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This is the weekly update for the week starting 2018-11-26

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 * David worked on adding a config var to control which clusters (replica) the sanitizer works on by default, since by switching to multi-instance setup we will be adding temp clusters that the sanitizer doesn't need to run on Note: this will go into production the week of December 11th, 2018
 * Erik repaired the transfer_to_es analytics job which had stopped working twice in a row
 * Erik and David worked on the effort to remedy intermittent json parse failures in completion suggester Note: this will go into production the week of December 11th, 2018
 * David fixed an issue where implemented LTR query features that rely on the feature vector were not compatible with the way Elastic implemented their profiling API
 * Gehel, David, and Mathew worked on refactoring current code base to support multiple elasticsearch instances/multiple elasticsearch clusters
 * We needed to deploy extra-analysis-surrogates & the experimental highlighter 5.5.2.4 to production before we could reindex the Chinese-language wikis and
 * An issue was found where characters in CJK extension C were being treated as U+FFFD when searching on zhWP - it's fixed now
 * The team helped to setup two elasticsearch clusters on relforge to test multi-instance
 * The team also helped with the Elastica dependencies that needed to be updated to v5.3.2
 * David worked on fixing the prefix search that had broken again when using multiple namespaces and namespaces with $wgCapitalLinks = false;
 * David and Gehel completed work on preparing a debian package with the experimental highlighter 5.5.2.4 and fixed an issue where the experimental highlighter was breaking unicode surrogate pairs when cutting the snippets
 * David fixed an issue where a precondition failed: while trying to get token image at offset -1
 * Mathew worked on issues where parts of WDQS puppet module is written in old puppet and also lacks type constraints
 * David fixed an issue where elasticsearch_hot_threads on relforge had errors (ImportError: No module named 'yaml')
 * Mathew and Gehel refactored wdqs::gui - to separate cron tasks from the module

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