Hello,

Here is this week's update from the Discovery department.

* Closed out the latest A/B test for adding descriptive text [1] on the Portal on May 10
* Started a short banner survey [2] on the wikipedia.org portal page on May 11
* Stalled on updating wikipedia.org portal [3] stats but hope to be resolved soon (with DBA assistance)
* Created a testing dev workflow page [4] for wikipedia.org portal site A/B testing
* Released Discernatron! [5]. You can help make search better by grading search results.
* Presented geo boosted full text search [6], geo queries in WDQS [7], and updates to mapping for wikivoyage [8] in the monthly CREDIT showcase [9].

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131238
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134512 
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal_A/B_testing/dev_process
[5] https://discernatron.wmflabs.org/
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwTDDWjxoek&feature=youtu.be&t=18m45s
[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwTDDWjxoek&feature=youtu.be&t=21m16s
[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwTDDWjxoek&feature=youtu.be&t=27m31s
[9] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:CREDIT_-_May_2016.webm

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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

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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation