Discovery/Status updates/2018-09-10

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2018-09-03 and 2018-09-10

Highlights

 * New blog post: The anatomy of search: Variation under nature

Search

 * Trey finished up the Esperanto analysis, stemmer updates and reindexing of the wikis, ,
 * Erik tackled a lot of small bugs that will be in production the week of Sep 18th: redirect showing irrelevant info, strings starting with a # sign were redirecting to main page , error when using double quotes in the category or title , "close redirects" in error messages , UI issue where 'results 1 of 2' is displayed when only one result is found
 * Mathew fixed an issue with alerting for when Elasticsearch has shards larger than the maximum size
 * Erik worked on getting CirrusSearch to gracefully handle missing plugin sections in the ElasticSearch response
 * Gehel and Erik did some Mjolnir query daemon monitor work ,
 * Trey fixed an issue where empty strings caused by ICU folding in ElasticSearch were getting indexed
 * The work for using Kafka for communicating between the analytics cluster and elasticsearch has finished

Wikidata Query Service

 * Diskspace upgrade has been finished
 * Categories are now updated daily in WDQS from daily diffs

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