This is the weekly update for the week starting 05 December. As always, feedback and questions are welcome.

==Highlights==

* Load tests for cross-project searching were completed successfully. [0] We are now testing how many results are produced for typical queries as a first step towards figuring out how relevant the results are. [1]

* Released tabular and map data namespaces to Commons, after reviewing implementation, consulting legal, enabling shared geojson data storage, and adding metrics tracking. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

=== Search ===

* We've put together a draft proposal for how to deal with the interaction of all the possible additional search options—suggestions, quote-stripping, "wrong keyboard", language ID, etc.—to have a more co-ordinated conversation about all this. Comments on the talk page there are welcome. [10]

* Load tests for cross-project searching were completed successfully. [11] We are now testing how many results are produced for typical queries as a first step towards figuring out how relevant the results are. [12]

* Upgraded to Java 8 in preparation for upgrading ElasticSearch next quarter. [13]

* Performed some refactoring to improve interwiki searching. [14]

* Improved handling of characters containing diacritics or accents. [15] [16]

* Added support for minimum query length to detect the language of the query. When a minimum length is eventually chosen, this will solve edge cases where some very short queries and queries consisting just of numbers could produce unexpected results. [17]

* Fixed an edge case where third-party users of CirrusSearch could get an exception when building a completion suggester index. [18]

=== Analysis ===

* Fixed an error with installing R package Boom (& bsts) on stat1002 (but can on stat1003) [19]

=== Portal ===

* Add node 6 compatibility to Portal build tasks [20]

=== Interactive ===

* Enhance Report Updater to be able to send data to graphite [21]

* Increase user sampling rate [22]

* Investigate ClearTables [23]

* Bug fixed: Closing maps by going back doesn't always work [24]

* Updated and adapted Tabular Data to match published formats [25]

* Updated Legal wording update for tabular and map data release [26]