Search Platform/Weekly Updates/2026-04-08
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Highlights
Focus is still on OKR work related to Semantic Search. MVP experiment on Android is still running.
- T413969 Make semantic search accessible through Action API (Open)
- T419590 Semantic Search fails on frwiki Special:Search (Open)
- T414095 Configure opensearch ML connectors/models (Open)
- T414091 Import passage vectors into opensearch (Resolved)
- T414623 [Vector Search Estimate resource consumption at scale] (Open)
- T418388 Upgrade DSE k8s opensearch clusters to 3.5.0 (Resolved)
Shipped: did we release anything this week?
- T421763 Migrate beta cluster to OpenSearch 2.x (Declined)
- T420759 Update wmf-opensearch-search-plugins in apt.wikimedia.org to 2.19.5 (Resolved)
- T420407 Migrate opensearch plugins to 2.19.5 (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?
Semantic Search data quality: monitoring/alerting is important, even for temporary experiments. We accidentally only shipped partial indexes (10%) due to a bug in our update pipeline.
Community collab: Did we do anything in this essential workstream this week in collaboration with the community or because the community asked us to?
- T418241 RevisionSearchResultTrait::initFromTitle() crashes on titles that are not proper pages - implemented a community-suggested fix.