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=18m4…
[7]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwTDDWjxoek&feature=youtu.be&t=21m1…
[8]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwTDDWjxoek&feature=youtu.be&t=27m3…
[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
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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation