This is the weekly update for the week starting 2017-02-27 and includes work up till 2017-03-13 due to a scheduling error. Apologies for the confusion.
== Highlights ==
*Jan demo'd a new "explore similar" widget during this month's CREDIT showcase [0]
== Discussions ==
* Posted on French, Arabic, German and Russian Wikipedia Village Pumps to ask if there are any issues with A/B testing the sister project search results on them. [1]
=== Search ===
* Finished analysis of potential new Chinese-language analyzers. See T158203. We expect improved word segmentation accuracy, which should lead to better search results, as well as support for searching across Traditional/Simplified character sets. A test index in labs will be available soon. [2]
* Elasticsearch 5 upgrade in progress: the beta cluster is now running the new version. Upgrade of production clusters will start next week.
=== Analysis ===
* Recap of the migration to ReportUpdater and more! [3]
* Analysis of the A/B test for displaying sister projects in search results is ongoing [4]
===Portal ===
* Portal statistics were updated. [5]
* Fix released for bad caching of error page on portal - to be released next week. [6]
* Worked on a few small fixes for the portal to include a few edits on RTL language display on the portal - to be released next week.