Hi,

for HTML version see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-12-04

Željko

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= 2019-12-04 =

== Callouts ==
* Release Engineering - unusual train schedule:
** This week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - group1 + group2
** Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.10
** December 23-January 3rd - No deploys (including train), Holiday break

== Product ==

=== Editing ===
* Updates:
** Finalizing work on high fidelity prototype for replies on talk pages

=== Growth ===
* Updates:
** Cleaning up remaining bugs from v1.0 release of newcomer tasks

=== iOS native app ===
* Updates:
**Released 6.5 on 12/2 - [[phab:project/view/4245]]
***Fundraising announcement on article
***History & Diffs screens
**Beginning exploratory work on 6.6 [[phab:project/view/4273]]
***Mobile-html
***Bug fixes

=== Android native app ===
* Updates:
** Suggested Edits v3 is live, as well as fundraising announcement (article
banner in newest app version, and in the Feed in older versions)
** Continuing integration with mobile-html, and continuing to test the
latest Parsoid / content service with language variant support.

=== Readers Web ===
* Updates:
** Summary: planning for desktop improvements and tapering off of advanced
mode.
** [[[Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements]] Desktop Improvements Project
(Vector / DIP)]:
*** Planning, research, and task creation
*** [[[phab:T239248]] <nowiki>Divide VectorTemplate into
components</nowiki>]
** Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend / Portals):
*** [[[Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions]] Advanced mode]:
**** [[[phab:T232652]] <nowiki>Add History to article toolbar for all
logged-in users</nowiki>]
**** [[[phab:T232594]] <nowiki>Add article and discussion tabs to all
logged-in users on mobile</nowiki>]
*** Miscellaneous:
**** [[[phab:T232734]] <nowiki>Mobile logout should not involve an
interstitial</nowiki>]
**** [[[phab:T225213]] <nowiki>Main Menu should work without JavaScript to
be more accessible and a better user experience</nowiki>]
**** [[[phab:T214045]] <nowiki> Drawers should be removed from DOM after
close</nowiki>]

=== Product Infrastructure ===
* Updates:
** Computer-Aided Tagging will launch soon (TM), after the go-ahead from
Performance
** mobileapps flapping is under investigation ([[phab:T239344]])
*** seems related to increased request rate associated with the Parsoid/PHP
rollout ([[phab:T238832#5708029]])
*** There are also some unexplained MW API request timeouts for which I'm
adding more logging for further investigation

=== Structured Data ===
* Updates:
** rdfDumps now unblocked
** getting recentchanges by slot merged, so unblocking search
** work continues on new input types for structured data
** tech talk on Structured Data on Commons 1 week from today

=== Parsing ===
* Updates:
** Parsoid/PHP deployed to all wikis and all products except (a) linter (b)
language converter. These 2 products are served by Parsoid/JS

=== Language ===
* Updates:
** Team is back from Offsite.
** More Apertium MT updates coming up.
** Exploring MarianMT at: [[phab:T234194]]

=== Inuka ===
* Updates:
** KaiOS better pagination [[phab:T234436]]

=== UI Standardization ===
* Updates:
** Design Style Guide https://design.wikimedia.org/style-guide/
*** Polishing tasks
*** Improving responsive layout
*** Adding further components, like recently Comboboxes
** OOUI release v0.35.2 in preparation

== Technology ==

=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Updates:
** Monitoring fundraiser, tuning parameters to keep receipts and stats
flowing smoothly
** Yesterday donors gave us more money by far than any other single day in
the foundation's history
*** For publicly available stats (as CSVs), see https://frdata.wikimedia.org
** Seeing lower-than-expected CentralNotice banner impressions for US, AU,
and IE but that may be all because of bots: [[phab:T239748]]
** Small tweaks to Civi custom code to reduce logspam and cache a few more
db lookups.

=== Core Platform ===
* Blocking:
** Product Infrastructure - mobileapps flapping is under investigation
([[phab:T239344]]), seems related to increased request rate associated with
the Parsoid/PHP rollout
* Updates:
** Next round of Core REST API work
** Virtual offsite next week (Dec 10-12)

=== Engineering Productivity ===

==== Release Engineering ====
* Blocking:
** Wikimedia Deutschland/Wikidata: Setting up Pipeline CI job for
wikibase/vuejs-components repository: [[gerrit:551829]]
* Updates:
** Train Health
*** Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - [[phab:T233856]] - group0 only because of
Thanksgiving
*** This week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - [[phab:T233856]] - group1 + group2
*** Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.10 - [[phab:T233858]]

=== Scoring Platform ===
* Blocking:
*** Ack that we're blocking [[phab:T233448#5638765]]
* Updates:
*** Jade API code is ready for review again - [[phab:T199834]]
*** Model improvements coming for euwiki and cawiki - [[phab:T238839]]
*** Model improvements coming for nowiki - [[phab:T130291]]
*** Looking at SpaCy and other "industrial strength" NLP to boost ORES
models fitness and performance.
*** Extending our documentation around deployment prep:
[[wikitech:ORES/Prepare_deployment]]
*** Developing improved topic taxonomies.  See
https://github.com/halfak/wikitax

=== Security ===
* Updates:
** Password Reset Update: Security Proposal - [[phab:T237755]] - complete
** Security Review For Page Content Service route /page/mobile-html -
[[phab:T227114]] - nearly complete
**  A Large-scale Study of Wikipedia Users' Quality of Experience: data
release - [[phab:T217318]] - nearly complete
** Security Review for whichbrowser/parser - [[phab:T239259]] - in progress
** Data Map (GDPR) update period closes 12/6

== Wikimedia DE ==

=== Wikidata ===
* Blocked by:
** Release Engineering: Setting up Pipeline CI job for
wikibase/vuejs-components repository: [[gerrit:551829]]
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