Discovery/Status updates/2016-09-19

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-09-19

=Discussions= Discussions =Events and News = Events and News
 * The team had several conversations about elastic search things (ICU_folding) and external referrers and how to get db access for investigations as well as mock design for displaying the upcoming cross-wiki search results
 * Data Demolition Derby was completed for cleaning up old Qualtrics survey data


 * Interactive:
 * Geoshapes service can now get both polygons (e.g. city outline) and lines (eg. rivers and roads) by their Wikidata ID
 * "properties" in GeoJSON now apply to the ExternalData geoshapes


 * Search:
 * CompletionSuggester with defaultsort demo available here, feedback welcome
 * Completed analysis of squashing Russian stress accents and folding ё to е for Russian wikis.
 * Updated ElasticSearch document versioning in CirrusSearch
 * This is contingent on a full cluster restart and a deployment of the configuration change
 * Updated Completion Suggester code for searching a subpage title using the search bar
 * Added position increment gap to fields where positions are stored
 * Documented our usage of the term 'PaulScore'
 * Upgraded ElasticSearch and plugins to 2.3.5
 * Monitor the usage of in memory data structures used by ElasticSearch
 * Fixed when search for insource:tag finds " " but not "


 * Analysis:
 * Completed analysis to determine if the new Wikipedia.org portal page display caused any pageview decreases to smaller wikis (UK) (analysis html and pdf docs)
 * Updated dashboards to allow for easier bookmarking/copying


 * Wikipedia.org Portal:
 * Requested additional translations from translatewiki
 * Optimize the image optimization

= Other Noteworthy Stuff =  Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Yuri and Julien are attending State of the Map 2016 conference in Brussels

= Did you know? = Did you know?

= Development = Development


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