Hello,

This is a quick summary of some of the things happening around Discovery in the past week. Note: This is our first week trying something like this. Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

==Events and News==

* Completion Suggester will be coming to a few of the smaller wikis starting on March 10th

==Other Noteworthy Stuff==

* Interesting article from former WMF staffer Nik Everett (now at Elastic) on Loading Wikipedia's Search Index for Testing.

* Wikipedia.org portal page update!

==Did you know?==

* Wikidata Query Service now has over 1 billion data elements (triples).

==Development==

* Measuring scoring changes to search engine relevance based on user behavior

* Upcoming AB test measure the effect of changing the boost on search phrase matching (brought to you by new measurement above)

View the full update on-wiki at:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2016_03_11

Help contribute to next week's update at:

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

Yours,

Chris Koerner

Community Liaison - Discovery

Wikimedia Foundation

P.S. A big thanks to Lydia and the other Wikidata folks for leading the way. I unabashedly borrowed many templates from their weekly status updates.