Hello, A few updates this week from across the Discovery team.

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== Discussions == * Paul conducted a cartographic review of the new map styles for the Design team on 6 Sep 2017.

=== Search === * Gehel updated logstash to stop deploying custom elasticsearch plugins that are no longer used and did a rolling restart of elasticsearch/logstash [0] * David upgraded an extra plugin as part of the upgrade to elastic 5.5.x [1] * Erik turned on a third test for the Search Relevance Survey (graded by humans), the test is expected to take a week. [2] * Erik trained MLR models for all wikis with >= 1% of search traffic, in preparation for AB test next week * Erik investigating potential memory leaks in MLR model training which makes training for large wikis (de, en) error prone

=== Portal === * Jan fixed a bug where the typeahead wasn't working for a single character [3] * Jan also updated the Wikipedia portal statistics and translations on 6 Sep 2017 [4] [5]

=== Maps === * Gehel finished up reimaging the maps-test servers [6]

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174933 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174652 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175046 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173885 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142582 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169011

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[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