Hello, We're back! Here is our post Hackathon update this week from the Search Platform team.

As always, feedback and questions welcome.

== Discussions ==

=== Search === * Erik worked on evaluating and building out features provided by `query_explorer` functionality of learning-to-rank plugin, there is lots of good info in the ticket [0] * David worked on allowing searches with "all:" keyword to also work on non-English projects, and not only with its translations ("searchall") [1] * David increased the cirrus indices to have more shards for enwiki_general, viwiki_general and wikidatawiki_content [2] * David reverted an earlier patch that had depreciated the global namespace handling of the prefix keyword; the new patch was deployed — prefix and associated InputBox forms should work as before. [3] * Trey and Gehel deployed the updated search/extra plugin and search/extra-analysis-slovak plugin with Slovak Stemmer [4] and will be available after a re-indexing [5] * Stas enabled deep category support on all wikis (except private) [6] * Stas reindexed wikidata to enable support for searching for string & external ID property values [7], [8] * Stas implemented basic text indexing for Lexemes [9]

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187148#4086754 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165110 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192064 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193392 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191543 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191545 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194260 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163642 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99899 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195912 ---

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