Discovery/Status updates/2017-10-09

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-12-05

==Highlights== Highlights
 * Load tests for cross-project searching were completed successfully. We are now testing how many results are produced for typical queries as a first step towards figuring out how relevant the results are.
 * Released tabular and map data namespaces to Commons, after reviewing implementation, consulting legal, enabling shared geojson data storage, and adding metrics tracking.

==Discussions== Discussions
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Search

 * We've put together a draft proposal for how to deal with the interaction of all the possible additional search options—suggestions, quote-stripping, "wrong keyboard", language ID, etc.—to have a more co-ordinated conversation about all this. Comments on the talk page there are welcome.
 * Load tests for cross-project searching were completed successfully. We are now testing how many results are produced for typical queries as a first step towards figuring out how relevant the results are.
 * Upgraded to Java 8 in preparation for upgrading ElasticSearch next quarter. (T151325)
 * Performed some refactoring to improve interwiki searching. (T141033)
 * Improved handling of characters containing diacritics or accents. (T137830, T146402)
 * Added support for minimum query length to detect the language of the query. When a minimum length is eventually chosen, this will solve edge cases where some very short queries and queries consisting just of numbers could produce unexpected results. (T149318)
 * Fixed an edge case where third-party users of CirrusSearch could get an exception when building a completion suggester index. (T150799)

Analysis

 * fixed an error with installing R package Boom (& bsts) on stat1002 (but can on stat1003)

Portal

 * Add node 6 compatibility to Portal build tasks

Interactive

 * Enhance Report Updater to be able to send data to graphite
 * Increase user sampling rate
 * Investigate ClearTables
 * Bug fixed: Closing maps by going back doesn't always work
 * Updated and adapted Tabular Data to match published formats
 * Updated Legal wording update for tabular and map data release
 * Added information on how to change error message
 * Updated the logging for Kartotherian from info to warn

==Events and News == Events and News
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== Other Noteworthy Stuff ==  Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Published Wikimedia Discovery's narrative and roadmap for FY 2016/17 (July 2016 - June 2017)
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== Did you know? == Did you know?
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== Development == Development
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