Greetings,

I hope you had a good week.

Here are the updates from the Discovery department for the week.

* Wikipedia.org portal A/B test for adding in descriptive text to the sister wiki links went live on May 3, 2016.

* Updated statistics for wiktionary.org on May 3, 2016

* Released a few minor fixes to the Portal on May 3, 2016

* New version of Blazegraph and WDQS deployed, including geospatial search.

* New completion suggester code was reverted from planned ElasticSearch 2.x release, affecting our plans for runtime updates to suggester.

* It is now possible to use SPARQL queries from interactive graphs.

* Deb attended the Reading department offsite this week. Initial response was that it was a great opportunity to learn and discovery new ways we can collaborate in the future.

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Feedback and suggestions on this weekly update are welcome.

The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on Mediawiki.org:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

Yours,

Chris Koerner

Community Liaison - Discovery

Wikimedia Foundation