Hello all,
Here is the Discovery weekly update for 2017-10-23. As always, feedback and questions are welcome.
==Highlights==
* Jan and Deb chatted with Release Engineering about the work that we're doing to automate updates to the Wikipedia.org portal and we have lots of new information to incorporate into the automation effort. [0]
* Deb and Paul attended the State of the Map US conference in Boulder, Colorado held this past weekend (Oct 19 - 22) and Deb wrote up some of her favorite talks on the Discovery list. [1] [2]
* The quarterly check-in for Technology:Search Platform was held last week, view the slide deck on Commons. [3]
* The quarterly check-in for Audiences:Readers:Discovery was held this week, view the slide deck on Commons. [4]
==Discussions==
=== Search ===
* Erik fixed a rarely occurring issue where the ApiQuerySearch.php call to a member function termMatches() on a non-object (boolean) [5]
* David turned off an A/B test for relaxing the retrieval query filter and analysis will begin soon [6] [7]
* David also reviewed and update the mjolnir kafka implementation on large feature sets [8]
* We ran a full re-index of un-fallbacked languages on Monday, Oct 23; everything went smoothly and we had made several notifications to the various communities about this minor change and more detailed information can be found on MediaWiki. [9] [10]
* Stas improved field mapping for nginx logstash by adding a few field types [11]
* Trey finished up a Language Analysis Morphological Library Research Spike and identified 6 languages that will be researched more deeply in the coming weeks [12]
=== Analysis ===
* Mikhail attended the Mobile App team's offsite last week and learned quite a bit about their processes and gave suggestions on how Analysis can help in the future.
=== Portal ===
* Jan fixed a minor issue with the dwell-time impact of `touch-action: manipulation;` on the portal [13]
* We had help from the community on a minor bug with a licensing link in the footer, the code has been merged and will be in production with our next portal update, tentatively scheduled for Monday, Oct 30. [14]
* After chatting with RelEng earlier this week, we decided to not do some of the work we had thought we needed to do in order to automate the portal updates. [15]
* The name for Northern Sami needed to be changed on the portal from "Sámegiella" to "Davvisámegiella" - this change was done in translatewiki and will be in production with the next portal update, tentatively scheduled for Monday, Oct 30. [16]
=== Maps ===
* The maps team and various others have been chiming in on the best way to deploy meddo as part of tilerator-deploy—Gehel has gone ahead with a few patches that will replace direct dependencies with Kartotherian dependency and adding meddo and ClearTables as deployment dependencies, but more conversations might be needed. [17]
[0]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177350[1]
https://2017.stateofthemap.us/program/ State of the Map US conference
[2]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2017-October/001593.html[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Technology_department_quarterly_check-in_for_Community_and_Technical_Community_programs_2017-10.pdf[4]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Audiences_2_check-in_Q1_October_2017.pdf[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167410[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177956[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177957[8]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178274[9]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Disabling_Messaging_Fallbacks_for_Language_Analysis[10]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177871[11]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178530[12]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171652[13]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174002[14]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178954[15]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178554[16]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178981[17]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162241