Hello,
Here is the Discovery status update for the week starting 19 September.
Feedback and questions are welcome.
== Discussions ==
* The team had several conversations about elastic search things
(ICU_folding) and external referrers and how to get db access for
investigations as well as mock design for displaying the upcoming
cross-wiki search results
* Data Demolition Derby was completed for cleaning up old Qualtrics survey
data
== Events and News ==
== Interactive ==
* Geoshapes service can now get both polygons (e.g. city outline) and lines
(eg. rivers and roads) by their Wikidata ID
* "properties" in GeoJSON now apply to the ExternalData geoshapes
== Search ==
* CompletionSuggester with defaultsort demo available, feedback welcome [1]
* Completed analysis of squashing Russian stress accents and folding ё to е
for Russian wikis. [2]
* Updated ElasticSearch document versioning in CirrusSearch [3]
** This is contingent on a full cluster restart and a deployment of the
configuration change [4]
* Updated Completion Suggester code for searching a subpage title using the
search bar [5]
* Added position increment gap to fields where positions are stored [6]
* Documented our usage of the term 'PaulScore' [7]
* Upgraded ElasticSearch and plugins to 2.3.5 [8]
* Monitor the usage of in memory data structures used by ElasticSearch [9]
== Analysis ==
* Completed analysis to determine if the new
Wikipedia.org portal page
display caused any pageview decreases to smaller wikis (UK) (analysis html
and pdf docs) [10] [11] [12]
* Updated dashboards to allow for easier bookmarking/copying [13]
==Wikidata Query Service==
* Fixed when search for insource:tag finds "<tag>" but not
"{{#tag:tag}}
[14]
==
Wikipedia.org Portal ==
* Requested additional translations from translatewiki [15]
* Optimize the image optimization [16]
== Other Noteworthy Stuff ==
* Yuri and Julien are attending State of the Map 2016 conference in Brussels
[1]
http://mw-sug-subpages-relforge.wmflabs.org/w/default_sort_demo.html
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Removing_Stress_Acce…
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144039
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146210
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123015
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145405
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144243
[8]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145404
[9]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144387
[10]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143853
[11]
http://wikimedia-research.github.io/Discovery-Research-Portal/ukrainian/
[12]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Wikipedia.org_Portal_and_Ukrain…
[13]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145478
[14]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145023
[15]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143338
[16]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143208
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The full update, and archive of 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
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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation