Hello, This is the Discovery update for last week. Apologies for the
delay in getting it out.
== Discussions ==
=== Search ===
* Created a method for the Kafka consumer to take 'learn to rank'
queries from a queue and run them against ElasticSearch to generate
relevance labels [0]
* Added in the ability to use kafka in our LTRank feature generation
queries and pushing them into ElasticSearch for analysis [1]
* Added ability to extract TF and IDF based features in the
ElasticSearch 'learning to rank' plugin [2]
* A/B test still in progress 'explore similar' links, but we're
running into a few bugs that will be sorted out next week [3]
* Fixed a bug where searching for phrase queries did not highlight
page content [4]
=== Analysis ===
* Fixed a bug with the sister project snippets and eventlogging [5]
* Finished up analysis for determining what is a reasonable per-IP
ratelimit for maps [6]
* Fixed a minor dashboard bug (splines) [7]
[0]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162059
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162072
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167437
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164856
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167798
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168916
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169175
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169125
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation