Discovery/Status updates/2017-06-26

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2017-06-26

==Discussions== Discussions

Search

 * Evaluated several training set sizes for the learning-to-rank models
 * Completed several successful load tests on the servers for learning-to-rank query plugin
 * Fixed a bug with second try searching using language detection
 * Updated CirrusSearch to not depend on spaces to activate proximity rescoring (phrase rescore)
 * Explore similar pages, categories and languages A/B test was activated on June 29, 2017

Analysis

 * Updated the dashboards polloi package that now allows country names and assigning of ASCII region names

Portal

 * Statistics and translations  were updated on the Wikipedia.org portal page on June 27, 2017

Interactive

 * A bug where coordinates were being passed incorrectly to external map services was fixed in production
 * Discussion and a patch uploaded to update Kartographer so that jQuery 3 doesn't break things

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