Hello,
Here is the Discovery status update for the week starting 17 October.
Feedback and questions are welcome.
== Discussions ==
* Added a Request for Comment (RfC) on refactoring Kartotherian to use an
established plugin system [0]
* Added more information in order to estimate the hardware requirements for
ordering new servers for Elasticsearch [1]
* Had a discussion about needing variant options for Chinese in Language
Settings [2]
* Discussed the preliminary results on running Paulscore with BM25 on zh,
ja, th [3]
* Started the discussion on the roll out plan/path for Maps [4]
* Added a Request for Comment (RfC) on <maplink> support for link text vs
fullscreen caption text [5]
=== Search ===
* Enable sub-phrase completion suggester on wikitech,
mediawiki.org and
wikisource [6]
* Enable document versioning support via wikimedia-extra extension in
production [7]
* Remove custom analysis chains from vagrant [8]
* Map modifier letter apostrophes to straight or curly quotes in the French
Elasticsearch analysis chain [9]
Search tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be
deployed: Oct 25, 2016:
* Put SITENAME in search box placeholder "searchsuggest-search" like in
MobileFrontend's "mobile-frontend-placeholder [10]
* Integrate "did you mean" data collection into search satisfaction schema
[11]
* Improve processing of the apostrophe by the search engine in Ukrainian
[12]
* Enable Latvian and Lithuanian analyzers [13]
* CirrusSearch SQL query for locating pages for reindex performs poorly [14]
* MySQL chooses poor query plan for link counting query [15]
* When showing search results for different language, exclude images from
Commons [16]
=== Analysis ===
Analysis tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to
be deployed: Oct 25, 2016:
* Add a PaulScore approximation to
discovery.wmflabs.org (waiting on
phab:T138087 to be deployed on the train) [17] [18]
=== Portal ===
Portal updates that need code review - PLEASE HELP:
* update logo for new branding guidelines [19]
* add information for Wikipedia / Wikimedia apps availability [20]
=== Interactive ===
* Implement static kartotherian service with geojson layer [21]
* Document how to use maps directly from JavaScript [22]
* Maplinks external groups are applied multiples times [23]
* Perpetration for depreciating <slippymap> is done thanks to RolandUnger,
who handled updating most of the templates [24]
Interactive tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order
to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016:
* Enable double-click zooming in full screen mode [25]
* Coordinates do not fit in the detail box on one line [26]
* Wikivoyage groups incorrectly show external layers [27]
* Opening VisualEditor on en.wp always loads Mapbox [28]
* Maplink breaks when showing undefined groups [29]
== Other Noteworthy Stuff ==
* Decommissioned deployment-elastic08.deployment-prep.eqiad.wmflabs [30]
[0]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148605
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148559
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134967
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147501
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148666
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148706
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146208
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146210
[8]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147502
[9]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146804
[10]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144640
[11]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138087
[12]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146358
[13]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148052
[14]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147957
[15]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143932
[16]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145628
[17]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144424
[18]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138087
[19]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144834
[20]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137495
[21]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124134
[22]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138054
[23]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148687
[24]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136768
[25]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148671
[26]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147943
[27]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148346
[28]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148511
[29]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148810
[30]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147777
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The full update, and archive of 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