Hello everyone,
Here's the weekly update for Discovery and the last update in June. Can you
believe it‽
As always, feedback and questions are welcome.
==Discussions==
=== Search ===
* Evaluated several training set sizes for the learning-to-rank models [0]
* Completed several successful load tests on the servers for
learning-to-rank query plugin [1]
* Fixed a bug with second try searching using language detection [2]
* Updated CirrusSearch to not depend on spaces to activate proximity
rescoring (phrase rescore) [3]
* Explore similar pages, categories and languages A/B test was activated on
June 29, 2017 [4]
=== Analysis ===
* Updated the dashboards polloi package that now allows country names and
assigning of ASCII region names [5]
=== Portal ===
* Statistics and translations were updated on the
Wikipedia.org portal page
on June 27, 2017 [6] [7]
=== Interactive ===
* A bug where coordinates were being passed incorrectly to external map
services was fixed in production [8]
* Discussion and a patch uploaded to update Kartographer so that jQuery 3
doesn't break things [9]
[0]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168664
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169002
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168302
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152094
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149809
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167913
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142582
[8]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160782
[9]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168744
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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
Wikimedia Foundation