[Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2017-02-13

[Chris Koerner]

Howdy,
A few updates this week from across the Discovery department.


== Highlights ==
*Annual Plan "Collab Jam" took place in the SF offices this week, where
lots of conversations were had on how teams within the Foundation can work
together in the next fiscal year to do cool things.
* ICU Folding is now effective on all English, French, Hebrew and Greek
wikis. [1]
** Note: please consider asking for this feature if you would like to
enable it on a particular language.

== Discussions ==

=== Search ===
* The new contentmodel search keyword is now operational on commons. [0]
* ICU Folding is now effective on all English, French, Hebrew and Greek
wikis. [1]
** Note: please consider asking for this feature if you would like to
enable it on a particular language.

=== Portal ===
* Had an issue with a bad caching of an error message which resulted in
text not being displayed on the wikipedia.org page for a very short time.
This will be fixed with a patch. [2]
* Article statistics were updated for wikipedia.org, wikiquote.org and
wikiversity.org [3]

=== Wikidata Query Service ===
* Upgraded to Blazegraph 2.1.5 RC, several bugs fixed.
* POST is now enabled for WDQS queries.
* Started nomination process for federation endpoints. [4]


[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156371
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155515
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158782
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546
[4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_federation_input



The archive of all 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


Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2017-02-13

[Chris Koerner]

Hello,
Here are the updates from the Discovery department for the week of 13
February. As always, feedback on these updates are welcome. I hope you're
having a good day.

== Discussions ==

=== Search ===
* The inter-wiki search test has been modified this week to allow for more
bucketing/sampling of users so that we can get more data to analyze. This
is an A/B test of a new search results page which includes inter-wiki
search results that is deployed to Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish
Wikipedias. Take a look and give us feedback! [0] [1]
* Our codfw elasticsearch cluster has been upgraded to Debian Jessie, its
partitioning has been standardised and a 12 new servers have been added [2]
[3] [4]
* Wikidata Query Service has two more brand new servers [5] [6]

[0]
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=passion+for+food=1=recall_sidebar_results=ee2pd7unaob35dtu96lmlor98
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149806
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151326
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151328
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154251
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152643
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152643




The archive of all 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

Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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