Hello again,
This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the weeks
starting 2018-07-02 and 2018-07-09.
Programming Note: With the Wikimania Hackathon, Wikimania proper, and
resulting travel for folks in coming weeks, the next update will be
for the week starting 2018-07-30.
As always, feedback and questions welcome.
== Discussions ==
=== Search ===
* David and Stas worked on fine tuning of search configs to
mediawiki-config for Wikidata [0]
* Stas and Addshore helped to catch and clean up some bad lookups and
report them properly [1]
* A "Wrong document type" error was corrected by Erik by fixing
Sanitizer MetaStore integration [2]
* Erik worked on tracking queries that run on the Elastic Search
clusters longer than both server side and client side timeouts by
fixing some slow logging functionality [3]
* There was a Meta-wiki error where search suggests non-existent title
due to namespace/redirect mixup. Erik's note: "it's a bit awkward, but
typing Help:Glo into autocomplete on metawiki suggests 'Global
Account' from the main namespace, and selecting it takes you to
Help:Unified login" [4]
* In order to dispatch queries to a particular search setup (cirrus
defaults vs wikibase custom query builder), David created a flexible
way to classify queries, meant to replace the 'getSyntaxUsed' approach
currently in SearchContext. [5]
* Trey and a community volunteer, Athena, created a basic Mirandese
analysis chain. It was tested on RelForge and pushed into production
this week [6]. Trey kicked off, completed and tested the re-indexing
of the Mirandese Wikis [7].
* The Re-Re-Index of the Serbian Wikis after refactored plugins were
deployed has been completed [8] and the re-index of the Croatian,
Serbo-Croatian, and Bosnian Wikis was also done [9]
* We currently mix a tiny number of namespace documents into the
regular indices, which seems inefficient; so Erik built a unified
namespace index [10]
* Erik updated the 'OtherIndex' to operate on a cluster other than the
one holding the wiki [11]
* Trey updated a variety of things on the Analysis Tools with lots
little fixes and improvements as well as a few small errors in the
analysis code that conflated post-analysis types and pre-analysis
types [12]
== Did you know? ==
* The period of this status update includes Friday, July 13, 2018. The
fear of the number thirteen is called "triskaidekaphobia" [13]. There
are two words for fear of Friday the 13th: "paraskavedekatriaphobia"
[14] and "friggatriskaidekaphobia" [15]—the first maintains a
consistent etymology with the Greek word for Friday, "ParaskevĂ",
while the second invokes "Frigg", the Norse Goddess after whom Friday
is named in English.
[0]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182717
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198091
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197446
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196180
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115756
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197774
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194941
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197890
[8]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196404
[9]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196658
[10]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192699
[11]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194678
[12]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199273
[13]
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/triskaidekaphobia
[14]
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paraskavedekatriaphobia
[15]
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/friggatriskaidekaphobia
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[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation