Discovery/Status updates/2017-10-09

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2017-10-09

==Highlights== Highlights
 * After active discussions on Spanish Wikipedia,  has been enabled on that site.
 * The discussion on English Wikipedia on whether to ask for  to be enabled has been resolved with a consensus of 'yes' to support the use of this functionality on enwiki.
 * There is an ongoing discussion on English Wikivoyage about the use of  and a draft maps policy has been created.
 * There is a discussion on Commons about deletion requests, specifically about maps, user-derived work and licensing of that work.
 * The Search Platform team had a long discussion on how to improve search relevance surveys and A/B tests, highlights from the meeting can be read in and we'll use the information discussed in future tests.

==Discussions== Discussions

Search

 * Gehel finished the investigation into why elastic@codfw alerted during codfw row B switch upgrade, determined it was that a check done on the LVS endpoint ended up being routed to the server that had just recovered network connectivity.
 * A 'fix' was released last week that actually had un-intended results on the search results page by adding an icon to every autocomplete result in the main dropdown. Thanks, @Jdforrester for the quick fix!
 * Trey finished up and deployed code to not use Generic language fallbacks in Mediawiki for Elasticsearch language analyzers, once we re-index various small wikis, this code will be in production.
 * The A/B test running on 18 wikis with > 1% of search traffic has been stopped and is ready for analysis

Analysis

 * Mikhail finished up the Interleaved Search Results A/B test analysis.
 * Chelsy fixed an issue where the dashboard was counting events, not sessions, for mobile web events

Portal

 * Continuing conversations on the handling of Chinese languages on the Wikipedia portal with the community

Maps

 * Paul finalized a few map styling issues: tunnels ; implement all osm-bright.tm2 features in brighmed ;
 * The regeneration of map tiles in production finished up on Oct 10
 * has been enabled on Spanish Wikipedia

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