[Wikitech-l] 2021-04-21 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

2021-04-21 Thread Grace Gellerman
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2021-04-21

= 2021-04-21 =
== Callouts ==
*** Cross-cutting: There are five filed blockers to the 1.36 RC.0 release
(due tomorrow), but two are unclaimed and apparently not being worked on:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/
* …

== Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback ==

*

=== No updates ===
CommTech, Product Infrastructure, Parsing, Language, Analytics, Cloud
Services, Platform, Performance, Quality and Test Engineering, Release
Engineering, Search Platform, Security

== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping ==
* Updates:

== Product ==

=== Anti-Harassment Tools ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
** Thanks to Sam Reed and James Forrester for code review and advice
** Thanks to DannyS for huge help on partial blocks review/QA
* Updates:
** We're working on partial blocks against actions while we await next
instructions on SecurePoll

=== Editing ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Will be working with Performance and others to reduce ParserCache expiry
by ~7 days (30 -> 23) to free up some space, possibly caused by
DiscsussionTools reply links.

=== Growth ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
** Preparing to enable on-wiki configuration next week
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274520
** Migrating mentor data from user preferences to a dedicated table
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279853
** Deploying Growth features as opt-in to eswiki

=== iOS native app ===
* Blocked by: N/A
* Blocking: N/A
* Thank yous:
* Updates: Version 6.8 - finally improving language varient support - is
currently rolling out.

=== Android native app ===
* Blocked by: N/A
* Blocking: N/A
* Thank yous:
* Updates: Version w/ image recommendations suggested edits should be
released 2 weeks from today.

=== Web ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Finishing up Vue.js search autocomplete widget project report:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249430
** Preparing a release for WVUI to address a handful of bugs:
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277256
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277315
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279088
** Beginning work on the new personal tools treatment for Desktop
Improvements:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Features#User_menu

=== Structured Data ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Building a tool to manually test current implementation of the image
recommendations API
** Whittled down dependencies for the new MediaSearch extension; it now
only requires CirrusSearch

=== Abstract Wikipedia ===
* Blocked by:
** None.
* Blocking:
** None known.
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Working on Phase δ (delta):
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases
** Started circulating early draft of our TDMP pitch for asynchronous
parser fragments.

=== Inuka ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Wikipedia Preview
*** Working on the version information
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278377
*** Working on the debug information
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278381
*** Working on the Wix integration https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278456
** Wikipedia KaiOS
*** Optimize the confirmed characters of the search method
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246786

=== Library ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
** Language team (Niklas and Abijeet) for helping us get partner
descriptions into TranslateWiki
* Updates:
** You can now translate Wikipedia Library partner descriptions!
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate?group=wikipedia-library-partner-descriptions
** Started setting up Matomo to track page views
** Started setting up tags to be translatable via TranslateWiki
** Finishing up The Wikipedia Library extension work

=== Vue.js ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Starting work to unify button implementations in WVUI and better match
what's in the design style guide (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278509)
** Adding contributing guidelines to WVUI:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wvui/+/681178/3/contributing.md (under
review)
** Planning long-term migration of projects to Vue

== Technology ==

=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** More work on email prefs page https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268510,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268511
** Planning for integration with new API of backup card processor
** Work to migrate custom CRM code off drupal 7
** CiviCRM contact deduplication enhancements
** Audit / reconciliation file processing improvements:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277244,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265545

=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
** None
* Blocking:
** None
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** 100% of MW appservers now on 

[Wikitech-l] Working with templates: Looking for wikis who want early access to several improvements

2021-04-21 Thread Johanna Strodt
Hello! Our team, Wikimedia Germany’s Technical Wishes project [1], is
developing a series of improvements to make working with templates easier.
Maybe you’ve already heard of some of the projects that have recently been
deployed: [2] [3] [4]. We plan to release more improvements to make working
with templates easier over the course of this year:

It will become easier to find templates and to insert them into a page. [5]
Removing a template from a page (with Visual Editor) will become easier. [6]
Several problems with the existing interface for editing templates in the
VisualEditor will be tackled. [7]
Template creators and maintainers will be offered more guidance when they
are managing TemplateData with the template documentation editor. [8]

Now we’re looking for a few wikis who want to be the first to benefit from
these changes. If your wiki community is interested in this, all the
improvements listed above would be deployed to your wiki in a series of
releases, likely between May and July 2021. Of course, each deployment
would be announced beforehand.

We’re hoping for wikis of different sizes, both Wikipedias and sister
projects, and wikis with different scripts and writing directions. The
wikis should use TemplateData and ideally have the VisualEditor as a
default feature.

Is your wiki community interested to have early access to these
improvements? Email me or let me know on my talk page.[9]

Best,
Johanna

[1] Technical Wishes project:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes
[2] Bracket matching:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Bracket_Matching
[3] Improved color scheme for syntax highlighting:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Improved_Color_Scheme_of_Syntax_Highlighting
[4] Line numbering:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Line_Numbering
[5] Finding and inserting templates:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Finding_and_inserting_templates
[6] Removing a template from a page using the VisualEditor:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Removing_a_template_from_a_page_using_the_VisualEditor
[7] VisualEditor template dialog improvements:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/VisualEditor_template_dialog_improvements
[8] TemplateData editor improvements:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Template_data_editor_improvements
[9] talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Johanna_Strodt_(WMDE)

-- 
Johanna Strodt
Projektmanagerin Kommunikation Communitys Technische Wunschliste

Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
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