Hello again,
This week saw a few updates from around the department. 

==Highlights==
* A workshop was held in Germany on advanced search syntax on Wikipedia. [0]
* Added draft how to guides for using maps, maplink, mapframe and map template as well as the terms of use landing page for the Maps project. [1] [2] [3] [4]

==Discussions==
* Maps and graphs - should there be 'text' and a frame: Request for Comment [5]
* Analysis discussion about how to [Dashboard] make backfilling of dashboard data easier [6] 


=== Analysis  ===
* Wrapping up the final report for results of the second BM25 test [7]
* Completed analysis for looking at WDQS traffic data to find parallel connection patterns [8]

=== Portal ===
* Portal language by articles were updated on Nov 22 to note that dewiki is now over 2 million articles, yay! [9]

=== Interactive ===
* Bug fix Interactive mapframe not interactive in embed mode [10] 
* Minor icon update Reduce the size of the hole in the maplink icon [11]
* Updating colors to be in alignment Align Kartographer to WikimediaUI color palette [12]
* Work in progress: updating Grafana for better KPI tracking [13]
* Ops work: Deploy libmapnik3.0 deb package to all maps servers [14]
* Updated logging for KPIs by implementing second phase of map event logging [15]
* Bug fix where the "marker-click" event sampling gets overriden - will go out during week of Dec 6 [16]


== Other Noteworthy Stuff  == 
* Fun music and neoswing [17] 

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Workshop_spezialisierte_Suche
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/how_to:_maps
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/how_to:_embedded_maps
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/how_to:_map_template
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/terms_of_use
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148706
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150915
[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147500
[8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149963
[9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546#2815592
[10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150464
[11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150924
[12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150497
[13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149723
[14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150722
[15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149834
[16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152162
[17] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ueJ4-lTa1s

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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


Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation