Hello,
I hope you are doing OK.
Here are the updates from the Discovery department for this week.
* Last weekend, Interactive team had a Graph hackathon, and presented maps
at the State of the Maps US conference in Seattle. See slides and
presentation video. [1] [2] [3]
* Discovery is hiring for an Engineering Manager. [4]
* Trey published an investigation of top unsuccessful search queries. [5]
* TextCat language ID and cross-wiki searching production release was
featured in a WMF blog post, twitter and Facebook. [6] [7] [8]
* here's a picture of a couple of sleeping puppies to smile at [9]
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/DataViz_Seattle_hackathon
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_maps_presentation_-_-sotm…
[3]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kscsp0YS7nw&index=35&list=PLqjPa29l…
[4]
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/217682?t=6d7mfq#.V5uEQu3L9z0
[5]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Top_Unsuccessful_Sea…
[6]
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/27/wikipedia-language-search/
[7]
https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/758397964851159042
[8]
https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/posts/10154269437833346
[9]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sleeping_Pups.jpg
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The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on
Mediawiki.org:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates
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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation