Discovery/Status updates/2017-09-04

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2017-09-04

==Discussions== Discussions
 * Paul conducted a cartographic review of the new map styles for the Design team on 6 Sep 2017.

Search

 * Gehel updated logstash to stop deploying custom elasticsearch plugins that are no longer used and did a rolling restart of elasticsearch/logstash
 * David upgraded an extra plugin as part of the upgrade to elastic 5.5.x
 * Erik turned on a third test for the Search Relevance Survey (graded by humans), the test is expected to take a week.
 * Erik trained MLR models for all wikis with >= 1% of search traffic, in preparation for AB test next week
 * Erik investigating potential memory leaks in MLR model training which makes training for large wikis (de, en) error prone

Portal

 * Jan fixed a bug where the typeahead wasn't working for a single character
 * Jan also updated the Wikipedia portal statistics and translations  on 6 Sep 2017

Maps

 * Gehel finished up reimaging the maps-test servers

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