- Trey also reviewed, updated and manually re-built the Hebmorph plugin
for ElasticSearch 6 with help from the rest of the Search team [1]
Not quite! We have to give *David* all the credit for updating and rebuilding the Hebmorph plugin. I just ran a regression test to make sure nothing too weird happened when using the new version. (It was only 0.002%-0.003% weirder than expected, which is acceptable.)
—Trey
Trey Jones Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation
On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 4:34 PM Chris Koerner ckoerner@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello, This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week starting 2019-01-21 (acknowledging a little delay).
As always, feedback and questions welcome.
== Discussions ==
=== Search ===
- Trey did a write up about his ideas for the wrong keyboard
implementation and UI, and the new language models and parameter optimization for TextCat for the wrong-keyboard and wrong-encoding detection. [0]
- Trey also reviewed, updated and manually re-built the Hebmorph
plugin for ElasticSearch 6 with help from the rest of the Search team [1]
- David double checked that chi to psi/omega indices are no longer
used and delete them. [2]
- David also worked on dropping the "archive" type in the general index [3]
- David wrapped up on moving the phrase suggest related code to its
FallbackMethod [4]
- Erik worked on modifying Wikidata entity completion search for
per-language tuning parameters [5]
- Erik also worked on a bug where we didn't retain cross-cluster
identifier in OtherIndexes [6]
- Erik fulfilled a feature request to add chronological sorting
by-page-creation-timestamp for search results [7]
- David also upgraded the Elasticsearch plugins extra, extra-analysis
and highlighter to elasticsearch 6.5.4 [8]
- Stas is working on separating ElasticSearch parts of Wikibase into a
separate extension [9]
[0] [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Implementation_Design... [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214439 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214052 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200198 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213098 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213106 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214050 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195071 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214312 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190022
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