Hello,

It's Friday where I'm at. I hope you have a good weekend.

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

== Analysis ==

* add a 'most commonly clicked section per visit' metric on Portal dashboard [1] [2]

== Search ==

* a small subsection of the team met to go over the upcoming Discernatron demo / luncheon and how we can improve the user interface for it [3] 

* turned on BM25 A/B test after re-indexing the codfw seach cluster first [4] [5]

* worked on updating the prose and user flow of the Discernatron introduction and instructions page [6] [3]

* added patch to ensure timeouts always work on CirrusSearch [7]

* evaluated BM25 with new fulltext query and weighted sum with PaulScore and Discernatron [8]

* added patch to properly handle acronyms in fulltext query builder [9]

* tested and analyzed the effect of adding ascii-folding to fr.wiki [10]

* Use top_terms_blended_freq for wildcard queries [11]

* updated fulltext query builder to enhance title [12]

* turned off 'did you mean' on Wikidata [13]

== Maps ==

* We tried to enable <maplink> on every Wikipedia, but ran into some blockers. Will try again next week. Track it at phab:T144062 [14]

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141061

[2] http://discovery.wmflabs.org/portal/#most_common

[3] https://discernatron.wmflabs.org/

[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143586

[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143590

[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133359

[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143006

[8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139579

[9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143541

[10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142620

[11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143537

[12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143537

[13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143260

[14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144062

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The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on Mediawiki.org:

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