Hello, This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week starting 2019-01-21 (acknowledging a little delay).
As always, feedback and questions welcome.
== Discussions ==
=== Search ===
* Trey did a write up about his ideas for the wrong keyboard implementation and UI, and the new language models and parameter optimization for TextCat for the wrong-keyboard and wrong-encoding detection. [0] * Trey also reviewed, updated and manually re-built the Hebmorph plugin for ElasticSearch 6 with help from the rest of the Search team [1] * David double checked that chi to psi/omega indices are no longer used and delete them. [2] * David also worked on dropping the "archive" type in the general index [3] * David wrapped up on moving the phrase suggest related code to its FallbackMethod [4] * Erik worked on modifying Wikidata entity completion search for per-language tuning parameters [5] * Erik also worked on a bug where we didn't retain cross-cluster identifier in OtherIndexes [6] * Erik fulfilled a feature request to add chronological sorting by-page-creation-timestamp for search results [7] * David also upgraded the Elasticsearch plugins extra, extra-analysis and highlighter to elasticsearch 6.5.4 [8] * Stas is working on separating ElasticSearch parts of Wikibase into a separate extension [9]
[0] [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Implementation_Design... [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214439 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214052 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200198 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213098 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213106 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214050 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195071 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214312 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190022
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