Hello,
Apologies for the late email.

Here are the updates from the Discovery department for this past week. 

* Search: stripping of '?' in search queries released to production [1]
* Search: namespace missing when search results from different language are shown released to production [2]
* Portal: updated stats on wikipedia.org [3]
* Portal: fixed language links that are less than 1,000 that were showing as zero [4]
* Portal: community member fix pushed to production (dark background in search box on Linux OS) [5]
* Analysis: updated geographical breakdown to filter out larger countries on portal dashboard

[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2016-August/001231.html
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141503
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139350
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139349
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139548


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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

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

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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation