Hello, A few updates this week from across the Discovery team. Programming note: There is a new way to follow these weekly updates. You can subscribe to recieve on-wiki (or opt-in email) notifications of the Discovery weekly update. Subscribe to be notified.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Discovery_Weekly == Discussions == * Paul conducted a cartographic review of the new map styles for the Design team on 6 Sep 2017. === Search === * Gehel updated logstash to stop deploying custom elasticsearch plugins that are no longer used and did a rolling restart of elasticsearch/logstash [0] * David upgraded an extra plugin as part of the upgrade to elastic 5.5.x [1] * Erik turned on a third test for the Search Relevance Survey (graded by humans), the test is expected to take a week. [2] * Erik trained MLR models for all wikis with >= 1% of search traffic, in preparation for AB test next week * Erik investigating potential memory leaks in MLR model training which makes training for large wikis (de, en) error prone === Portal === * Jan fixed a bug where the typeahead wasn't working for a single character [3] * Jan also updated the Wikipedia portal statistics and translations on 6 Sep 2017 [4] [5] === Maps === * Gehel finished up reimaging the maps-test servers [6] [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174933 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174652 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175046 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173885 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142582 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169011 ---- 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 Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
