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