Heya,

Below you'll find the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week starting 2018-02-05.

As always, feedback and questions welcome.

== Discussions ==

=== Search === * Gehel took on the task of porting elasticsearch metrics to Prometheus [0] * Erik investigated a replacement for our automated relevance labeling and created a potential summer of code task [1]

== Other Noteworthy Stuff == * Trey deployed Cyrillic/Latin transliteration (using Language Converter [2]) for Crimean Tatar–language wikis.[3]

== Did you know? == * There are an estimated 7,000+ languages [4] spoken or signed in the world. Over 800 of them are found in Papua New Guinea, [5] making it the most linguistically diverse place on earth. The most widely used language of PNG is Tok Pisin, [6] which is a creole language, [7] which is a language derived from a mixture of other languages. Tok Pisin takes much of its vocabulary from English, but also from German, Malay, Portuguese and local Austronesian languages.

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181627 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186742 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Language_conversion [3] https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%C5%9F_Saife [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_languages#Published_lists [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Papua_New_Guinea [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tok_Pisin [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language

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Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation