Hello, Another weekly update from the Search Platform team at the Wikimedia Foundation. If you have feedback or questions, please let me know.

== Discussions ==

=== Search === * There was a small issue with increasing the ltr.cache.max_size in Cirrus elasticsearch clusters which has now been solved and the servers have been restarted and we're getting consistent performance again [0] * Wikidata full text search patches merged, look for the new search next week! * Trey wrote blog post on supporting multi-script languages. [1]

=== WDQS ===

* We finally tracked down issues on wdqs1004 which has been down for almost 2 weeks [2]. It looks like a decommissioned server was trying to steal its IP address. The problem has been fixed and WDQS cluster is again at full capacity. * Moved polling back from Kafka to RecentChanges due to MirrorMaker issues. Will switch back after issues [3] are resolved.

=== Portal === * We are moving some things around (minor stuff) but the build / update didn't happen this week as normal; weekly updates will resume soon. [4]

== Did you know? == * Etymologically, the "emo-" part of "emoticon" and "emoji" are not related. "Emoticon" is a blend of the English words "emotion" and "icon," [5] while "emoji" is a combination of "e" (picture/illustration) and "moji" (letter) in Japanese. [6]

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188015 [1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/12/supporting-languages-multiple-writing-... [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188045 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189464 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180777 [5] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emoticon#English [6] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emoji#English

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Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation