* Trey also reviewed, updated and manually re-built the Hebmorph plugin for ElasticSearch 6 with help from the rest of the Search team [1]

Hello, This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week starting 2019-01-21 (acknowledging a little delay). As always, feedback and questions welcome. == Discussions == === Search === * Trey did a write up about his ideas for the wrong keyboard implementation and UI, and the new language models and parameter optimization for TextCat for the wrong-keyboard and wrong-encoding detection. [0] * Trey also reviewed, updated and manually re-built the Hebmorph plugin for ElasticSearch 6 with help from the rest of the Search team [1] * David double checked that chi to psi/omega indices are no longer used and delete them. [2] * David also worked on dropping the "archive" type in the general index [3] * David wrapped up on moving the phrase suggest related code to its FallbackMethod [4] * Erik worked on modifying Wikidata entity completion search for per-language tuning parameters [5] * Erik also worked on a bug where we didn't retain cross-cluster identifier in OtherIndexes [6] * Erik fulfilled a feature request to add chronological sorting by-page-creation-timestamp for search results [7] * David also upgraded the Elasticsearch plugins extra, extra-analysis and highlighter to elasticsearch 6.5.4 [8] * Stas is working on separating ElasticSearch parts of Wikibase into a separate extension [9] [0] [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Implementation_Desig… [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214439 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214052 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200198 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213098 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213106 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214050 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195071 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214312 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190022 ---- Subscribe to receive on-wiki (or opt-in email) notifications of the Discovery weekly update. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Discovery_Weekly 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 (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Discovery mailing list Discovery(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery