Hello, A quick update this week. Below you'll find the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week starting 2018-01-15.
*Programming note*: Due to the Wikimedia Foundation Developers Summit and All-hands event there won't be an update for the week of 22 Jan. We'll resume the week after, 29 Jan. === Search === * Trey put together a 45 minute presentation covering the very basics on how full-text search works. There's more information in the description on Commons. [0] == Did you know? == * Basque, [1] spoken in the Basque Country between France and Spain, is a linguistic isolate, [2] meaning that it is not known to be related to any other language. Korean [3] is also a linguistic isolate. The origin of most spoken isolates like these is lost to history—though many linguists believe they are in fact related to other spoken languages, just so distantly that the relationship cannot be conclusively proven. However, a signed isolate—Nicaraguan Sign Language [4]—came into existence among deaf children in Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s, and linguists were able to document its fascinating development! [0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BareBonesSearch.webm [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_language [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_isolate [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language --- Subscribe to receive on-wiki (or opt-in email) notifications of the Discovery weekly update. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Discovery_Weekly The archive of all 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 Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
