Here is the Discovery status update for the week starting 24 October. Feedback and questions are welcome.
* Show globe icon 🌐 next to all <maplinks> links [0]
* Request for Comment - All map location names should be shown in the user's language [1]
* Merge Kartographer with commons-on-osm [2]
* Discussion and recommendations for the overall usability of the new search engine results page with the Design team [3]
== Search ==
* Don't show the "results from other projects" box if empty [4]
* Check to see if popularity_score is wrong in a lot of articles [5]
* Disable highlighting on insource queries if experimental highlighter in not turned on [6]
* Reindex search cluster for BM25 test [7]
* Search works incorrectly when the query contains words used as namespace names and a colon (:) [8]
* ask for translations for 'showing results from' (Polish, Dutch, Arabic and Chinese) [9]
* Configure varnish to include wdqs nodes in codfw [10]
* Started second BM25 A/B test (ja, zh, th) [11]
* Turn on second BM25 test [12]
* Fix in_array() expects parameter 2 to be an array or collection in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.28.0-wmf.22/extensions/CirrusSearch/includes/Search/RescoreBuilders.php on line 160 [13]
* Communicate to community the upcoming BM25 release [14]
* [Recurring task] CirrusSearch: what is updated during re-indexing [15]
* Review and fix the description of autocomplete profiles (completion suggester) in the Search preference tab [16]
* Enable cross-wiki backend search functionality on it.wikipedia - we made it faster [17]
* Enable GC (garbage collection) logs on Elasticsearch JVM [18]
* Argument 2 passed to SearchEngine::processCompletionResults() must be an instance of SearchSuggestionSet, Elastica\Response in SearchEngine class [19]
* [bug] cirrussearch fatal in 1.28.0-wmf.23 - [20]
== Analysis ==
* Compare ZRR for query features across other search engines [21]
* Investigate what we'd need to do to ignore double quotes in search queries [22]
* Maps Dashboard: fix and update [23]
* Analyze the variance of user-agent's, country, and other useful metrics of google referred traffic with and without a search query available in referrer [24]
== Portal ==
'''''Portal updates that got code reviews after rebasing - thanks! '''''
* update logo for new branding guidelines [26]
* add information for Wikipedia / Wikimedia apps availability [27]
== Interactive ==
* Deprecate <slippymap> provided by MapSources in favor of Kartographer's <mapframe> [28]
* Illegal and unheralded removal of MapSourcesHooks::wfgeoLink function hook on dewikivoyage [29]
* More details button should appear when map is loaded [30]
* maps1002 does not run latest kartotherian [31]
* Snapshot service not working with empty groups param [32]
* Kartographer no longer displays external data credits [33]
* Graph behaves differently on PHP7 - was fixed automagically [34]
* <mapframe>/<maplink>: Invalid GeoJSON code in wgKartographerLiveData prevents drawing of maps at Wikivoyage [35]
* Don't pollute history with map hashes [36]
* Fix Governor's demo - party affiliations (needed a fix with WDQS SPARQL query - thanks, Stas!) [37]
* Show wikidata query results as map markers [38]
* Support geomask externaldata in Kartotherian [39]
* Geoshape service should return map mask polygon with holes [40]
'''''Interactive tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Nov 1, 2016:'''''
* Use maps snapshot service until user interacts (click/mouseover?) [41]
* Geoshape service should return map mask polygon with holes [42]
* Show preview with static maps is broken [43]
* [Bug] GeoData\Searcher fatal error in 1.28-wmf.23 [44]
* Support data.get() with optional language param [45]
* Remove static background from mapframes after going dynamic [46]
== Interactive Ops Tasks ==
* Maps - move traffic to eqiad instead of codfw [48]
* Configure new maps servers in eqiad [49]
* Unmet dependencies around postgis apt packages on maps* servers [50]
* increase replication factor for system_auth keyspace on maps / cassandra [51]
* Upgrade PostGIS on maps servers to version 2.2+ [52]
* Maps-test was created with incorrect initial encoding [53]
* Update Node on Maps to v4.6.0 [54]
* elastic2020 is powered off and does not want to restart [55]
* Maps - error when doing initial tiles generation: "Error: could not create converter for SQL_ASCII"" [56]