Discovery/Status updates/2017-10-09

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

=Discussions= Discussions

Search:

 * Updated the search results page because the content overflows page boundaries
 * Add accent squashing to Russian/Cyrillic analyser (with tests)
 * Fixed Cyrillic 'Е' and 'Ё' equivalence not found by search
 * Decided on the outcome of the recent BM25 A/B test, what our next steps on using BM25 will be
 * Fixed issue where the search page content overflows the page boundaries on various browsers
 * Updated where users prefer pages in their language in multilingual wikis

Analysis:

 * Completed analysis of the results of BM25 AB test (final report)
 * Search results page: how many visitors are on mobile vs desktop - Mikhail ran a hive query for the last couple of weeks and discovered:

Portal:

 * Updated articles by languages
 * Centered 'the free encyclopedia' phrase on mobile devices
 * Fixed the language link that broke unevenly
 * Updated the portal text to use the new, approved shade of blue (partially completed)
 * Fixed where `.lang-list-button` doesn't feature focus state

Interactive:

 * Maps with geoshapes now have a link to Wikidata item or query in the bottom attribution text (i.e.: externalData should show up as data source in credits)
 * Migrated all map usage from "href" to "service" external data (about 50 pages)
 * Simplified (and normalized) ExternalData parsing in Kartographer
 * Geoshapes service URL is hardcoded
 * Refactor data loader into a separate lib, as both Kartotherian (snapshot) and Kartographer need identical functionality, for a given map, we need to provide a fully expanded (no externalData) GeoJSON
 * Fixed where failed ExternalData requests result in all maps on page being completely broken
 * Set "maxzoom" to 14 on osm.tm2source, based on community feedback
 * Defined KPIs and other interesting maps statistics about how we would like to gather to track and improve maps
 * Ensure Maps servers can be installed easily (automation + documentation)
 * maps-test* hosts running low on space
 * Updated to postgresql 9.4.9 on all maps servers

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