Hello, Here is the Discovery status update for the week starting 24 October. Feedback and questions are welcome.

== Discussions == * Show globe icon 🌐 next to all <maplinks> links [0] * Request for Comment - All map location names should be shown in the user's language [1] * Merge Kartographer with commons-on-osm [2] * Discussion and recommendations for the overall usability of the new search engine results page with the Design team [3]

== Search == * Don't show the "results from other projects" box if empty [4] * Check to see if popularity_score is wrong in a lot of articles [5] * Disable highlighting on insource queries if experimental highlighter in not turned on [6] * Reindex search cluster for BM25 test [7] * Search works incorrectly when the query contains words used as namespace names and a colon (:) [8] * ask for translations for 'showing results from' (Polish, Dutch, Arabic and Chinese) [9] * Configure varnish to include wdqs nodes in codfw [10] * Started second BM25 A/B test (ja, zh, th) [11] * Turn on second BM25 test [12] * Fix in_array() expects parameter 2 to be an array or collection in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.28.0-wmf.22/extensions/CirrusSearch/includes/Search/RescoreBuilders.php on line 160 [13] * Communicate to community the upcoming BM25 release [14] * [Recurring task] CirrusSearch: what is updated during re-indexing [15] * Review and fix the description of autocomplete profiles (completion suggester) in the Search preference tab [16] * Enable cross-wiki backend search functionality on it.wikipedia - we made it faster [17] * Enable GC (garbage collection) logs on Elasticsearch JVM [18] * Argument 2 passed to SearchEngine::processCompletionResults() must be an instance of SearchSuggestionSet, Elastica\Response in SearchEngine class [19] * [bug] cirrussearch fatal in 1.28.0-wmf.23 - [20]

== Analysis == * Compare ZRR for query features across other search engines [21] * Investigate what we'd need to do to ignore double quotes in search queries [22] * Maps Dashboard: fix and update [23] * Analyze the variance of user-agent's, country, and other useful metrics of google referred traffic with and without a search query available in referrer [24] * Add a PaulScore approximation to discovery.wmflabs.org [25]

== Portal == '''''Portal updates that got code reviews after rebasing - thanks! ''''' * update logo for new branding guidelines [26] * add information for Wikipedia / Wikimedia apps availability [27]

== Interactive == * Deprecate <slippymap> provided by MapSources in favor of Kartographer's <mapframe> [28] * Illegal and unheralded removal of MapSourcesHooks::wfgeoLink function hook on dewikivoyage [29] * More details button should appear when map is loaded [30] * maps1002 does not run latest kartotherian [31] * Snapshot service not working with empty groups param [32] * Kartographer no longer displays external data credits [33] * Graph behaves differently on PHP7 - was fixed automagically [34] * <mapframe>/<maplink>: Invalid GeoJSON code in wgKartographerLiveData prevents drawing of maps at Wikivoyage [35] * Don't pollute history with map hashes [36] * Fix Governor's demo - party affiliations (needed a fix with WDQS SPARQL query - thanks, Stas!) [37] * Show wikidata query results as map markers [38] * Support geomask externaldata in Kartotherian [39] * Geoshape service should return map mask polygon with holes [40]

'''''Interactive tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Nov 1, 2016:''''' * Use maps snapshot service until user interacts (click/mouseover?) [41] * Geoshape service should return map mask polygon with holes [42] * Show preview with static maps is broken [43] * [Bug] GeoData\Searcher fatal error in 1.28-wmf.23 [44] * Support data.get() with optional language param [45] * Remove static background from mapframes after going dynamic [46]

== Interactive Ops Tasks == * WV layers dropdown bug on vem.wmflabs.org [47] * Maps - move traffic to eqiad instead of codfw [48] * Configure new maps servers in eqiad [49] * Unmet dependencies around postgis apt packages on maps* servers [50] * increase replication factor for system_auth keyspace on maps / cassandra [51] * Upgrade PostGIS on maps servers to version 2.2+ [52] * Maps-test was created with incorrect initial encoding [53] * Update Node on Maps to v4.6.0 [54] * elastic2020 is powered off and does not want to restart [55] * Maps - error when doing initial tiles generation: "Error: could not create converter for SQL_ASCII"" [56]

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145176 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112948 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149280 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139310#2748175 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96881 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148136 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148107 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147498 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148344 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143354 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146158 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147495 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147497 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148840 [14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147509 [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147505: [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148010 [17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146179 [18] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134853 [19] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148978 [20] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149254 [21] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136377 [22] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149143 [23] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149127 [24] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128146 [25] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144424 [26] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144834 [27] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137495 [28] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136768 [29] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149288 [30] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148882 [31] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148881 [32] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149145 [33] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149154 [34] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148250 [35] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148971 [36] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144880 [37] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149281 [38] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134816 [39] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149151 [40] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146582 [41] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148070 [42] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146582 [43] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149070 [44] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149159 [45] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149149 [46] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149155 [47] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148865 [48] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145758 [49] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138092 [50] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147780 [51] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149074: [52] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144763 [53] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148114 [54] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148661 [55] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149006 [56] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148031

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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.

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Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

57 links‽ That has to be some kind of record.