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_-_-sotmus_2016.pdf

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kscsp0YS7nw&index=35&list=PLqjPa29lMiE3eR-gK80irr3xdUiRbIMeg

[4] https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/217682?t=6d7mfq#.V5uEQu3L9z0

[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Top_Unsuccessful_Search_Queries

[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

Yours,

Chris Koerner

Community Liaison - Discovery

Wikimedia Foundation