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Tag for strategic progress tracking at the Wikimedia Foundation on "essential", "keeping the lights on” work.

See also OKR-Work. Re-use of these tags was discussed in T357321.

Tag for teams to allow tracking "Maintenance Fraction", or portion of team work that is dedicated to maintenance of existing functionality vs creation of new functionality.
The corresponding tag is OKR-Work.

This was created as part of a pilot run by Team-Practices at the request of WMF management. The pilot has ended, so this tag is no longer used by Team Practices, but some teams still seem to be using it for their own purposes. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Measuring_Types_of_Work for more information.

The creation of this tag was discussed in T109492.

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gerritbot added a comment to T385899: Run the Rust tests in CI.

Change #1148954 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; author: Jforrester):

[operations/deployment-charts@master] wikifunctions: Update evaluators from 2025-05-12-235119 to 2025-05-21-192515

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1148954

Wed, May 21, 8:35 PM · Patch-For-Review, Essential-Work, Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), Abstract Wikipedia Fix-It tasks, function-schemata

gerritbot added a comment to T385899: Run the Rust tests in CI.

Change #1148857 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; author: Jforrester):

[operations/deployment-charts@master] wikifunctions: Update orchestrator from 2025-05-14-112404 to 2025-05-21-192453

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1148857

Wed, May 21, 8:34 PM · Patch-For-Review, Essential-Work, Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), Abstract Wikipedia Fix-It tasks, function-schemata

thcipriani assigned T394931: Buildkit v0.22.0 released to brennen.

Noteworthy, @brennen working on getting latest phorge update out the door this week, so that may eat some time: how soon does this become critical?

Wed, May 21, 8:25 PM · Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥), User-brennen, Essential-Work, GitLab (CI & Job Runners)

brennen added a project to T394931: Buildkit v0.22.0 released: User-brennen.

Wed, May 21, 8:22 PM · Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥), User-brennen, Essential-Work, GitLab (CI & Job Runners)

gerritbot added a comment to T394054: Remove $wgParserEnableLegacyMediaDOM option to disable new media HTML.

Change #1148475 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/TimedMediaHandler@master] Remove $wgParserEnableLegacyMediaDOM option

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1148475

Wed, May 21, 8:19 PM · Patch-For-Review, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), Essential-Work, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress)

gerritbot added a comment to T394054: Remove $wgParserEnableLegacyMediaDOM option to disable new media HTML.

Change #1148950 had a related patch set uploaded (by Arlolra; author: Arlolra):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Remove $wgParserEnableLegacyMediaDOM option

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1148950

Wed, May 21, 7:56 PM · Patch-For-Review, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), Essential-Work, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress)

gerritbot added a comment to T394054: Remove $wgParserEnableLegacyMediaDOM option to disable new media HTML.

Change #1148949 had a related patch set uploaded (by Arlolra; author: Arlolra):

[mediawiki/extensions/MediaSpoiler@master] Remove $wgParserEnableLegacyMediaDOM option

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1148949

Wed, May 21, 7:50 PM · Patch-For-Review, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), Essential-Work, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress)

gerritbot added a comment to T394054: Remove $wgParserEnableLegacyMediaDOM option to disable new media HTML.

Change #1148946 had a related patch set uploaded (by Arlolra; author: Arlolra):

[mediawiki/extensions/Cite@master] Remove $wgParserEnableLegacyMediaDOM option

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1148946

Wed, May 21, 7:44 PM · Patch-For-Review, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), Essential-Work, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress)

gerritbot added a comment to T394054: Remove $wgParserEnableLegacyMediaDOM option to disable new media HTML.

Change #1148945 had a related patch set uploaded (by Arlolra; author: Arlolra):

[mediawiki/extensions/PageImages@master] Remove $wgParserEnableLegacyMediaDOM option

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1148945

Wed, May 21, 7:41 PM · Patch-For-Review, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), Essential-Work, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress)

CodeReviewBot added a comment to T385899: Run the Rust tests in CI.

dmartin merged https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/abstract-wiki/wikifunctions/function-evaluator/-/merge_requests/347

Wed, May 21, 7:25 PM · Patch-For-Review, Essential-Work, Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), Abstract Wikipedia Fix-It tasks, function-schemata

CodeReviewBot added a comment to T385899: Run the Rust tests in CI.

dmartin merged https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/abstract-wiki/wikifunctions/function-orchestrator/-/merge_requests/371

Wed, May 21, 7:24 PM · Patch-For-Review, Essential-Work, Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), Abstract Wikipedia Fix-It tasks, function-schemata

Ryasmeen added a comment to T390072: With Parsoid enabled, DiscussionTools "Latest comment:" links don't work in Safari or Firefox when a section is collapsed.

In T390072#10844726, @DLynch wrote:

@Ryasmeen Interesting -- it works perfectly fine for me in Chrome. Is it still not working for you there?

Wed, May 21, 7:23 PM · Essential-Work, Editing QA, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.27; 2025-04-29), Editing-team (Kanban Board), MinervaNeue (Tracking), Parsoid (Tracking), Browser-Support-Firefox, MobileFrontend, DiscussionTools, Browser-Support-Apple-Safari

gerritbot added a comment to T394054: Remove $wgParserEnableLegacyMediaDOM option to disable new media HTML.

Change #1148929 had a related patch set uploaded (by Arlolra; author: Arlolra):

[mediawiki/extensions/ImageMap@master] Remove $wgParserEnableLegacyMediaDOM option

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1148929

Wed, May 21, 6:14 PM · Patch-For-Review, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), Essential-Work, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress)

Jdforrester-WMF added projects to T392085: PHP Warning: Undefined array key 27: Content-Transform-Team, Abstract Wikipedia team, Essential-Work.

Re-triggered logstash link looking at https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/MavetunaTest. The page is filled with Wikifunctions client calls and simple wikitext. Are we accidentally triggering the wrong path here?

Wed, May 21, 5:15 PM · Essential-Work, Abstract Wikipedia team, Content-Transform-Team, Parsoid, JsonCodec, Wikimedia-production-error

cscott closed T365036: JSON serialization failures on media files as Resolved.

Wed, May 21, 5:03 PM · Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress), Patch-Needs-Improvement, Essential-Work, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.6; 2024-05-21), JsonCodec, MediaWiki-Parser

cscott closed T392133: Async content needs !misermode as Resolved.

Wed, May 21, 5:02 PM · Essential-Work, MediaWiki-Parser, Abstract Wikipedia team, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress)

cscott closed T373383: Parsoid doesn't generate tracking categories for the use of magic words (ISBN, RFC, PMID) as Resolved.

Verified in parser tests; can't verify in production because production doesn't (yet) use Parsoid for the refreshlinksjob.

Wed, May 21, 4:58 PM · Essential-Work, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress), Parsoid

cscott moved T380530: Add Parsoid-compatible <link> tag to legacy parser output for redirects from To Verify to Code Review on the Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress) board.

Wed, May 21, 4:55 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.27; 2025-04-29), Essential-Work, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress), Patch-For-Review, Accessibility, MediaWiki-Redirects

cscott added a comment to T380530: Add Parsoid-compatible <link> tag to legacy parser output for redirects.

Added a patch to add 'href'.

Wed, May 21, 4:55 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.27; 2025-04-29), Essential-Work, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress), Patch-For-Review, Accessibility, MediaWiki-Redirects

gerritbot added a comment to T380530: Add Parsoid-compatible <link> tag to legacy parser output for redirects.

Change #1148913 had a related patch set uploaded (by C. Scott Ananian; author: C. Scott Ananian):

[mediawiki/core@master] Add `href` attribute to `<link rel="mw:PageProp/redirect">` in legacy parser

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1148913

Wed, May 21, 4:54 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.27; 2025-04-29), Essential-Work, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress), Patch-For-Review, Accessibility, MediaWiki-Redirects

cscott added a comment to T380530: Add Parsoid-compatible <link> tag to legacy parser output for redirects.

Currently
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H2O&redirect=no&useparsoid=1 contains <link rel="mw:PageProp/redirect" href="./Water" id="mwAg"> and
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H2O&redirect=no&useparsoid=0 contains <link rel="mw:PageProp/redirect"> I'm not sure why the href is missing?

Wed, May 21, 4:44 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.27; 2025-04-29), Essential-Work, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress), Patch-For-Review, Accessibility, MediaWiki-Redirects

cscott closed T392436: Parsoid-only parser functions aren't specifically listed on Special:Version as Resolved.

https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:Version lists {{#function}} as a Parsoid-only module, seems to work.

Wed, May 21, 4:41 PM · Essential-Work, MediaWiki-Special-pages, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.28; 2025-05-06), Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress), Parsoid, Abstract Wikipedia team

Jdforrester-WMF moved T394557: Make catalyst build / selenium tests blocking in evaluator gitlab pipeline from Incoming to Ready on the Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)) board.

Wed, May 21, 3:57 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), Essential-Work, function-evaluator, Catalyst

Jdforrester-WMF moved T394401: Update Z1124/en-x-simple primary language code to en-simple from Incoming to Ready on the Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)) board.

Wed, May 21, 3:57 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), Essential-Work, function-schemata

Jdforrester-WMF triaged T394557: Make catalyst build / selenium tests blocking in evaluator gitlab pipeline as Medium priority.

Wed, May 21, 3:57 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), Essential-Work, function-evaluator, Catalyst

Jdforrester-WMF moved T394558: Make catalyst build / selenium tests blocking in orchestrator gitlab pipeline from Incoming to Ready on the Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)) board.

Wed, May 21, 3:57 PM · Essential-Work, Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), function-evaluator, Catalyst

Jdforrester-WMF triaged T394558: Make catalyst build / selenium tests blocking in orchestrator gitlab pipeline as Medium priority.

Wed, May 21, 3:57 PM · Essential-Work, Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), function-evaluator, Catalyst

Jdforrester-WMF added projects to T394917: Capacity planning for Wikifunctions services: Essential-Work, Epic.

Provisional concept of a Q1 epic.

Wed, May 21, 3:56 PM · Epic, Essential-Work, function-schemata, function-evaluator, function-orchestrator, Abstract Wikipedia team

Jdforrester-WMF triaged T394839: Inject config into ZObjectSecondaryDataUpdate as Low priority.

Wed, May 21, 3:54 PM · Essential-Work, Abstract Wikipedia Fix-It tasks, WikiLambda, Abstract Wikipedia team

Jdforrester-WMF moved T394820: Replace use of mw.Uri with native URL API from To Triage to Engineering Backlog on the Abstract Wikipedia team board.

Wed, May 21, 3:54 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team, WikiLambda Front-end, Abstract Wikipedia Fix-It tasks, Essential-Work, WikiLambda, Technical-Debt, JavaScript

Jdforrester-WMF triaged T394820: Replace use of mw.Uri with native URL API as Medium priority.

Wed, May 21, 3:54 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team, WikiLambda Front-end, Abstract Wikipedia Fix-It tasks, Essential-Work, WikiLambda, Technical-Debt, JavaScript

Jdforrester-WMF triaged T394658: When running composition implementation of "lists have equal length", evaluator returns "Cannot read property .toString of undefined" as High priority.

Wed, May 21, 3:46 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), Essential-Work, Patch-For-Review, WikiLambda, function-schemata, function-evaluator, function-orchestrator

Jdforrester-WMF moved T394658: When running composition implementation of "lists have equal length", evaluator returns "Cannot read property .toString of undefined" from Incoming to Ready to deploy on the Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)) board.

Wed, May 21, 3:46 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), Essential-Work, Patch-For-Review, WikiLambda, function-schemata, function-evaluator, function-orchestrator

Jdforrester-WMF edited projects for T394658: When running composition implementation of "lists have equal length", evaluator returns "Cannot read property .toString of undefined", added: Essential-Work, Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)); removed Abstract Wikipedia team.

Wed, May 21, 3:46 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), Essential-Work, Patch-For-Review, WikiLambda, function-schemata, function-evaluator, function-orchestrator

Jdforrester-WMF edited projects for T394558: Make catalyst build / selenium tests blocking in orchestrator gitlab pipeline, added: Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), Essential-Work; removed Abstract Wikipedia team.

Wed, May 21, 3:43 PM · Essential-Work, Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), function-evaluator, Catalyst

Jdforrester-WMF edited projects for T394557: Make catalyst build / selenium tests blocking in evaluator gitlab pipeline, added: Essential-Work, Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)); removed Abstract Wikipedia team.

Wed, May 21, 3:43 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), Essential-Work, function-evaluator, Catalyst

A_smart_kitten added a comment to T390072: With Parsoid enabled, DiscussionTools "Latest comment:" links don't work in Safari or Firefox when a section is collapsed.

Huh, checking on iOS Safari right now, I experience the following:

Wed, May 21, 3:41 PM · Essential-Work, Editing QA, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.27; 2025-04-29), Editing-team (Kanban Board), MinervaNeue (Tracking), Parsoid (Tracking), Browser-Support-Firefox, MobileFrontend, DiscussionTools, Browser-Support-Apple-Safari

Jdforrester-WMF triaged T394401: Update Z1124/en-x-simple primary language code to en-simple as Low priority.

Wed, May 21, 3:34 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), Essential-Work, function-schemata

DLynch added a comment to T390072: With Parsoid enabled, DiscussionTools "Latest comment:" links don't work in Safari or Firefox when a section is collapsed.

@Ryasmeen Demonstration in Chrome: https://youtube.com/shorts/0sBtPfK3U3c

Wed, May 21, 3:30 PM · Essential-Work, Editing QA, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.27; 2025-04-29), Editing-team (Kanban Board), MinervaNeue (Tracking), Parsoid (Tracking), Browser-Support-Firefox, MobileFrontend, DiscussionTools, Browser-Support-Apple-Safari

dancy updated the task description for T394931: Buildkit v0.22.0 released.

Wed, May 21, 3:24 PM · Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥), User-brennen, Essential-Work, GitLab (CI & Job Runners)

dancy updated the task description for T394931: Buildkit v0.22.0 released.

Wed, May 21, 3:23 PM · Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥), User-brennen, Essential-Work, GitLab (CI & Job Runners)

dancy triaged T394931: Buildkit v0.22.0 released as Low priority.

Wed, May 21, 3:20 PM · Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥), User-brennen, Essential-Work, GitLab (CI & Job Runners)

dancy created T394931: Buildkit v0.22.0 released.

Wed, May 21, 3:19 PM · Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥), User-brennen, Essential-Work, GitLab (CI & Job Runners)

DLynch added a comment to T390072: With Parsoid enabled, DiscussionTools "Latest comment:" links don't work in Safari or Firefox when a section is collapsed.

@Ryasmeen Interesting -- it works perfectly fine for me in Chrome. Is it still not working for you there?

Wed, May 21, 3:10 PM · Essential-Work, Editing QA, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.27; 2025-04-29), Editing-team (Kanban Board), MinervaNeue (Tracking), Parsoid (Tracking), Browser-Support-Firefox, MobileFrontend, DiscussionTools, Browser-Support-Apple-Safari

Ryasmeen added a comment to T390072: With Parsoid enabled, DiscussionTools "Latest comment:" links don't work in Safari or Firefox when a section is collapsed.

@DLynch: oh, it works correctly on Safari but I checked on Chrome. Should it not work on Chrome as well?

Wed, May 21, 3:07 PM · Essential-Work, Editing QA, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.27; 2025-04-29), Editing-team (Kanban Board), MinervaNeue (Tracking), Parsoid (Tracking), Browser-Support-Firefox, MobileFrontend, DiscussionTools, Browser-Support-Apple-Safari

Wangombe closed T188138: "For later" articles loaded twice, a subtask of T129203: Discarded suggestions keep coming back when clicking "refresh" button, as Resolved.

Wed, May 21, 2:55 PM · Essential-Work, ContentTranslation

Jdforrester-WMF closed T365786: serialising lists of months from code as Resolved.

In T365786#10844568, @DSantamaria wrote:

@Jdforrester-WMF Should we close it?

Wed, May 21, 2:51 PM · Essential-Work, Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), Wikifunctions

Jdforrester-WMF assigned T365786: serialising lists of months from code to cmassaro.

Wed, May 21, 2:51 PM · Essential-Work, Abstract Wikipedia team (25Q4 (Apr–Jun)), Wikifunctions

taavi removed a parent task for T394923: [Hiring] review application 428854492: T394925: Phakhaphon Phummiphat .

Wed, May 21, 2:32 PM · Essential-Work, Editing-team

• XXXX100000 added a parent task for T394923: [Hiring] review application 428854492: T394925: Phakhaphon Phummiphat .

Wed, May 21, 2:31 PM · Essential-Work, Editing-team