Discovery/Status updates/2016-10-17
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This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-10-17
Discussions
- Added a Request for Comment (RfC) on refactoring Kartotherian to use an established plugin system
- Added more information in order to estimate the hardware requirements for ordering new servers for Elasticsearch
- Had a discussion about needing variant options for Chinese in Language Settings
- Discussed the preliminary results on running Paulscore with BM25 on zh, ja, th
- Started the discussion on the roll out plan/path for Maps
- Added a Request for Comment (RfC) on <maplink> support for link text vs fullscreen caption text
Search
[edit]- Enable sub-phrase completion suggester on wikitech, mediawiki.org and wikisource
- Enable document versioning support via wikimedia-extra extension in production
- Remove custom analysis chains from vagrant
- Map modifier letter apostrophes to straight or curly quotes in the French Elasticsearch analysis chain
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
- Integrate "did you mean" data collection into search satisfaction schema
- Improve processing of the apostrophe by the search engine in Ukrainian
- Enable Latvian and Lithuanian analyzers
- CirrusSearch SQL query for locating pages for reindex performs poorly
- MySQL chooses poor query plan for link counting query
- When showing search results for different language, exclude images from Commons
Analysis
[edit]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)
Portal
[edit]Portal updates that need code review - PLEASE HELP:
Interactive
[edit]- Implement static kartotherian service with geojson layer
- Document how to use maps directly from JavaScript
- Maplinks external groups are applied multiples times
- Perpetration for depreciating <slippymap> is done thanks to RolandUnger, who handled updating most of the templates
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
- Coordinates do not fit in the detail box on one line
- Wikivoyage groups incorrectly show external layers
- Opening VisualEditor on en.wp always loads Mapbox
- Maplink breaks when showing undefined groups
Other Noteworthy Stuff
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