Discovery/Status updates/2017-11-13

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2017-11-13

==Highlights== Highlights
 * There is a survey on French Wikipedia asking if they should replace static maps with dynamic maps and to define best practices.

==Discussions== Discussions

Search

 * Erik did quite a bit of research into whether we should expand the rescore windows for learning to rank — it was decided it wouldn't be helpful
 * David fixed a bug where the JobQueue was trying to report update metrics when response was not valid
 * Gehel paid down some technical debt by creating a dedicated elastic component in the APT repository — which will help get the next upgrade more smoothly
 * Stas fixed bug where removed Wikidata description was still showing when searching

Analysis

 * Mikhail provided analysis of external & internal WDQS traffic as preparation for sizing of internal WDQS cluster.

WDQS

 * Stas reloaded WDQS database to enable external links and performance improvements

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