From the Wikimedia Foundation Discovery department here's this week's updates.
** contributing file [1]
** ready file [2]
** portal page code license [3]
** updated the portal page with a share-alike license link [4]
* Portal team launched a new A/B test for collapsing the long list of languages by article count [5]
* Analysis team finished research on how long a 'typical' session lasts on the portal [6]
* Analysis team helped with defining better data collection for the Search team's TextCat A/B test [7]
* Elasticsearch clusters for search have been upgraded to version 2.3.3 with almost no user impact (Translation memories were unavailable for a short period of time). This opens the way to new cool features!
* Maps has launched for English Wikivoyage (demo) [8]
** The map can be made full screen, has layers, gets shown when clicking links in text
** Lua is heavily used for geojson generation and conversion of the existing templates [9]
** Community has reported a large number of suggestions and bugs at the Traveller's pub [10]
*3 new maps servers have been installed in EQIAD datacenter and are being configured
= Other noteworthy stuff=
* Portal team will soon re-launch a survey with new/improved bucketing to get more responses on the question of 'how did visitors arrive at the portal?' [11]
* The Reading and Portal teams have been collaborating on designs for adding app download badges on the portal [12]
* The Internationalization and Portal teams have been collaborating on how to add in translations to the sister project descriptive text phrases [13]
* Data visualization hackathon is happening in Seattle on July 22nd. Lets build beautiful graphs and charts for Wikipedia. [14]