Hello,
This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week
starting 2019-06-10.
As always, feedback and questions are welcome.
== Discussions ==
=== Search ===
* Trey has finished his first analysis of a proposal to strip
diacritics in Slovak for searching. Slovak searchers don't always use
them, but removing them causes new problems for stemming. Read more on
MediaWiki or Phabricator —and join the discussion if you speak Slovak!
[0] [1]
* Mathew worked on creating a Cookbook to restart WDQS after applying
updates or doing a deployment [2]
* The team worked with Analytics to port usage of
mediawiki_CirrusSearchRequestSet to mediawiki_cirrussearch_request [3]
* When a new item is created, we have functionality to instant-index
it synchronously, even if with partial information, so it appears
quickly in the index - Stas worked on getting the un-redirected items
to be instant-indexed [4]
* CirrusSearch\SearcherTest::testSearchText PHPUnit tests take a long
time to run and is slowing down change processing in CI - David helped
to make it faster [5]
* It is currently not possible to evaluate all items without labels,
so we investigated adding haslabel:all and determined that matching an
_all field and a descriptions_all field worked well [6]
* We removed old settings ($wgLexemeUseCirrus and
$wgLexemeDisableCirrus) as they were both set to true for production
(no longer applicable / out of date) [7]
* David fixed an issue where suggested article are no longer shown,
API Usage for the morelike search endpoint has dropped since train
deploy of 1.34.0-wmf.7 -- by accident. [8]
* Geodata not being returned for some files - David merged in a few
patches to be sure that we don't lose CoordinatesOutput when multiple
slots are available [9]
* An old request to fix where Special:Search doesn't use labels and
descriptions for suggestions but just the item ID was worked on by
Stas and was enabled [10]
* A PHP notice in MW-Vagrant when searching with CirrusSearch was
happening in the action API and web serach interface. Thanks for
fixing it, Ottomata!
[0]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Folding_Diacritics_i…
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223787#5260102
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221832
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222268
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206256
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225184
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224611
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225183
[8]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224879
[9]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223767
[10]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55652
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[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R
Yours,
Chris Koerner (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation