Hello again,

I hope your day is going well.

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

== Search ==

* Mikhail completed a review of the language-identification A/B test (using TextCat). The full report is on Commons. [1]

* Trey has more language-identification–related stuff: notes on how to introduce confidence to TextCat [2] (comments and ideas especially welcome!), a re-review of the languages of poorly performing queries on English Wikipedia [3] using our now-standard corpus creation process (TL; DR: quite similar to earlier results); and similar first-time reports for Portuguese and Russian Wikipedias [4], with Japanese and Indonesian in the pipeline.

* Trey and Jan collaborated on a new design of the TextCat demo [5]

* Team discussing deploying the new TextCat language detection to wikis: en, it, fr, de, es with more language wikis to come in the future [6]

* a cute picture of a cat and dog, just because [7]

== Maps ==

* Map's geoshapes service is now available in graphs: Interactive maps with regions [8]

* Wikivoyage map customizations have moved into the extension code, now available on all WV languages. Customize it via MediaWiki:Kartographer.js and MediaWiki:Kartographer.css [9] [10]

== Wikipedia.org Portal==

* Conversation with the community continuing for new Wikipedia.org portal page layout with a new language by article count dropdown. [11]

** The page has been translated, so far, in 8 languages and posted on various Village Pump sites;

** a new working prototype has been added [12]

** and a new mock up design has been added which was based off of community feedback. [13]

* Released findings and conclusions of the recent survey ran on the Wikipedia.org portal page - how did you arrive at Wikipedia - that also contains good feedback on the portal design page, the sister project links with descriptive text, search and usage on various platforms. [14]

* Conversation with the community on handling search queries with question marks also continues [15]

** this page has been translated into 5 additional languages

* Team conversations started about how to package portions of the wikipedia portal page to make it easier to re-use across all projects that want it. [16]

* Team conversations started about how to automate stats updates on the wikipedia portal page [17]

== Events and News==

* Erik was promoted to Senior Software Engineer, yay!

* Discovery Quarterly review was held [18]

* Geo Search was launched by the Discovery Search team on behalf of the Reading team [19]

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Report_on_Cirrus_Search_TextCat_AB_Test_-_Language_Detection_on_English,_French,_Spanish,_Italian,_and_German_Wikipedias.pdf

[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_and_Confidence

[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_Re-optimization_for_enwiki

[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_Optimization_for_ptwiki_ruwiki_jawiki_and_idwiki

[5] https://tools.wmflabs.org/textcatdemo/

[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121541

[7] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foxteriér_a_kocúr.jpg