Hello, Here is the Discovery status update for the week starting 17 October. Feedback and questions are welcome.

== Discussions == * Added a Request for Comment (RfC) on refactoring Kartotherian to use an established plugin system [0] * Added more information in order to estimate the hardware requirements for ordering new servers for Elasticsearch [1] * Had a discussion about needing variant options for Chinese in Language Settings [2] * Discussed the preliminary results on running Paulscore with BM25 on zh, ja, th [3] * Started the discussion on the roll out plan/path for Maps [4] * Added a Request for Comment (RfC) on <maplink> support for link text vs fullscreen caption text [5]

=== Search === * Enable sub-phrase completion suggester on wikitech, mediawiki.org and wikisource [6] * Enable document versioning support via wikimedia-extra extension in production [7] * Remove custom analysis chains from vagrant [8] * Map modifier letter apostrophes to straight or curly quotes in the French Elasticsearch analysis chain [9]

Search tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016:

* Put SITENAME in search box placeholder "searchsuggest-search" like in MobileFrontend's "mobile-frontend-placeholder [10] * Integrate "did you mean" data collection into search satisfaction schema [11] * Improve processing of the apostrophe by the search engine in Ukrainian [12] * Enable Latvian and Lithuanian analyzers [13] * CirrusSearch SQL query for locating pages for reindex performs poorly [14] * MySQL chooses poor query plan for link counting query [15] * When showing search results for different language, exclude images from Commons [16]

=== Analysis === Analysis tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016:

* Add a PaulScore approximation to discovery.wmflabs.org (waiting on phab:T138087 to be deployed on the train) [17] [18]

=== Portal === Portal updates that need code review - PLEASE HELP:

* update logo for new branding guidelines [19] * add information for Wikipedia / Wikimedia apps availability [20]

=== Interactive === * Implement static kartotherian service with geojson layer [21] * Document how to use maps directly from JavaScript [22] * Maplinks external groups are applied multiples times [23] * Perpetration for depreciating <slippymap> is done thanks to RolandUnger, who handled updating most of the templates [24]

Interactive tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016:

* Enable double-click zooming in full screen mode [25] * Coordinates do not fit in the detail box on one line [26] * Wikivoyage groups incorrectly show external layers [27] * Opening VisualEditor on en.wp always loads Mapbox [28] * Maplink breaks when showing undefined groups [29]

== Other Noteworthy Stuff == * Decommissioned deployment-elastic08.deployment-prep.eqiad.wmflabs [30]

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148605 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148559 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134967 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147501 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148666 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148706 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146208 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146210 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147502 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146804 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144640 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138087 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146358 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148052 [14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147957 [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143932 [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145628 [17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144424 [18] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138087 [19] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144834 [20] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137495 [21] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124134 [22] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138054 [23] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148687 [24] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136768 [25] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148671 [26] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147943 [27] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148346 [28] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148511 [29] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148810 [30] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147777

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The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on MediaWiki.org:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as Easy or Volunteer needed in Phabricator.

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R

Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation