Hello, Here is the Discovery status update for the week starting 19 September. Feedback and questions are welcome. == Discussions == * The team had several conversations about elastic search things (ICU_folding) and external referrers and how to get db access for investigations as well as mock design for displaying the upcoming cross-wiki search results * Data Demolition Derby was completed for cleaning up old Qualtrics survey data == Events and News == == Interactive == * Geoshapes service can now get both polygons (e.g. city outline) and lines (eg. rivers and roads) by their Wikidata ID * "properties" in GeoJSON now apply to the ExternalData geoshapes == Search == * CompletionSuggester with defaultsort demo available, feedback welcome [1] * Completed analysis of squashing Russian stress accents and folding ё to е for Russian wikis. [2] * Updated ElasticSearch document versioning in CirrusSearch [3] ** This is contingent on a full cluster restart and a deployment of the configuration change [4] * Updated Completion Suggester code for searching a subpage title using the search bar [5] * Added position increment gap to fields where positions are stored [6] * Documented our usage of the term 'PaulScore' [7] * Upgraded ElasticSearch and plugins to 2.3.5 [8] * Monitor the usage of in memory data structures used by ElasticSearch [9] == Analysis == * Completed analysis to determine if the new Wikipedia.org portal page display caused any pageview decreases to smaller wikis (UK) (analysis html and pdf docs) [10] [11] [12] * Updated dashboards to allow for easier bookmarking/copying [13] ==Wikidata Query Service== * Fixed when search for insource:tag finds "<tag>" but not "{{#tag:tag}} [14] == Wikipedia.org Portal == * Requested additional translations from translatewiki [15] * Optimize the image optimization [16] == Other Noteworthy Stuff == * Yuri and Julien are attending State of the Map 2016 conference in Brussels [1] http://mw-sug-subpages-relforge.wmflabs.org/w/default_sort_demo.html [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Removing_Stress_Acce… [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144039 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146210 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123015 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145405 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144243 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145404 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144387 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143853 [11] http://wikimedia-research.github.io/Discovery-Research-Portal/ukrainian/ [12] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Wikipedia.org_Portal_and_Ukrain… [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145478 [14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145023 [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143338 [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143208 ---- The full update, and archive of 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 Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation