Hello,
This is a quick summary of some of the things happening around Discovery in
the past week. Note: This is our first week trying something like this.
Feedback and suggestions are welcome.
==Events and News==
* Completion Suggester will be coming to a few of the smaller wikis starting
on March 10th
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Work/Completion_Suggester_inital_rollout>
==Other Noteworthy Stuff==
* Interesting article from former WMF staffer Nik Everett (now at Elastic)
on Loading Wikipedia's Search Index for Testing
<https://www.elastic.co/blog/loading-wikipedia>.
*
Wikipedia.org portal page update!
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-March/083269.html>
==Did you know?==
* Wikidata Query Service now has over 1 billion data elements (triples)
<https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-query-service?panelId=7&fullscreen>
.
==Development==
* Measuring scoring changes to search engine relevance based on user
behavior
* Upcoming AB test measure the effect of changing the boost on search
phrase matching (brought to you by new measurement above)
View the full update on-wiki at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2016_03_11
Help contribute to next week's update at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/Next
--
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
P.S. A big thanks to Lydia and the other Wikidata folks for leading the
way. I unabashedly borrowed many templates from their weekly status updates
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates>.