Hello, Here is the Discovery weekly update for 2017-10-02. As always, feedback and questions are welcome.
*Programing note*: Due to the US holiday there will be no status update for the week of 20 November. Updates will resume the week of 27 November.
== Highlights == * There is a survey on French Wikipedia asking if they should replace static maps with dynamic maps and to define best practices. [0] * An update on the Discovery team and projects was shared [1]
== Discussions ==
=== Search === * Erik did quite a bit of research into whether we should expand the rescore windows for learning to rank — it was decided it wouldn't be helpful [2] * David fixed a bug where the JobQueue was trying to report update metrics when response was not valid [3] * Gehel paid down some technical debt by creating a dedicated elastic component in the APT repository — which will help get the next upgrade more smoothly [4] * Stas fixed bug where removed Wikidata description was still showing when searching [5]
=== Analysis === * Mikhail provided analysis of external & internal WDQS traffic as preparation for sizing of internal WDQS cluster. [6]
=== WDQS === * Stas reloaded WDQS database to enable external links and performance improvements [7]
[0] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Sondage/Remplacement_des_cartes... [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2017-November/001601.html [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162369 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180298 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179964 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180382 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179850 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176593
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