Greetings,
Quite a few updates from across Discovery this week. As always, feedback and suggestions welcome.
== Highlights ==
* Our wikis now implement the Open Graph standard, so sharing links on social media now include the appropriate imagery. Thanks to Ladsgroup for this work! [0] [1] [2]
* For those interested in how we test changes to search, there's now a page on Testing Search.[3]
* Requested more text to be translated on the
wikipedia.org portal page via translatewiki. [4]
* "Hiring a data scientist", a post on Wikimedia Blog that provides an in-depth look into Discovery's hiring process for the Analysis team. [5]
== Discussions ==
=== Search ===
* Work continues to upgrade to Elasticsearch 5 [6] [7]
* A lot of work on TextCat (language identification) has been deployed; configuration to enable it in production should go out next week. [8] [9]
* Added document content model into the search index and contentmodel: keyword. [10] [11]
* Added more aliases for filetype: keyword [12]
* Nearly done with getting things ready for a new A/B test to be launched on a few wikipedias for sister project search results [13] [14]
* Fixed a timeout issue with advanced searches [15] [16] (not yet deployed, will be deployed with Elasticsearch 5 upgrade)
* Delayed updates from previous weeks:
** Created a list of languages for which we want to investigate analysers [17]
** After analysis, decided to use Stempel as our new Polish language analyser [18]; analysis of Stempel is underway [19]
** Fixed issue with ICU folding that caused problems with the search index [20] [21]
=== Analysis ===
* Wrapping up migrating a significant amount of data using the ReportUpdater infrastructure - almost done! Updating dashboards now to use the new datasets, including NEW datasets (like LDF endpoint usage for WDQS) [22]
=== Portal ===
* Added new text to translatewiki for
wikipedia.org portal page for app links and legal language in footer [23] [24]
=== Other Noteworthy Stuff ===
* San Francisco by Maxime Le Forestier [25] [26]