Discovery/Status updates/2017-10-09

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2017-01-30

==Highlights== Highlights
 * For those interested in how we test changes to search, there's now a page on Testing Search.
 * Requested more text to be translated on the wikipedia.org portal page via translatewiki.
 * "Hiring a data scientist", a post on Wikimedia Blog that provides an in-depth look into Discovery's hiring process for the Analysis team.

==Discussions== Discussions
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Search

 * Delayed updates from previous weeks:
 * Created a list of languages for which we want to investigate analysers (T155549)
 * After analysis, decided to use Stempel as our new Polish language analyser (T154516); analysis of Stempel is underway (T154517)
 * Fixed issue with ICU folding that caused problems with the search index (T156234)
 * Work continues to upgrade to Elasticsearch 5 (T155671, T151224)
 * A lot of work on TextCat (language identification) has been deployed (T149324); configuration to enable it in production should go out next week.
 * Added document content model into the search index (T156371) and contentmodel: keyword.
 * Added more aliases for filetype: keyword.
 * Nearly done with getting things ready for a new A/B test to be launched on a few wikipedias for sister project search results
 * Fixed a timeout issue with advanced searches (T152895, T134157) (not yet deployed, will be deployed with Elasticsearch 5 upgrade)

Analysis

 * Wrapping up migrating a significant amount of data using the ReportUpdater infrastructure - almost done! Updating dashboards now to use the new datasets, including NEW datasets (like LDF endpoint usage for WDQS)

Portal

 * Added new text to translatewiki for wikipedia.org portal page for app links and legal language in footer

Interactive

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==Events and News == Events and News
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== Other Noteworthy Stuff ==  Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * San Francisco by Maxime Le Forestier
 * Election Day videos playlist

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