Discovery/Status updates/2017-10-09

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2017-10-09

Highlights

After active discussions on Spanish Wikipedia, mapframe has been enabled on that site.
The discussion on English Wikipedia on whether to ask for mapframe to be enabled has been resolved with a consensus of 'yes' to support the use of this functionality on enwiki.
There is an ongoing discussion on English Wikivoyage about the use of mapframe and a draft maps policy has been created.
There is a discussion on Commons about deletion requests, specifically about maps, user-derived work and licensing of that work. (task T155290)
The Search Platform team had a long discussion on how to improve search relevance surveys and A/B tests, highlights from the meeting can be read in (task T171215#3677637) and we'll use the information discussed in future tests.

Gehel finished the investigation into why elastic@codfw alerted during codfw row B switch upgrade, determined it was that a check done on the LVS endpoint ended up being routed to the server that had just recovered network connectivity. (task T170378)
A 'fix' was released last week that actually had un-intended results on the search results page by adding an icon to every autocomplete result in the main dropdown. Thanks, @Jdforrester for the quick fix! (task T177659)
Trey finished up and deployed code to not use Generic language fallbacks in Mediawiki for Elasticsearch language analyzers, once we re-index various small wikis (task T177871), this code will be in production. (task T147959)
The A/B test running on 18 wikis with > 1% of search traffic has been stopped (task T177490)and is ready for analysis (task T176493)

Mikhail finished up the Interleaved Search Results A/B test analysis (task T171215).
Chelsy fixed an issue where the dashboard was counting events, not sessions, for mobile web events (task T176811)

Continuing conversations on the handling of Chinese languages on the Wikipedia portal (task T171647#3679370) with the community

Paul finalized a few map styling issues: tunnels (task T154823); implement all osm-bright.tm2 features in brighmed (task T153400);
The regeneration of map tiles in production finished up on Oct 10 (task T176252)
mapframe has been enabled on Spanish Wikipedia (task T177695)

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