Discovery/Status updates/2017-11-27

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2017-11-27

==Discussions== Discussions

Search

 * More work has been done on upgrading elasticsearch to 5.5.x
 * We re-indexed English language wikis to incorporate the Katakana and Hiragana searches
 * Issues were found where search.wikimedia.org was the source of lots of 500 errors, it's been resolved
 * Indexing wikidata descriptions has been enabled (but still working on using that in the search)

Analysis

 * Chelsy's analysis is complete for testing on 18 wikis with > 1% of search traffic ; read here and here

Portal

 * The name change from "Sámegiella" to "Davvisámegiella" has been pushed into production on Nov 20
 * The portal translations and stats have been updated — via our new automated process (it's still a work in process)

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