Discovery/Status updates/2017-06-26

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2017-06-26

Discussions

Search

• Evaluated several training set sizes for the learning-to-rank models (task T168664)
• Completed several successful load tests on the servers for learning-to-rank query plugin (task T169002)
• Fixed a bug with second try searching using language detection (task T168302)
• Updated CirrusSearch to not depend on spaces to activate proximity rescoring (phrase rescore) (task T152094)
• Explore similar pages, categories and languages A/B test was activated on June 29, 2017 (task T149809)

Analysis

• Updated the dashboards polloi package that now allows country names and assigning of ASCII region names (task T167913)

Portal

• Statistics (task T128546) and translations (task T142582) were updated on the Wikipedia.org portal page on June 27, 2017

Interactive

• A bug where coordinates were being passed incorrectly to external map services was fixed in production (task T160782)
• Discussion and a patch uploaded to update Kartographer so that jQuery 3 doesn't break things (task T168744)

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