Hi, Below you'll find the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week starting 2018-03-19.
As always, feedback and questions welcome. == Discussions == === Search === * Trey has finished his initial review of a Slovak stemmer, and so far it looks like like the less aggressive version of the stemmer performs well. [0] Next steps may include more testing and packaging a version of the stemmer into an Elasticsearch plugin. == Did you know? == * The English word ''nice'' has undergone many big swings in meaning, including “foolish”, “painstaking”, “strict”, “subtle”, and “risky”. See the obsolete and dated senses in English Wiktionary [1] or the etymological information at Etymonline [2]. [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Slovak_Stemmer_Analysis [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nice#English [2] https://www.etymonline.com/word/nice --- 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