Hello again, This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the weeks starting 2018-07-02 and 2018-07-09.

Programming Note: With the Wikimania Hackathon, Wikimania proper, and resulting travel for folks in coming weeks, the next update will be for the week starting 2018-07-30.

As always, feedback and questions welcome.

== Discussions ==

=== Search === * David and Stas worked on fine tuning of search configs to mediawiki-config for Wikidata [0] * Stas and Addshore helped to catch and clean up some bad lookups and report them properly [1] * A "Wrong document type" error was corrected by Erik by fixing Sanitizer MetaStore integration [2] * Erik worked on tracking queries that run on the Elastic Search clusters longer than both server side and client side timeouts by fixing some slow logging functionality [3] * There was a Meta-wiki error where search suggests non-existent title due to namespace/redirect mixup. Erik's note: "it's a bit awkward, but typing Help:Glo into autocomplete on metawiki suggests 'Global Account' from the main namespace, and selecting it takes you to Help:Unified login" [4] * In order to dispatch queries to a particular search setup (cirrus defaults vs wikibase custom query builder), David created a flexible way to classify queries, meant to replace the 'getSyntaxUsed' approach currently in SearchContext. [5] * Trey and a community volunteer, Athena, created a basic Mirandese analysis chain. It was tested on RelForge and pushed into production this week [6]. Trey kicked off, completed and tested the re-indexing of the Mirandese Wikis [7]. * The Re-Re-Index of the Serbian Wikis after refactored plugins were deployed has been completed [8] and the re-index of the Croatian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bosnian Wikis was also done [9] * We currently mix a tiny number of namespace documents into the regular indices, which seems inefficient; so Erik built a unified namespace index [10] * Erik updated the 'OtherIndex' to operate on a cluster other than the one holding the wiki [11] * Trey updated a variety of things on the Analysis Tools with lots little fixes and improvements as well as a few small errors in the analysis code that conflated post-analysis types and pre-analysis types [12]

== Did you know? == * The period of this status update includes Friday, July 13, 2018. The fear of the number thirteen is called "triskaidekaphobia" [13]. There are two words for fear of Friday the 13th: "paraskavedekatriaphobia" [14] and "friggatriskaidekaphobia" [15]—the first maintains a consistent etymology with the Greek word for Friday, "Paraskeví", while the second invokes "Frigg", the Norse Goddess after whom Friday is named in English.

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182717 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198091 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197446 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196180 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115756 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197774 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194941 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197890 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196404 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196658 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192699 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194678 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199273 [13] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/triskaidekaphobia [14] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paraskavedekatriaphobia [15] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/friggatriskaidekaphobia

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Yours, Chris Koerner Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation