Re: [Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2016-10-03

[Niklas Laxström]

2016-10-10 1:25 GMT+03:00 Chris Koerner :
> = Discussions =
>
> == Search ==
> * Translate extension updated to allow searches in a specific language
> (without translations) [3]

Actually it was CirrusSearch that was updated.

Translate already supports filtering the search results by language
when using database search backend, and there is
Special:SearchTranslations when using ElasticSearch as translation
memory backend.

  -Niklas

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[Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2016-10-03

[Chris Koerner]

Howdy,
This past week was full of updates from the Discovery department.

= Discussions =

== Search ==
* Elasticsearch doesn't offer language analyzers for every language that we
have wikis in, so sometimes we fall back to a language analyzer of a
(linguistically or geopolitically) related language. This can lead to
unexpected effects—such as changes in the Russian language analyzer
affecting Ukrainian; or changes needed for Ukrainian maybe having to be
made in the Russian language analyzer, unless we special-case them by
language (which could affect T146358). [1]  If you have any thoughts on
this or just want to see the fallback language list, head over to the
Fallback Languages page and leave a comment, or reply to the Discovery
list. [2]
* Translate extension updated to allow searches in a specific language
(without translations) [3]
* Satisfaction schema update for checkin events on if page is visible [4]
* Update the ascii folding to preserve original emits that are duplicated
tokens for non ascii characters [5]
* Update the search api interwiki to only query when srinterwiki=1 is
passed [6]
* Reduce the number of replicas for some title suggest indices [7]

== Analysis ==
* Analysis of WDQS geographic breakdown of SPARQL queries [8]
* Wikipedia.org Portal Dashboard: investigate spike in languages visited [9]
* Wikipedia.org dashboard: minor updates [10]
* Bug in current data retrieval script [11]
* Add comment to search-related eventlogging in iOS and Android apps to
inform Discovery of changes [12]

== Portal ==
(works in progress, needing code review or waiting to be released into
production)

* Improve color palette [13]
* Update for new translations [14]
* Update articles by language statistics [15]
* Test for adding app links to page [16]
* Update WMF logo [17]
* Fix where a language link broke on two lines [18]
* Few other small updates...

== Interactive ==
* GeoJSON can now contain un-encoded SPARQL (query and ids ExternalData
properties): example [19]
* There is now "geoshape" and "geoline" types of ExternalData - one is for
polygons (e.g. cities, countries), and the other is for lines (roads,
rivers). As always, make sure OpenStreetMap has WikidataID attached to be
able to use them.
* Many minor Kartographer bug fixes [20]

= Events and News ==
* WikiConference North America 2016 is being held in San Diego this weekend
and several of the Discovery team will be in attendance.

= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* Deb has started integrating slowly into the Discovery Interactive Team as
a quasi-Product Manager
* Dan and Deb will split up PM duties of the Discovery Search Team in the
coming weeks


[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146358
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Fallback_Langauges
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125944
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145102
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146886
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147003
[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147192
[8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143762
[9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146216
[10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146215
[11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146422
[12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143753
[13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146231
[14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143338
[15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546
[16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137495
[17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144834
[18] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144007
[19]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer#GeoShapes_external_data
[20] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/SYDosTLCk706
[21] https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2016/Main_Page




The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on Mediawiki.org:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as Easy or volunteer
needed in Phabricator.

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R

-- 
Take care,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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