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This is the weekly update from the Discovery department for the week starting 2017-03-20 and the week of 2017-03-27.
* Finished up the analysis of the first A/B test for the sister project search results [10] [11]
== Discussions ==
=== Search ===
* Updates from work done in previous weeks (apologies for the delay!):
** Fixed an issue where subpages were mistakenly preferred over parent pages if you didn't type the whole title [0]
** Fixed multiple issues with the how Elasticsearch integrates with the Translate extension [1] [2] [3]
** Test wiki with new Chinese Traditional-to-Simplified conversion, better word segmentation, and using the new BM25 is available in labs. [4] (It has the index and snippets from Chinese Wikipedia, but not the actual articles.) Additional analysis from native-speaker review is also on MediaWiki. More feedback always welcome. [5]
* Fixed regressions which seem to be related to Elasticsearch 5 upgrade:
** Fixed an issue causing language-converted suggestions to not show in the search box [6]
* Fixed an issue where using certain special characters in advanced search syntax would unexpectedly give zero results [7]
* Finished the second A/B test for the sister project search results.
* The analysis of new Ukrainian language analyzer is on MediaWiki, and there's lots of good discussion on Phabricator. More feedback welcome! [8] [9]
=== Analysis ===
* Finished up the analysis of the first A/B test for the sister project search results (task T156300) read it here [10] [11]
=== Wikidata Query Service ===
* Enabled SPARQL Federation [12]
* Enabled parametrized query templates in the GUI [13]