Discovery/Status updates/2017-08-28

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2017-08-28

Discussions

Search

• Erik turned off the interleaved search results test (T171214) and the search relevance test (T171742)
• Jan completed a minor update to the UI of the sister project snippets (T171804)
• Erik continued work on mitigating future occurrences of search latency degradation (T169498)

Analysis

• Mikhail finished up the analysis for the first two A/B tests for the search relevance testing (grading by humans) (T171740)
• Chelsy put the final touches on the explore similar A/B test analysis (T164857)
• Mikhail reviewed an upcoming patch to add purge info for the Kartographer schema (T171622)

Maps

• Gehel aligned the maps* and maps-test* configurations to be the same (T169082)
• After many discussions on what is a reasonable per-IP ratelimit for maps, decisions have been made and was promoted to production on Sep 4 (T169175)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Trey wrote a post for the WIkimedia Blog: "Wikipedia, search, and the 'Цкщтп' keyboard" [1]

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