Hello again, I hope your day is going well.

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

== Search == * Mikhail completed a review of the language-identification A/B test (using TextCat). The full report is on Commons. [1] * Trey has more language-identification–related stuff: notes on how to introduce confidence to TextCat [2] (comments and ideas especially welcome!), a re-review of the languages of poorly performing queries on English Wikipedia [3] using our now-standard corpus creation process (TL; DR: quite similar to earlier results); and similar first-time reports for Portuguese and Russian Wikipedias [4], with Japanese and Indonesian in the pipeline. * Trey and Jan collaborated on a new design of the TextCat demo [5] * Team discussing deploying the new TextCat language detection to wikis: en, it, fr, de, es with more language wikis to come in the future [6] * a cute picture of a cat and dog, just because [7]

== Maps == * Map's geoshapes service is now available in graphs: Interactive maps with regions [8] * Wikivoyage map customizations have moved into the extension code, now available on all WV languages. Customize it via MediaWiki:Kartographer.js and MediaWiki:Kartographer.css [9] [10]

== Wikipedia.org Portal== * Conversation with the community continuing for new Wikipedia.org portal page layout with a new language by article count dropdown. [11] ** The page has been translated, so far, in 8 languages and posted on various Village Pump sites; ** a new working prototype has been added [12] ** and a new mock up design has been added which was based off of community feedback. [13] * Released findings and conclusions of the recent survey ran on the Wikipedia.org portal page - how did you arrive at Wikipedia - that also contains good feedback on the portal design page, the sister project links with descriptive text, search and usage on various platforms. [14] * Conversation with the community on handling search queries with question marks also continues [15] ** this page has been translated into 5 additional languages * Team conversations started about how to package portions of the wikipedia portal page to make it easier to re-use across all projects that want it. [16] * Team conversations started about how to automate stats updates on the wikipedia portal page [17]

== Events and News== * Erik was promoted to Senior Software Engineer, yay! * Discovery Quarterly review was held [18] * Geo Search was launched by the Discovery Search team on behalf of the Reading team [19]

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Report_on_Cirrus_Search_TextCat_AB_T... [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_and_Confidenc... [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_Re-optimizati... [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_Optimization_... [5] https://tools.wmflabs.org/textcatdemo/ [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121541 [7] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foxteri%C3%A9r_a_koc%C3%BAr.jpg [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Graph:Country_with_regions_and_capit... [9] https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Kartographer.js [10] https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Kartographer.css [11] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_updated_page_layout [12] https://people.wikimedia.org/~jdrewniak/collapsed-languages/index.html [13] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia.org_portal_more_languages_butt... [14] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Discovery_-_Wikipedia.org_Portal_Study_F... [15] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discovery/Handling_question_marks_in_search_... [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136151 [17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140159 [18] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gVXPwLtUZc1H5V82wv1TJU-abmmfaZkXYloz... [19] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#Geo_Search

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

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