Discovery/Status updates/2016-12-05
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This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-12-05
Highlights
- Load tests for cross-project searching were completed successfully. We are now testing how many results are produced for typical queries as a first step towards figuring out how relevant the results are.
- Released tabular and map data namespaces to Commons, after reviewing implementation, consulting legal, enabling shared geojson data storage, and adding metrics tracking.
Discussions
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Search
[edit]- We've put together a draft proposal for how to deal with the interaction of all the possible additional search options—suggestions, quote-stripping, "wrong keyboard", language ID, etc.—to have a more co-ordinated conversation about all this. Comments on the talk page there are welcome.
- Load tests for cross-project searching were completed successfully. We are now testing how many results are produced for typical queries as a first step towards figuring out how relevant the results are.
- Upgraded to Java 8 in preparation for upgrading ElasticSearch next quarter. (T151325)
- Performed some refactoring to improve interwiki searching. (T141033)
- Improved handling of characters containing diacritics or accents. (T137830, T146402)
- Added support for minimum query length to detect the language of the query. When a minimum length is eventually chosen, this will solve edge cases where some very short queries and queries consisting just of numbers could produce unexpected results. (T149318)
- Fixed an edge case where third-party users of CirrusSearch could get an exception when building a completion suggester index. (T150799)
Analysis
[edit]Portal
[edit]Interactive
[edit]- Enhance Report Updater to be able to send data to graphite
- Increase user sampling rate
- Investigate ClearTables
- Bug fixed: Closing maps by going back doesn't always work
- Updated and adapted Tabular Data to match published formats
- Updated Legal wording update for tabular and map data release
- Added information on how to change error message
- Updated the logging for Kartotherian from info to warn
Events and News
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Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Published Wikimedia Discovery's narrative and roadmap for FY 2016/17 (July 2016 - June 2017)
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Development
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