Greetings, I hope you had a good week.
Here are the updates from the Discovery department for the week.
* Wikipedia.org portal A/B test for adding in descriptive text to the sister wiki links https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131238 went live on May 3, 2016. * Updated statistics for wiktionary.org https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 on May 3, 2016 * Released a few minor fixes to the Portal on May 3, 2016 * New version of Blazegraph and WDQS deployed, including geospatial search https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/User_Manual#Geospatial_search . * New completion suggester code was reverted from planned ElasticSearch 2.x release https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2016-May/001085.html, affecting our plans for runtime updates to suggester. * It is now possible to use SPARQL queries https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126741 from interactive graphs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo. * Deb attended the Reading department offsite this week. Initial response was that it was a great opportunity to learn and discovery new ways we can collaborate in the future.
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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