Hello everyone, Here's the weekly update for Discovery and the last update in June. Can you believe it‽

As always, feedback and questions are welcome.

==Discussions==

=== Search === * Evaluated several training set sizes for the learning-to-rank models [0] * Completed several successful load tests on the servers for learning-to-rank query plugin [1] * Fixed a bug with second try searching using language detection [2] * Updated CirrusSearch to not depend on spaces to activate proximity rescoring (phrase rescore) [3] * Explore similar pages, categories and languages A/B test was activated on June 29, 2017 [4]

=== Analysis === * Updated the dashboards polloi package that now allows country names and assigning of ASCII region names [5]

=== Portal === * Statistics and translations were updated on the Wikipedia.org portal page on June 27, 2017 [6] [7]

=== Interactive === * A bug where coordinates were being passed incorrectly to external map services was fixed in production [8] * Discussion and a patch uploaded to update Kartographer so that jQuery 3 doesn't break things [9]

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168664 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169002 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168302 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152094 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149809 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167913 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142582 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160782 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168744

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The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org:

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

Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as "Easy" or "Volunteer needed" in Phabricator.

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R

Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation