Here is the Discovery status update for the week starting 19 September. Feedback and questions are welcome.
== Discussions ==
* The team had several conversations about elastic search things (ICU_folding) and external referrers and how to get db access for investigations as well as mock design for displaying the upcoming cross-wiki search results
* Data Demolition Derby was completed for cleaning up old Qualtrics survey data
== Events and News ==
== Interactive ==
* Geoshapes service can now get both polygons (e.g. city outline) and lines (eg. rivers and roads) by their Wikidata ID
* "properties" in GeoJSON now apply to the ExternalData geoshapes
== Search ==
* CompletionSuggester with defaultsort demo available, feedback welcome [1]
* Completed analysis of squashing Russian stress accents and folding ё to е for Russian wikis. [2]
* Updated ElasticSearch document versioning in CirrusSearch [3]
** This is contingent on a full cluster restart and a deployment of the configuration change [4]
* Updated Completion Suggester code for searching a subpage title using the search bar [5]
* Added position increment gap to fields where positions are stored [6]
* Documented our usage of the term 'PaulScore' [7]
* Upgraded ElasticSearch and plugins to 2.3.5 [8]
* Monitor the usage of in memory data structures used by ElasticSearch [9]
== Analysis ==
* Completed analysis to determine if the new Wikipedia.org portal page display caused any pageview decreases to smaller wikis (UK) (analysis html and pdf docs) [10] [11] [12]
* Updated dashboards to allow for easier bookmarking/copying [13]
==Wikidata Query Service==
* Fixed when search for insource:tag finds "<tag>" but not "{{#tag:tag}} [14]
== Wikipedia.org Portal ==
* Requested additional translations from translatewiki [15]
* Optimize the image optimization [16]
== Other Noteworthy Stuff ==
* Yuri and Julien are attending State of the Map 2016 conference in Brussels