Hello,
Here is the Discovery status update for the week starting 07 November.
Feedback and questions are welcome.

==Highlights==
* Many older search tickets that were in the backlog were resolved this
week - due to work being completed previously.

==Discussions==
* Opened a discussion with the Wikipedia Ambassadors community requesting
volunteer wikis that want to be part of upcoming A/B tests for cross-wiki
search results. [0]

=== Search ===
* Double suggestion when searching on wikipedia with limit/offset [1]
* EPIC: Review current ElasticSearch configuration, and use relevance lab
to run tests to optimise the configuration to improve search result
relevance [2]
* CirrusSearch should do something helpful if the search does not return
enough results [3]
* CirrusSearch: No highlighted text returned from `intitle:` phrase
searches [4]
* Improve searches on poor spellings [5]
* Add extra breakdowns to dashboards, e.g. by country, by language [6]
* CirrusSearch: More search results when narrowing down search term [7]
* "San Lorenzo (quartiere di Napoli)" not first match when searching the
words in different order [8]
* Implement a new fulltext query [9]
* Poorly tuned rankings [10]
* opensearch: Querying for "Big" or "Big!" should include "Big" or "Big!"
as first suggestion [11]
* "Ignoring nonexistent page" that does exist [12]

'''Search tickets to be released in next week's train:'''
* Options for Completion Suggester misaligned when description uses more
than one line [13]
* Image search by file size - will be live when Commons is reindexed [14]

=== Analysis  ===
* Verified data pipeline for BM25 AB test - ja, zh, th [15]
* [Dashboard][Search] Make monthly metrics module work again [16]
* Investigate if Interactive logging schema makes sense [17]

=== Portal ===
* ''crickets while waiting for code reviews''

=== Interactive ===
* <maplink> does not work in Monobook skin [18]
* <maplink> does not work on "Modern" skin [19]
* Maps "align" attribute definitions, review and fix [20]

'''Interactive tickets to be released in next week's train:'''
* Full screen map does not hide sidebar in "Cologne Blue" skin [21]

=== Interactive Ops ===
* Ensure Postgres maps have proper indexes [22]

== Other Noteworthy Stuff  ==
* Guys in bouncing pink suits [23]



[0]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2016-November/001502.html
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149269
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125603
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55799
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94874
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1240
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102896
[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103289
[8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138996
[9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128073
[10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134340
[11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60309
[12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69869
[13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149982
[14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78490
[15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147496
[16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149752
[17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149838
[18] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145521
[19] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150148
[20] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150063
[21] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150149
[22] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138277
[23] http://i.imgur.com/sd15NVu.gifv


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The full update, and archive of 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 - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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