Discovery/Status updates/2017-10-09

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

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Search tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016:
 * 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

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

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Interactive

 * Implement static kartotherian service with geojson layer
 * Document how to use maps directly from JavaScript

Interactive tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016:
 * Maplinks external groups are applied multiples times

=Events and News = Events and News
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= Other Noteworthy Stuff =  Other Noteworthy Stuff
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= Did you know? = Did you know?
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= Development = Development
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