Hello,

Here is this week's update from the Discovery department.

* Closed out the latest A/B test for adding descriptive text [1] on the Portal on May 10 * Started a short banner survey [2] on the wikipedia.org portal page on May 11 * Stalled on updating wikipedia.org portal [3] stats but hope to be resolved soon (with DBA assistance) * Created a testing dev workflow page [4] for wikipedia.org portal site A/B testing * Released Discernatron! [5]. You can help make search better by grading search results. * Presented geo boosted full text search [6], geo queries in WDQS [7], and updates to mapping for wikivoyage [8] in the monthly CREDIT showcase [9].

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131238 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134512 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal_A/B_testing/dev_process [5] https://discernatron.wmflabs.org/ [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwTDDWjxoek&feature=youtu.be&t=18m45... [7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwTDDWjxoek&feature=youtu.be&t=21m16... [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwTDDWjxoek&feature=youtu.be&t=27m31... [9] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:CREDIT_-_May_2016.webm

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Feedback and suggestions on this weekly update are welcome!

The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on Mediawiki.org:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates