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-…
[4]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Audiences_2_check-in_Q1_October_201…
[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_Fall…
[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
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deb tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation