Hello everyone, 
Here's the weekly update for Discovery and the last update in June. Can you believe it‽ 

As always, feedback and questions are welcome.


==Discussions==

=== Search ===
* Evaluated several training set sizes for the learning-to-rank models [0]
* Completed several successful load tests on the servers for learning-to-rank query plugin [1]
* Fixed a bug with second try searching using language detection [2]
* Updated CirrusSearch to not depend on spaces to activate proximity rescoring (phrase rescore) [3]
* Explore similar pages, categories and languages A/B test was activated on June 29, 2017 [4]

=== Analysis  ===
* Updated the dashboards polloi package that now allows country names and assigning of ASCII region names [5]

=== Portal ===
* Statistics and translations were updated on the Wikipedia.org portal page on June 27, 2017 [6] [7]

=== Interactive ===
* A bug where coordinates were being passed incorrectly to external map services was fixed in production [8]
* Discussion and a patch uploaded to update Kartographer so that jQuery 3 doesn't break things [9]


[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168664
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169002
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168302
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152094
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149809
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167913
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546
[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142582
[8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160782
[9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168744

 
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The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as "Easy" or "Volunteer needed" in Phabricator.

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R

Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation