Discovery/Status updates/2016-11-07

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-11-07

Highlights

• Many older search tickets that were in the backlog were resolved this week - due to work being completed previously.

Discussions

• Opened a discussion with the Wikipedia Ambassadors community requesting volunteer wikis that want to be part of upcoming A/B tests for cross-wiki search results.

Search

• Double suggestion when searching on wikipedia with limit/offset
• EPIC: Review current ElasticSearch configuration, and use relevance lab to run tests to optimise the configuration to improve search result relevance
• CirrusSearch should do something helpful if the search does not return enough results
• CirrusSearch: No highlighted text returned from `intitle:` phrase searches
• Improve searches on poor spellings
• Add extra breakdowns to dashboards, e.g. by country, by language
• CirrusSearch: More search results when narrowing down search term
• "San Lorenzo (quartiere di Napoli)" not first match when searching the words in different order
• Implement a new fulltext query
• Poorly tuned rankings
• opensearch: Querying for "Big" or "Big!" should include "Big" or "Big!" as first suggestion
• "Ignoring nonexistent page" that does exist

Search tickets to be released in next week's train:

• Options for Completion Suggester misaligned when description uses more than one line
• Image search by file size - will be live when Commons is reindexed

Analysis

• 'Verified data pipeline for BM25 AB test - ja, zh, th
• [Dashboard][Search] Make monthly metrics module work again
• Investigate if Interactive logging schema makes sense

Portal

• crickets while waiting for code reviews

Interactive

• <maplink> does not work in Monobook skin
• <maplink> does not work on "Modern" skin
• Maps "align" attribute definitions, review and fix

Interactive tickets to be released in next week's train:

• Full screen map does not hide sidebar in "Cologne Blue" skin

Interactive Ops

• Ensure Postgres maps have proper indexes

Events and News

• Something goes here

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Guys in bouncing pink suits

Did you know?

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Development

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