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_-_August_2016
[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_Changes_-_A_Retrospective_Statistical_Analysis.pdf
[7] https://github.com/wikimedia-research/Discovery-Research-Portal/blob/master/Analyses/Pageviews%20Rise/README.md
[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

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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation