beta on all Wikipedias
Hooray! Well done everyone. :) On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 10:11 PM, Olga Vasileva wrote: > Hi all, > > Page previews[1] have now been promoted out of beta to the remaining two > Wikipedias - English and German, after a series of consultations on both > wikis [2][3][4]. The feature is now on by default for all logged-out users > and off by default for all logged-in users (can be enabled using user > preferences) on all Wikipedias. Further changes to configuration based on > our conversations with communities (such as turning the feature on for new > accounts) are coming up soon. > > Page previews allows readers to read an excerpt of a linked article’s lead > section without leaving the page they’re currently on, by hovering their > mouse over the link. It has been activated by default for logged-out users > on all Wikipedias except German and English since August 2017, and numerous > further bug fixes and technical improvements have been implemented since. A > few weeks ago we published the results of our latest round of A/B testing > [5]. We found that when the feature is enabled, readers will open pages in > their browser slightly less often (a decrease of around 3–5% in regular > pageviews). But on the other hand, they interact with a lot more different > pages when one counts both the seen page previews and the regular pageviews > (an increase of around 20–22% in the number of distinct pages interacted > with via either method). In addition, the option to deactivate the feature > was used very rarely (disable rates were around 0.01%). This leads us to > believe that Page Previews is a welcomed feature that is helping readers > learn more during their visits. > > More information about Page previews can be found on the project page on > MediaWIki.org [1]. The team also recently wrote a few blog posts. One about > the work that went into the design of the feature [6] and another giving an > overview of the functionality [7]. > > If you see any issues, please report them in Phabricator. [8] > > Thanks, > > Olga > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews > > [2] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_( > technical)/Archive_164#Improvements_to_Page_Previews > > > [3] > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fragen_zur_ > Wikipedia/Archiv/2018/Woche_14#Seitenvorschaubilder_(Page_Previews) > > > [4] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_( > miscellaneous)#Next_Steps > > [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews/2017-18_A/B_Tests > > [6] > https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all- > knowledge/how-we-designed-page-previews-for-wikipedia- > and-what-could-be-done-with-them-in-the-future-7a5fa6b07b96 > > > [7] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/17/wikipedia-page-previews/ > > [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/page-previews/ > -- > Olga Vasileva // Product Manager // Reading Web Team > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
