This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-10-24

• Show globe icon 🌐 next to all <maplinks> links
• Request for Comment - All map location names should be shown in the user's language
• Merge Kartographer with commons-on-osm
• Discussion and recommendations for the overall usability of the new search engine results page with the Design team

• Don't show the "results from other projects" box if empty
• Check to see if popularity_score is wrong in a lot of articles
• Disable highlighting on insource queries if experimental highlighter in not turned on
• Reindex search cluster for BM25 test
• Search works incorrectly when the query contains words used as namespace names and a colon (:)
• ask for translations for 'showing results from' (Polish, Dutch, Arabic and Chinese)
• Configure varnish to include wdqs nodes in codfw
• Started second BM25 A/B test (ja, zh, th)
• Turn on second BM25 test
• Fix in_array() expects parameter 2 to be an array or collection in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.28.0-wmf.22/extensions/CirrusSearch/includes/Search/RescoreBuilders.php on line 160
• Communicate to community the upcoming BM25 release
• [Recurring task] CirrusSearch: what is updated during re-indexing
• Review and fix the description of autocomplete profiles (completion suggester) in the Search preference tab
• Enable cross-wiki backend search functionality on it.wikipedia - we made it faster
• Enable GC (garbage collection) logs on Elasticsearch JVM
• Argument 2 passed to SearchEngine::processCompletionResults() must be an instance of SearchSuggestionSet, Elastica\Response in SearchEngine class
• [bug] cirrussearch fatal in 1.28.0-wmf.23 -

• Compare ZRR for query features across other search engines
• Investigate what we'd need to do to ignore double quotes in search queries
• Maps Dashboard: fix and update
• Analyze the variance of user-agent's, country, and other useful metrics of google referred traffic with and without a search query available in referrer
• Add a PaulScore approximation to discovery.wmflabs.org

Portal updates that got code reviews after rebasing - thanks!

• update logo for new branding guidelines
• add information for Wikipedia / Wikimedia apps availability

• Deprecate <slippymap> provided by MapSources in favor of Kartographer's <mapframe>
• Illegal and unheralded removal of MapSourcesHooks::wfgeoLink function hook on dewikivoyage
• More details button should appear when map is loaded
• maps1002 does not run latest kartotherian
• Snapshot service not working with empty groups param
• Kartographer no longer displays external data credits
• Graph behaves differently on PHP7 - was fixed automagically
• <mapframe>/<maplink>: Invalid GeoJSON code in wgKartographerLiveData prevents drawing of maps at Wikivoyage
• Don't pollute history with map hashes
• Fix Governor's demo - party affiliations (needed a fix with WDQS SPARQL query - thanks, Stas!)
• Show wikidata query results as map markers
• Support geomask externaldata in Kartotherian
• Geoshape service should return map mask polygon with holes

Interactive tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Nov 1, 2016:

• Use maps snapshot service until user interacts (click/mouseover?)
• Geoshape service should return map mask polygon with holes
• Show preview with static maps is broken
• [Bug] GeoData\Searcher fatal error in 1.28-wmf.23
• Support data.get() with optional language param
• Remove static background from mapframes after going dynamic

• WV layers dropdown bug on vem.wmflabs.org
• Maps - move traffic to eqiad instead of codfw
• Configure new maps servers in eqiad
• Unmet dependencies around postgis apt packages on maps* servers
• increase replication factor for system_auth keyspace on maps / cassandra
• Upgrade PostGIS on maps servers to version 2.2+
• Maps-test was created with incorrect initial encoding
• Update Node on Maps to v4.6.0
• elastic2020 is powered off and does not want to restart
• Maps - error when doing initial tiles generation: "Error: could not create converter for SQL_ASCII""

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