Discovery/Status updates/2018-04-16

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2018-04-16

Highlights

 * The Search team is looking for a volunteer to help with this easy ticket: Enable search result ranking in MySQL full text search.

Search

 * Serbian-language wikis have been updated with a new language analyzer for search that does some stemming (so that related forms of a word can find each other) and handles the transliteration between the Serbian Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, which are both used in Serbian.
 * ...and work on the plugin and re-indexing the wikis to allow the new Serbian alphabets to be used is also done &  &
 * Stas fixed some bugs for deep category search
 * Completion search for Lexemes merged
 * Fixed some indexing errors
 * Cirrus profile management has been updated to provide a standard way to override profile content
 * Fixed issues with ElasticSearch latency alerts on ~15 wikis that had the issue

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