Search Platform/Weekly Updates/2025-05-16
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Highlights
Shipped: did we release anything this week?
- N/A
Blockers: does this essential workstream have any unresolved blockers or dependencies? is anything preventing us from doing our work?
- N/A
Lessons learned: Did we learn anything in the course of doing this work that can be applied to other work?
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Community collab: Did we do anything in this essential workstream this week in collaboration with the community or because the community asked us to?
- Incident leading to incomplete index for title suggestions - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2025-05-09_Missing_autocomplete_indices
Title suggestion indices were only partially generated for a few wikis, leading to only some of the pages being searchable through the auto completion search. This was reported by our users. This is related to the current migration to OpenSearch migration.
What else was accomplished in this essential workstream this week?
Sankey diagram
- Nice demo on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F59944900
Misc / Operations
- Incident leading to incomplete index for title suggestions - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2025-05-09_Missing_autocomplete_indices
- Wikipedia lacks some search results in search suggestions - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393662
- Dated elections no longer top results in search preview on en.wikipedia - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393635
- InvalidArgumentException: Duplicate field labels for model wikibase-mediainfo - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394274 (fixed by WMDE)
- CirrusSearch\Api\CheckSanityTest::testProblems is failing on CheckUser builds - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393901 (fixed by Trust & Safety team)
- iOS converts quotation marks into curly quotation marks - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T385525 (fixed by Web Team)
- www.wikipedia.org: prefilling the search box with the "search" URL parameter does not work - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318285 (fixed by Service Ops)