Search Platform/Weekly Updates/2025-12-05

Highlights

Wrong keyboard detection (“Do What I Mean”) for Hebrew, Russian, and Georgian has been deployed and well received. Custom community widgets addressing this issue have been retired in favor of the new built-in feature.

We also set up an OpenSearch 3 cluster to collaborate with Machine Learning and Research teams on vector search experiments. The team successfully ingested English Wikipedia dumps and performed initial queries. Further work is planned to refine performance and integration.

Shipped: did we release anything this week?

• T408737 Enable Georgian Transliteration Second Try mappings for autocomplete (Resolved)
• T408734 Enable RU & HE DWIM-style Second Try mappings for autocomplete (Resolved)
• T410681 Setup opensearch 3 on relforge servers (Resolved)
• T407520 Deploy various plugins to fix various things (Resolved)
• T408154 AB Test doubling near match field weights on commonswiki (Open)

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?

N/A

Community collab: Did we do anything in this essential workstream this week in collaboration with the community or because the community asked us to?

N/A

What else was accomplished in this essential workstream this week?

• T411112 Clean up documentation for regex searches (Resolved)
• T410886 GeoData wikivoyage queries return some results without coordinates (Declined)
• T408533 Initial task generation and ingestion to Cassandra and Search weight tags (Resolved)
• T410965 Using the search field on mobile does not yield suggestions until after a space has been inserted (Duplicate)