Discovery/Status updates/2017-10-09

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-11-07

==Highlights== Highlights
 * Many older search tickets that were in the backlog were resolved this week - due to work being completed previously.

==Discussions== 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.

Search

 * Double suggestion when searching on wikipedia with limit/offset
 * EPIC: Review current ElasticSearch configuration, and use relevance lab to run tests to optimise the configuration to improve search result relevance
 * CirrusSearch should do something helpful if the search does not return enough results
 * CirrusSearch: No highlighted text returned from `intitle:` phrase searches
 * Improve searches on poor spellings
 * Add extra breakdowns to dashboards, e.g. by country, by language
 * CirrusSearch: More search results when narrowing down search term
 * "San Lorenzo (quartiere di Napoli)" not first match when searching the words in different order
 * Implement a new fulltext query
 * Poorly tuned rankings
 * opensearch: Querying for "Big" or "Big!" should include "Big" or "Big!" as first suggestion
 * "Ignoring nonexistent page" that does exist

Search tickets to be released in next week's train:
 * Options for Completion Suggester misaligned when description uses more than one line
 * Image search by file size - will be live when Commons is reindexed

Analysis

 * 'Verified data pipeline for BM25 AB test - ja, zh, th
 * [Dashboard][Search] Make monthly metrics module work again
 * Investigate if Interactive logging schema makes sense

Portal

 * crickets while waiting for code reviews

Interactive

 * does not work in Monobook skin
 * does not work on "Modern" skin
 * Maps "align" attribute definitions, review and fix

Interactive tickets to be released in next week's train:
 * Full screen map does not hide sidebar in "Cologne Blue" skin

Interactive Ops

 * Ensure Postgres maps have proper indexes

==Events and News == Events and News
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== Other Noteworthy Stuff ==  Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Guys in bouncing pink suits

== Did you know? == Did you know?
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== Development == Development
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