Howdy,
A few updates this week from across the Discovery department.
== Highlights ==
*Annual Plan "Collab Jam" took place in the SF offices this week, where
lots of conversations were had on how teams within the Foundation can work
together in the next fiscal year to do cool things.
* ICU Folding is now effective on all English, French, Hebrew and Greek
wikis. [1]
** Note: please consider asking for this feature if you would like to
enable it on a particular language.
== Discussions ==
=== Search ===
* The new contentmodel search keyword is now operational on commons. [0]
* ICU Folding is now effective on all English, French, Hebrew and Greek
wikis. [1]
** Note: please consider asking for this feature if you would like to
enable it on a particular language.
=== Portal ===
* Had an issue with a bad caching of an error message which resulted in
text not being displayed on the
wikipedia.org page for a very short time.
This will be fixed with a patch. [2]
* Article statistics were updated for
wikipedia.org,
wikiquote.org and
wikiversity.org [3]
=== Wikidata Query Service ===
* Upgraded to Blazegraph 2.1.5 RC, several bugs fixed.
* POST is now enabled for WDQS queries.
* Started nomination process for federation endpoints. [4]
[0]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156371
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155515
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158782
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546
[4]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_federation_input
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The archive of all past updates can be found on
MediaWiki.org:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates
Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as "Easy" or "Volunteer
needed" in Phabricator.
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation