Discovery/Status updates/2017-10-09

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-10-24

=Discussions= Discussions
 * Show globe icon 🌐 next to all links
 * Request for Comment - All map location names should be shown in the user's language
 * Merge Kartographer with commons-on-osm
 * Discussion and recommendations for the overall usability of the new search engine results page with the Design team

Search

 * Don't show the "results from other projects" box if empty
 * Check to see if popularity_score is wrong in a lot of articles
 * Disable highlighting on insource queries if experimental highlighter in not turned on
 * Reindex search cluster for BM25 test
 * Search works incorrectly when the query contains words used as namespace names and a colon
 * ask for translations for 'showing results from' (Polish, Dutch, Arabic and Chinese)
 * Configure varnish to include wdqs nodes in codfw
 * Started second BM25 A/B test (ja, zh, th)
 * Turn on second BM25 test
 * Fix in_array expects parameter 2 to be an array or collection in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.28.0-wmf.22/extensions/CirrusSearch/includes/Search/RescoreBuilders.php on line 160
 * Communicate to community the upcoming BM25 release
 * [Recurring task] CirrusSearch: what is updated during re-indexing
 * Review and fix the description of autocomplete profiles (completion suggester) in the Search preference tab
 * Enable cross-wiki backend search functionality on it.wikipedia - we made it faster
 * Enable GC (garbage collection) logs on Elasticsearch JVM
 * Argument 2 passed to SearchEngine::processCompletionResults must be an instance of SearchSuggestionSet, Elastica\Response in SearchEngine class
 * [bug] cirrussearch fatal in 1.28.0-wmf.23 -

Analysis

 * Compare ZRR for query features across other search engines
 * Investigate what we'd need to do to ignore double quotes in search queries
 * Maps Dashboard: fix and update
 * Analyze the variance of user-agent's, country, and other useful metrics of google referred traffic with and without a search query available in referrer
 * Add a PaulScore approximation to discovery.wmflabs.org

Portal
'Portal updates that got code reviews after rebasing - thanks! '
 * update logo for new branding guidelines
 * add information for Wikipedia / Wikimedia apps availability

Interactive

 * Deprecate provided by MapSources in favor of Kartographer's
 * Illegal and unheralded removal of MapSourcesHooks::wfgeoLink function hook on dewikivoyage
 * More details button should appear when map is loaded
 * maps1002 does not run latest kartotherian
 * Snapshot service not working with empty groups param
 * Kartographer no longer displays external data credits
 * Graph behaves differently on PHP7 - was fixed automagically
 * / : Invalid GeoJSON code in wgKartographerLiveData prevents drawing of maps at Wikivoyage
 * Don't pollute history with map hashes
 * Fix Governor's demo - party affiliations (needed a fix with WDQS SPARQL query - thanks, Stas!)

Interactive tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Nov 1, 2016:
 * Use maps snapshot service until user interacts (click/mouseover?)
 * Geoshape service should return map mask polygon with holes
 * Show preview with static maps is broken
 * [Bug] GeoData\Searcher fatal error in 1.28-wmf.23
 * Support data.get with optional language param
 * Remove static background from mapframes after going dynamic

Interactive Ops Tasks

 * WV layers dropdown bug on vem.wmflabs.org
 * Maps - move traffic to eqiad instead of codfw
 * Configure new maps servers in eqiad
 * Unmet dependencies around postgis apt packages on maps* servers
 * increase replication factor for system_auth keyspace on maps / cassandra
 * Upgrade PostGIS on maps servers to version 2.2+
 * Maps-test was created with incorrect initial encoding
 * Update Node on Maps to v4.6.0
 * elastic2020 is powered off and does not want to restart
 * Maps - error when doing initial tiles generation: "Error: could not create converter for SQL_ASCII""

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