Discovery/Status updates/2016-10-17

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-10-17

=Discussions= Discussions
 * Added a Request for Comment (RfC) on refactoring Kartotherian to use an established plugin system
 * Added more information in order to estimate the hardware requirements for ordering new servers for Elasticsearch
 * Had a discussion about needing variant options for Chinese in Language Settings
 * Discussed the preliminary results on running Paulscore with BM25 on zh, ja, th
 * Started the discussion on the roll out plan/path for Maps
 * Added a Request for Comment (RfC) on support for link text vs fullscreen caption text

Search

 * Enable sub-phrase completion suggester on wikitech, mediawiki.org and wikisource
 * Enable document versioning support via wikimedia-extra extension in production
 * Remove custom analysis chains from vagrant
 * Map modifier letter apostrophes to straight or curly quotes in the French Elasticsearch analysis chain

Search tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016:
 * Put SITENAME in search box placeholder "searchsuggest-search" like in MobileFrontend's "mobile-frontend-placeholder
 * Integrate "did you mean" data collection into search satisfaction schema
 * Improve processing of the apostrophe by the search engine in Ukrainian
 * Enable Latvian and Lithuanian analyzers
 * CirrusSearch SQL query for locating pages for reindex performs poorly
 * MySQL chooses poor query plan for link counting query
 * When showing search results for different language, exclude images from Commons

Analysis
Analysis tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016:
 * Add a PaulScore approximation to discovery.wmflabs.org (waiting on T138087 to be deployed on the train)

Portal
Portal updates that need code review - PLEASE HELP:
 * update logo for new branding guidelines
 * add information for Wikipedia / Wikimedia apps availability

Interactive

 * Implement static kartotherian service with geojson layer
 * Document how to use maps directly from JavaScript
 * Maplinks external groups are applied multiples times
 * Perpetration for depreciating is done thanks to RolandUnger, who handled updating most of the templates

Interactive tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016:
 * Enable double-click zooming in full screen mode
 * Coordinates do not fit in the detail box on one line
 * Wikivoyage groups incorrectly show external layers
 * Opening VisualEditor on en.wp always loads Mapbox
 * Maplink breaks when showing undefined groups

= Other Noteworthy Stuff =  Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Decommissioned deployment-elastic08.deployment-prep.eqiad.wmflabs

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