Hello again, Here is the Discovery department's weekly status update for the week starting 04 April.
* CirrusSearch now uses HTTPS for communication between Mediawiki and the Elasticsearch backend. This both increases the privacy of Wikipedia users and helps ensure that we can continue to serve our content even with a major failure of our main datacenter.
* April 6, 2016 CREDIT Showcase[edit | edit source] Watch the whole thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guwVwTRAVsQ or jump to specific parts:
** Guillaume gives an overview of SonarQube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guwVwTRAVsQ. ** Max gives an overview if his work to compare diff algorithms in MediaWiki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guwVwTRAVsQ&t=4m45s. ** Trey gives an update on new functionality in Relevance Forge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guwVwTRAVsQ&t=11m12s. ** Yuri shows some work he did at the recent Hackathon to store structured data on Wiki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guwVwTRAVsQ&t=19m35s, and consuming it from Graphs. **More links and Q&A on the CREDIT etherpad https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT.
Feedback and suggestions on this weekly update are welcome.
The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on Mediawiki.org:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates
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