Hello,
A few quick updates form the Discovery department this week. Feedback and
questions are welcome.
== Highlights ==
* Mikhail sent out an email describing the cool new backend update that all
the dashboards got - from Vagrant to Puppet [0]
== Discussions ==
* A letter from some of the attendees of Iberoconf 2017 detailing requests
to the Foundation for more and better communications and translations. [1]
[2]
* The Analysis team started discussing about adding continuous integration
configuration to all wikimedia/discovery analytics repositories [3]
=== Search ===
* Erik did a lot of intensive research evaluating the libraries for machine
learning ranking with LambdaRank and settled on xgboost running over yarn
[4]
* We are having a lively discussion about how best to utilize the Kuromoji
Japanese language analyzer [5]
=== Analysis ===
* We've updated the dashboards with proper licensing (since it's all open
source) so that anyone can use it and / or borrow the code to fix an issue
they have [6]
[0]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2017-June/001541.html
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Iberocoop/Buenos_Aires_Letter
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Iberocoop:Iberoconf_2017
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153856
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162061
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166731
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167930
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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