This is the weekly update for the week starting '''2017-10-16'''
==Highlights==
* Wikidata Query Service had a partial outage on 18 Oct 2017: a single
client started to run an unusually high number of queries on WDQS and the
overload was not prevented by our current throttling nor was it
automatically detected and isolated—detailed information is on the mailing
list. [0]
* Discovery and Legal chatted on Oct 18 about supporting only CC0 data in
the .map data namespace on Commons, in response to a community
conversation; a detailed response will be prepared and released next week.
[1] [2]
==Discussions==
=== Search ===
* We added more namespaces to the search results for Bengali Wikisource
(Special:Search—add) [3]
* David fixed an issue where users couldn't click on svwikisource search
results when running a crosswiki search on svwiki; this will be in
production during the week of Oct 24th [4]
* David was also working on finishing up deployment-prep elasticsearch
cluster to 5.5.x [5]
* David launched the A/B test for testing the relaxing of the retrieval
query filter using two different configurations (the test is expected to
last a week) [6]
* We wrapped up a series of adding content namespaces to wikis that were
accidentally excluded from the default results of Special:Search (thanks to
TheDJ for discovering this bug and to David for his quick fixing of the
issues once the community consultation was completed by Chris K) [7]
* Erik deployed a fix for when the rebuildtextindex fails when searchindex
on InnoDB (no support for MyISAM) and it went into production on Oct 19 [8]
=== Analysis ===
* Mikhail finished up tasks related to establishing the baseline of metrics
for SDoC—looking at querying databases [9]
=== Portal ===
* The
Wikipedia.org portal page stats and translations were updated on Oct
19, 2017 [10] [11]
=== Maps ===
* MaxSem and Gehel fixed a weird bug where tileshell wasn't exiting after
after being notified of updates, effectively stopping the OSM data in
production from being regenerated; data updates are now back and running
once a day [12]
[0]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2017-October/011280.html
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Proposal_…
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154071
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178041
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177913
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178413
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177502
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170473
[8]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177477
[9]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177356
[10]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546
[11]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142582
[12]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177389
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deb tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation