[Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2016-05-16

Hi, Here is this week's update from the Discovery department. * A Wikipedia.org survey was run from May 10 - 17, 2016 to determine how visitors arrived at the portal page. Survey results here. [1] * A Wikipedia.org production release was done on May 18, 2016 which added descriptive text to the sister wiki project links. [2] * WikiVoyage experimental map with custom layers. [3] * Analysis was done for the Portal A/B test for the addition of descriptive text to the sister wiki project links. [4] * Deb will be coordinating with User Research team to get interviews setup for survey responders that want to talk about how they use the wikipedia portal. [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Portal_Survey_-_May_2016.… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal_A/B_testing#A.2FB_test:… [3] https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Travellers%27_pub#Maps_with_extra… [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Descriptive_Text_for_Sister_Project… ---- 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 -- Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation