Hello, Here is the Discovery status update for the week starting 07 November. Feedback and questions are welcome. ==Highlights== * Many older search tickets that were in the backlog were resolved this week - due to work being completed previously. ==Discussions== * Opened a discussion with the Wikipedia Ambassadors community requesting volunteer wikis that want to be part of upcoming A/B tests for cross-wiki search results. [0] === Search === * Double suggestion when searching on wikipedia with limit/offset [1] * EPIC: Review current ElasticSearch configuration, and use relevance lab to run tests to optimise the configuration to improve search result relevance [2] * CirrusSearch should do something helpful if the search does not return enough results [3] * CirrusSearch: No highlighted text returned from `intitle:` phrase searches [4] * Improve searches on poor spellings [5] * Add extra breakdowns to dashboards, e.g. by country, by language [6] * CirrusSearch: More search results when narrowing down search term [7] * "San Lorenzo (quartiere di Napoli)" not first match when searching the words in different order [8] * Implement a new fulltext query [9] * Poorly tuned rankings [10] * opensearch: Querying for "Big" or "Big!" should include "Big" or "Big!" as first suggestion [11] * "Ignoring nonexistent page" that does exist [12] '''Search tickets to be released in next week's train:''' * Options for Completion Suggester misaligned when description uses more than one line [13] * Image search by file size - will be live when Commons is reindexed [14] === Analysis === * Verified data pipeline for BM25 AB test - ja, zh, th [15] * [Dashboard][Search] Make monthly metrics module work again [16] * Investigate if Interactive logging schema makes sense [17] === Portal === * ''crickets while waiting for code reviews'' === Interactive === * <maplink> does not work in Monobook skin [18] * <maplink> does not work on "Modern" skin [19] * Maps "align" attribute definitions, review and fix [20] '''Interactive tickets to be released in next week's train:''' * Full screen map does not hide sidebar in "Cologne Blue" skin [21] === Interactive Ops === * Ensure Postgres maps have proper indexes [22] == Other Noteworthy Stuff == * Guys in bouncing pink suits [23] [0] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2016-November/00… [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149269 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125603 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55799 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94874 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1240 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102896 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103289 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138996 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128073 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134340 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60309 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69869 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149982 [14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78490 [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147496 [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149752 [17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149838 [18] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145521 [19] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150148 [20] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150063 [21] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150149 [22] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138277 [23] http://i.imgur.com/sd15NVu.gifv ---- 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