Greetings,

This is the weekly update for Discovery.

As always, feedback and questions are welcome.

== Discussions ==

=== Search ===
* Erik's bugfixes: T171009 (don't issue a near match query with empty query), T171155 (match redirects with the ''intitle'' keyword).  [0] [1]
* Stas' Wikidata entity search with Elastic is in testing [2] [3]
* Stas' work on the archive search is in final call, to be enabled next week. [4]
* David worked on collecting features from the sltr query by using a custom Accumulator to collect feature names and extracting feature vectors from the ltr plugin [5]
* Trey's language analysis analysis tools will soon be released in RelForge. See phab ticket T171516. [6] Comments on the extensive/excessive documentation copied to MediaWiki are welcome. [7]

=== Analysis  ===
* Chelsy found a bug in the ''renderMenu'' function in ''shinydashboard'' package that was fixed—but we need to wait for latest version to be uploaded to CRAN before we can patch our instance [8]

=== Interactive ===
* Mapframe was enabled for cswiki by a volunteer contributor. [0]

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171009
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171155
[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#wbsearchentities_with_ElasticSearch_test
[3] http://elastic-wikidata.wmflabs.org/wb.html
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163235
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168813
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171516
[7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Analysis_Analysis_Tools
[8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170724
[9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171588

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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
Wikimedia Foundation