Here is the Discovery status update for the week starting 17 October. Feedback and questions are welcome.
== Discussions ==
* Added a Request for Comment (RfC) on refactoring Kartotherian to use an established plugin system [0]
* Added more information in order to estimate the hardware requirements for ordering new servers for Elasticsearch [1]
* Had a discussion about needing variant options for Chinese in Language Settings [2]
* Discussed the preliminary results on running Paulscore with BM25 on zh, ja, th [3]
* Started the discussion on the roll out plan/path for Maps [4]
* Added a Request for Comment (RfC) on <maplink> support for link text vs fullscreen caption text [5]
=== Search ===
* Enable sub-phrase completion suggester on wikitech,
mediawiki.org and wikisource [6]
* Enable document versioning support via wikimedia-extra extension in production [7]
* Remove custom analysis chains from vagrant [8]
* Map modifier letter apostrophes to straight or curly quotes in the French Elasticsearch analysis chain [9]
Search tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016:
* Put SITENAME in search box placeholder "searchsuggest-search" like in MobileFrontend's "mobile-frontend-placeholder [10]
* Integrate "did you mean" data collection into search satisfaction schema [11]
* Improve processing of the apostrophe by the search engine in Ukrainian [12]
* Enable Latvian and Lithuanian analyzers [13]
* CirrusSearch SQL query for locating pages for reindex performs poorly [14]
* MySQL chooses poor query plan for link counting query [15]
* When showing search results for different language, exclude images from Commons [16]
=== Analysis ===
Analysis tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016:
* Add a PaulScore approximation to
discovery.wmflabs.org (waiting on phab:T138087 to be deployed on the train) [17] [18]
=== Portal ===
Portal updates that need code review - PLEASE HELP:
* update logo for new branding guidelines [19]
* add information for Wikipedia / Wikimedia apps availability [20]
=== Interactive ===
* Implement static kartotherian service with geojson layer [21]
* Document how to use maps directly from JavaScript [22]
* Maplinks external groups are applied multiples times [23]
* Perpetration for depreciating <slippymap> is done thanks to RolandUnger, who handled updating most of the templates [24]
Interactive tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016:
* Enable double-click zooming in full screen mode [25]
* Coordinates do not fit in the detail box on one line [26]
* Wikivoyage groups incorrectly show external layers [27]
* Opening VisualEditor on en.wp always loads Mapbox [28]
* Maplink breaks when showing undefined groups [29]
== Other Noteworthy Stuff ==
* Decommissioned deployment-elastic08.deployment-prep.eqiad.wmflabs [30]