Re: [Wikitech-l] Advice on Tuning Search?

2018-11-02 Thread Trey Jones
We have an Etherpad agenda that I just created, too: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours —Trey Trey Jones Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 5:03 PM Erika Bjune wrote: > Also, just FYI, the Search Platform team has

Re: [Wikitech-l] Advice on Tuning Search?

2018-11-02 Thread Erika Bjune
Also, just FYI, the Search Platform team has started holding regular office hours on the first Wednesday of every month. Details for our next meeting were just sent out a couple of days ago: Date: Wednesday, November 7th, 2018 Time: 16:00 GMT / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET Google Meet link:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Advice on Tuning Search?

2018-11-02 Thread Pine W
Hi Michael, If you're interested in subjects regarding search then I suggest that you subscribe to the Discovery mailing list. Your question would be a great fit for that list (not that it's bad to post it to Wikitech-l). See https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery. Pine (

[Wikitech-l] Changes to User Blocking

2018-11-02 Thread Alex Ezell
Hi all, I'm Alex Ezell and I'm the Engineering Manager for the Anti-Harassment Tools team at the WMF. I have some details about user blocking that I'd like to share. *tl:dr;* On a wiki with the new Partial Blocks enabled (currently only testwiki), if the code is checking User::isBlocked() to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Advice on Tuning Search?

2018-11-02 Thread David Causse
On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 3:51 AM Hogan (US), Michael C < michael.c.hog...@boeing.com> wrote: > Can anyone point me to a starting point for learning about how to tune > CirrusSearch (or examples)? I found the CirrusSearchScoreBuilder page [1], > which implies it is possible to modify how search

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2018-10-31

2018-11-02 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hello all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Following up on the Technical Conference in Portland (aka TechConf aka WMTC18). Some outcomes: -- We discussed the idea of sharding the revision table, with the big question being what key to shard on. Options include page ID