Hello,
I hope your day is going well.
Here is this week's update from the Discovery department.
== Discussions ==
* Analysis team gave an eventlogging crash course
* Chatted about how to help with an effort to create offline pages for
Wikipedia; will use the portal page as a test case
== Events and News ==
=== Search ===
* Works in progress but not yet in production:
** File property search functionality merged and documented. As soon as
deployment happens (next week), the reindexing will be performed. [1] [2]
** Translate extension updated to allow searches in a specific language
(without translations) [3]
** Satisfaction schema update for checkin events on if page is visible [4]
** Update the ascii folding to preserve original emits that are duplicated
tokens for non ascii characters [5]
** Update the search api interwiki to only query when srinterwiki=1 is
passed [6]
=== Analysis ===
* Works in progress but not yet in production:
** Analysis of BM25 A/B test [7]
** Analysis of WDQS geographic breakdown of SPARQL queries [8]
** Expanding display of other countries in portal dashboard [9]
** Analysis of recent spike/upward trend on portal [10]
=== Portal ===
* Work in progress but not in production:
** Improve color palette [11]
** Update for new translations [12]
** Update articles by language statistics [13]
** Test for adding app links to page [14]
** Update WMF logo [15]
** Fix where a language link broke on two lines [16]
** Few other small updates
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144447
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#File_properties_search
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125944
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145102
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146886
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147003
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143589
[8]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143762
[9]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138107
[10]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146214
[11]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146231
[12]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143338
[13]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546
[14]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137495
[15]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144834
[16]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144007
== Other Noteworthy Stuff ==
* Note: we had a code deployment freeze this week due to Ops having an
offsite. Much of the work completed above will be released the week of 3
October.
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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.
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R
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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation