Discovery/Status updates/2016-09-19
This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-09-19
Discussions
- The team had several conversations about elastic search things (ICU_folding) and external referrers and how to get db access for investigations as well as mock design for displaying the upcoming cross-wiki search results
- Data Demolition Derby was completed for cleaning up old Qualtrics survey data
Events and News
- Interactive:
- Geoshapes service can now get both polygons (e.g. city outline) and lines (eg. rivers and roads) by their Wikidata ID
- "properties" in GeoJSON now apply to the ExternalData geoshapes
- Search:
- CompletionSuggester with defaultsort demo available here, feedback welcome
- Completed analysis of squashing Russian stress accents and folding ё to е for Russian wikis.
- Updated ElasticSearch document versioning in CirrusSearch
- Updated Completion Suggester code for searching a subpage title using the search bar
- Added position increment gap to fields where positions are stored
- Documented our usage of the term 'PaulScore'
- Upgraded ElasticSearch and plugins to 2.3.5
- Monitor the usage of in memory data structures used by ElasticSearch
- Fixed when search for insource:tag finds "<tag>" but not "{{#tag:tag}}
- Analysis:
- Wikipedia.org Portal:
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Yuri and Julien are attending State of the Map 2016 conference in Brussels
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