Hello,
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

[1] http://mw-sug-subpages-relforge.wmflabs.org/w/default_sort_demo.html
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Removing_Stress_Accents_and_Folding_Ё_to_Е_for_Russian_Wikis
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144039
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146210
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123015
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145405
[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144243
[8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145404
[9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144387
[10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143853
[11] http://wikimedia-research.github.io/Discovery-Research-Portal/ukrainian/
[12] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Wikipedia.org_Portal_and_Ukrainian_Wikipedia.pdf
[13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145478
[14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145023
[15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143338
[16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143208


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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