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
----
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
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