Hello, This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week starting 2017-12-11.

*Note*: Because of the holidays the next weekly update will be sent out on 8 January 2018. See you in the new year!

== Highlights == * We've officially closed out the Discovery Department wiki page (to include the portal work) and added a new Search Platform page. [0] [1] [2] * The automation of the Wikipedia.org Portal page is now complete. Going forward, as part of the automation process, two tickets will continue to be updated for the stats and translations weekly updates. More information on how the automation is done can be found in the documentation on diffusion. 🎁 🎉 [3] [4] [5] * "Gnomes and trolls and hobgoblins (oh my!)—Failed queries and the vicarious fear of missing out" ** Check out Trey's latest blog post! [6]

== Discussions ==

=== Search === * We closed out the large ticket that tracked a lot of the work that we've done so far for backend data engineering and plumbing for machine learning to rank [7] * We also closed out a ticket that fixed an issue with some features that were being hidden by the completion suggester such as sub phrase matching on wikisource. [8] * We've ported all our Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js for the Search Platform team [9] * Trey finished up a long review of the Serbian Morphological Libraries that are available [10] [11] * We did some tuning to Wikidata prefix search [12] * Added ability for searches to return extra match data in API responses (Wikidata will use it) [13]

=== WDQS === * |Categories are now updated automatically into Blazegraph each week on Monday. [14]

=== Portal === * Jan finished up several small tasks related to the automation of the Wikipedia.org portal page [15]: ** Update technical documentation for portals repository [16] ** Fixed a minor UI problem with rendering the small print in English and Russian [17]

== FY 2017-18 Q2 (Oct-Dec) goals == This status was last updated 2017-12-12 [18]

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142582 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/WPOR/browse/master/README.md [6] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/12/12/failed-queries-fear-of-missing-out/ [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162053 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178474 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178474 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178926 [11] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Serbian_Stemmer_Analy... [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182136 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182145 [14] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/Categories [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140159 [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182119 [17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178744 [18] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-12-11#FY_2017-1...

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