Discovery/Status updates/2016-09-26

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-09-26

Discussions

• Analysis team gave an eventlogging crash course
• Chatted about how to help with an effort to create offline pages for Wikipedia; will use the portal page as a test case

Events and News

Search:

• Works in progress but not yet in production:
  • File property search functionality merged and documented. As soon as deployment happens (next week), the reindexing will be performed.
  • Translate extension updated to allow searches in a specific language (without translations)
  • Satisfaction schema update for checkin events on if page is visible
  • Update the ascii folding to preserve original emits that are duplicated tokens for non ascii characters
  • Update the search api interwiki to only query when srinterwiki=1 is passed

Analysis:

• Works in progress but not yet in production:
  • Analysis of BM25 A/B test
  • Analysis of WDQS geographic breakdown of SPARQL queries
  • Expanding display of other countries in portal dashboard
  • Analysis of recent spike/upward trend on portal

Portal:

• Work in progress but not in production:
  • Improve color palette
  • Update for new translations
  • Update articles by language statistics
  • Test for adding app links to page
  • Update WMF logo
  • Fix where a language link broke on two lines
  • Few other small updates...

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Note: we had a code deployment freeze this week due to Ops having an offsite. Much of the work completed above will be released next week.

Development

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