Hello, A few quick updates form the Discovery department this week. Feedback and questions are welcome.

== Highlights == * Mikhail sent out an email describing the cool new backend update that all the dashboards got - from Vagrant to Puppet [0]

== Discussions == * A letter from some of the attendees of Iberoconf 2017 detailing requests to the Foundation for more and better communications and translations. [1] [2] * The Analysis team started discussing about adding continuous integration configuration to all wikimedia/discovery analytics repositories [3]

=== Search === * Erik did a lot of intensive research evaluating the libraries for machine learning ranking with LambdaRank and settled on xgboost running over yarn [4] * We are having a lively discussion about how best to utilize the Kuromoji Japanese language analyzer [5]

=== Analysis === * We've updated the dashboards with proper licensing (since it's all open source) so that anyone can use it and / or borrow the code to fix an issue they have [6]

[0] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2017-June/001541.html [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Iberocoop/Buenos_Aires_Letter [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Iberocoop:Iberoconf_2017 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153856 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162061 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166731 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167930

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The archive of all 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