[Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2018-04-16

Here is another update from the Search Platform team. This one includes the week of 2018-04-16 and 2018-04-23 As always, feedback and questions welcome. == Highlights== * The Search team is looking for a volunteer to help with this easy ticket: T192458 Enable search result ranking in MySQL full text search. [0] == Discussions == === Search === * Serbian-language wikis have been updated with a new language analyzer for search that does some stemming (so that related forms of a word can find each other) and handles the transliteration between the Serbian Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, which are both used in Serbian. [1] *...and work on the plugin and re-indexing the wikis to allow the new Serbian alphabets to be used is also done [2] [3] [4] * Stas fixed some bugs for deep category search [5] [6] * Completion search for Lexemes merged [7] * Fixed some indexing errors [8] * Cirrus profile management has been updated to provide a standard way to override profile content [9] * Fixed issues with ElasticSearch latency alerts on ~15 wikis that had the issue [10] [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192458 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_language#Writing_system [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189239 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183015 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189265 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192270 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188350 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190970 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192609 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191876 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191236 --- Subscribe to receive on-wiki (or opt-in email) notifications of the Discovery weekly update. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Discovery_Weekly The archive of all 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 Wikimedia Foundation