Hi again, This is the Discovery weekly update for 2017-08-14. As always, feedback and questions are welcome.

== Highlights == * A portion of the Search and Discovery teams attended the 2 day Hackathon and 3 day Wikimania held in Montreal, Canada.

== Discussions ==

=== Search === * With some judicious use of thermal paste, we are no longer experiencing overheating of the ElasticSearch servers in eqiad [0] * Interleaved search results A/B test was turned on Aug 7th, data was checked to be good and then turned off on Aug 16. with analysis to follow [1] [2] [3] [4] * With David's and Erik's help, enwiki now has their sister project snippets in a defined order—starting with Wiktionary and ending with Wikibooks (as search results are available). This was enabled on Aug 16, 2017; all other wikis use the default sorting (by recall) for the ordering of sister project snippets on the search results page. [5] * A search relevance MVP test to gather feedback from real humans was turned on Aug 8, 2017 and will be turned off on Aug 17, 2017 and has early analysis in the comments section of the epic ticket. [6] [7] [8]

=== Wikidata Query Service === * Throttling has been enabled on Wikidata Query Service. This is done to protect the service from abusive users or bots. WDQS will answer with HTTP 429 if a query is throttled, and will expose a "Retry-After" header to let you know how much you should wait before retrying a query. The goal is to protect the service, not to restrict user access, so reach out to us if you feel that you are being throttled unfairly. [9]. * Stas added a stats marker to wikidata entity search [10]

=== Analysis === * Mikhail has been helping WMDE with figuring out which namespace combinations are used for searching [11] * Chelsy fixed a search metrics bug on the dashboard that is used for user engagement [12] * Chelsy updated and annotated the sample rate change on the search dashboard [13] * Chelsy also updated the search dashboard for the Paulscore calculation that was summing duplicated clicks on the same position [14]

=== Maps === * A community volunteer, TheDJ, fixed a bug in maps where when a user scrolls, the map detail pane will display incorrect coordinates (greater than 180°) [15]

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168816 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171212 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171213 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171214 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171215 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171803 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171741 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171742 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171740 [9] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088587.html [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172422 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165492 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170469 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172428 [14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172960 [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171399 ---

The archive of all 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 Wikimedia Foundation