Hello,
Here is the Discovery weekly update for 2017-10-02. As always,
feedback and questions are welcome.
*Programing note*: Due to the US holiday there will be no status
update for the week of 20 November. Updates will resume the week of 27
November.
== Highlights ==
* There is a survey on French Wikipedia asking if they should replace
static maps with dynamic maps and to define best practices. [0]
* An update on the Discovery team and projects was shared [1]
== Discussions ==
=== Search ===
* Erik did quite a bit of research into whether we should expand the
rescore windows for learning to rank — it was decided it wouldn't be
helpful [2]
* David fixed a bug where the JobQueue was trying to report update
metrics when response was not valid [3]
* Gehel paid down some technical debt by creating a dedicated elastic
component in the APT repository — which will help get the next upgrade
more smoothly [4]
* Stas fixed bug where removed Wikidata description was still showing
when searching [5]
=== Analysis ===
* Mikhail provided analysis of external & internal WDQS traffic as
preparation for sizing of internal WDQS cluster. [6]
=== WDQS ===
* Stas reloaded WDQS database to enable external links and performance
improvements [7]
[0]
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Sondage/Remplacement_des_carte…
[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2017-November/001601.html
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162369
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180298
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179964
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180382
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179850
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176593
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[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R
[2]
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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation