Hello,
This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week
starting 2018-01-08.
== Highlights==
* Latvian and Arabic Wikipedia's enabled mapframe on their respective
wiki's (completed by community volunteers) [0] [1]
== Discussions ==
=== Search ===
* David tuned the wikidata fulltext search similarity parameters [2]
* Stas fixed an issue with the IDs option in forceSearchIndex.php is broken
[3]
* Trey finished his initial analysis of phonetic algorithms available in
Elasticsearch. [4]
=== Portal ===
* The portal's stats and translations were updated on January 8, 2018 via
our mostly automated process [5] [6]
* Jan updated "liguru" to "lìgure" on the Wikipedia portal [7]
== Did you know? ==
* Last October, the President of Kazakhstan announced that the country
would switch from the Cyrillic to Latin alphabet.[8] As a result, over the
course of about 100 years, the writing system for Kazakh will have changed
from Arabic to Latin to Cyrillic and back to Latin. Several Turkic
languages[9] spoken in former Soviet Republics have gone through similar
shifts, including Azerbaijani,[10] Turkmen,[11] and Uzbek [12]—with the
most recent shift to Latin for some beginning in the 1990s. Thus some
speakers of those languages lived through all three changes to their
official writing system.
== FY 2017-18 Q3 (Jan-Mar) goals ==
This status was last updated 2018-01-08. [13]
[0]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183981
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183764
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182293
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183197
[4]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Overview_of_Phonetic…
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142582
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180772
[8]
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Kazakhstan:_President_Nazarbayev_signs_decree_…
[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_languages
[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijani_alphabet
[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmen_alphabet
[12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbek_alphabet
[13]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2018-01-08#FY_2017-…
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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