Sometime on December 8th (import started early dec 8 UTC, and is estimating ~10 hours runtime) the initial popularity score for enwiki should be populated into the estest machines on labs. This is populated into the "popularity_score" field of the page type in enwiki_content. This should be usable to do initial tests and figuring out how best to integrate the score into the completion suggester and the full text search scoring.
If reasonable this can be split into two tasks, I wasn't sure.