Hello,

Here is this week's update from the Discovery department.

* Trey completed a quick survey [1] of the effects of removing quotes and trailing question marks from poorly-performing queries.

** There's now a Phab ticket [2] to look into removing training question marks from queries.

* Released language detection and re-sorting of top 10 languages to wikipedia.org portal [3]

* Draft completion of analysis on how long a typical session is on the wikipedia portal [4]

* Chris (our community liaison) presented [5] at EMWCon [6] on what Technical Collaboration does for * MediaWiki admins and developers. There was a small mention of the work of Discovery, which was well received.

* Jan did a CREDIT showcase demo [7] for the new language detection on the portal

* Trey did a CREDIT showcase presentation [8] for the TextCat language detection demo

** The [TextCat] demo is available to try. [9]

* Katie Horn started her first week as Director, Head of Discovery

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

[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133711

[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133432

[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134301

[5] http://livestream.com/internetsociety/emwcon/videos/124154153

[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2016

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s81r17M-wk&t=4m18s

[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s81r17M-wk&t=15s

[9] https://tools.wmflabs.org/textcatdemo/

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Feedback and suggestions on this weekly update are welcome!

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