Happy Friday,
Here is this week's update from the Discovery department. It's a big one, so grab your favorite drink and settle in.
== Events and News == * Interactive team plans to deploy <maplink> support to all Wikipedia next week. T144062 [1]
== Other Noteworthy Stuff == * Updated the Wikipedia.org Portal page with new information on quarterly goals and recent production releases [2] [3] * Updated the Help:CirrusSearch documentation to reflect the great work Cspiral did in organizing the information in a more approachable and logical way. Kept existing translation tags in place and have asked for review. This is in preparation for this small fix to the "Help" link on every * * * * * Wikimedia Special:Search page. [4] [5] * Analysis: completed a retro of how the wikipedia.org portal page has evolved [6] * Analysis: completed a review of why portal pageviews increased in June/July 2016 (phab ticket) [7] [8] * Analysis: updated pageview counting on the portal dashboard (dashboard page showing new documented changes) [9] [10] * Analysis: added an easy to use page to show metrics year over year and month over month (dashboard page) [11] [12] * Analysis: added a portal dashboard page to show clicks/users by language (dashboard page) [13] [14] * Analysis: updated dashboard to take into account a new schema for mobile app events (dashboard page) [15] [16] * Analysis: added DuckDuckGo to the search engine referral dashboard page (dashboard page) [17] [18] * Portal: added several new small visual enhancements and optimizations for wikipedia.org along with an article stats and translations updates for code review [19] * Portal: Clean up project portals (community involvement) [20] * Search: deployed ascii folding / stemming re-ordering changes [21] * Search: disable an old search schema since a new one has already been deployed [22] * Search: implement an updated full text search query [23] * Search: Refactor GeoData elasticsearch mapping using the new search field definitions from core [24] * Search: update wildcard queries for BM25 [25] * Search: Centralize document id and namespace generation [26] * Search: Enable BM25 by default in cirrus and evaluate impact [27] * Search: Add a "reverse" suggestion field [28] * Interactive: Large number of small maps usability fixes T144008, T143883, T137357, T143179, T144001 [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] * Interactive: Added a box frame and captioning to <mapframe> (similar to framed images) [34]
== Did you know? == * Friday, August 26th is National Dog Day - go pet a pooch! [35]
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144062 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal#Current_Quarter_Goals [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal#Portal_Updates:_April_-_... [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141003 [6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Impact_of_Wikipedia.org_Portal_Chang... [7] https://github.com/wikimedia-research/Discovery-Research-Portal/blob/master/... [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143045 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143064 [10] http://discovery-beta.wmflabs.org/portal/#pageview_tab [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124098 [12] http://discovery.wmflabs.org/metrics/#monthly_metrics [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140816 [14] http://discovery.wmflabs.org/portal/#languages_visited [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143447 [16] http://discovery.wmflabs.org/metrics/#app_events [17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143287 [18] http://discovery.wmflabs.org/external/#traffic_by_engine [19] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/306241 [20] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135929 [21] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142721 [22] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130321 [23] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128073 [24] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139021 [25] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143537 [26] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139496 [27] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139576 [28] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107006 [29] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144008 [30] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143883 [31] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137357 [32] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143179 [33] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144001 [34] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128913 [35] https://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=national+dog+day+images
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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