[MediaWiki-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2017-02-27

Hello, This is the weekly update for the week starting 2017-02-27 and includes work up till 2017-03-13 due to a scheduling error. Apologies for the confusion. == Highlights == *Jan demo'd a new "explore similar" widget during this month's CREDIT showcase [0] == Discussions == * Posted on French, Arabic, German and Russian Wikipedia Village Pumps to ask if there are any issues with A/B testing the sister project search results on them. [1] === Search === * Finished analysis of potential new Chinese-language analyzers. See T158203. We expect improved word segmentation accuracy, which should lead to better search results, as well as support for searching across Traditional/Simplified character sets. A test index in labs will be available soon. [2] * Elasticsearch 5 upgrade in progress: the beta cluster is now running the new version. Upgrade of production clusters will start next week. === Analysis === * Recap of the migration to ReportUpdater and more! [3] * Analysis of the A/B test for displaying sister projects in search results is ongoing [4] ===Portal === * Portal statistics were updated. [5] * Fix released for bad caching of error page on portal - to be released next week. [6] * Worked on a few small fixes for the portal to include a few edits on RTL language display on the portal - to be released next week. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEGlXIKUXD8 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154525#3091063 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158203 [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2017-March/001454.html [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156300 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158782#3064105 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129771 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154349 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158809 ---- 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 - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation