Greetings, This week is chock full of updates from Discovery. As always, feedback and questions are welcome.

= Discussions =

== Search == * Updated the search results page because the content overflows page boundaries [1] * Add accent squashing to Russian/Cyrillic analyser (with tests) [2] * Fixed Cyrillic 'Е' and 'Ё' equivalence not found by search [3] * Decided on the outcome of the recent BM25 A/B test, what our next steps on using BM25 will be [4] * Fixed issue where the search page content overflows the page boundaries on various browsers [5] * Updated where users prefer pages in their language in multilingual wikis [6]

Search tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016: * Put SITENAME in search box placeholder "searchsuggest-search" like in MobileFrontend's "mobile-fronted-placeholder [7] * Integrate "did you mean" data collection into search satisfaction schema [8]

== Analysis == * Completed analysis of the results of BM25 AB test (final report) [9] [10] * Search results page: how many visitors are on mobile vs desktop [11] - Mikhail ran a hive query for the last couple of weeks and discovered: * Analyze the variance of user-agent's, country, and other useful metrics of google referred traffic with and without a search query available in referrer [12] ** this was to analyze what the difference is between the requests that have a search term in the query and those that do not, to determine if those queries could be used as a representative sample. Turns out, they're not relevant at all. * Investigate recent spike in pageviews on wikipedia.org portal page [13] ** there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of page views since middle of Sep 2016 to the portal--it turns out that this increase is due to various issues: school starting up again, increasing bot traffic, and possibly several agencies/companies that might have loaded 'golden' copies of software onto their employees phones that have wikipedia.org as the default home page of their Android phone browsers.

== Portal == * Updated articles by languages [14] * Centered 'the free encyclopedia' phrase on mobile devices [15] * Fixed the language link that broke unevenly [16] * Updated the portal text to use the new, approved shade of blue (partially completed) [17] * Fixed where `.lang-list-button` doesn't feature focus state [18]

Portal updates that need code review: * update logo for new branding guidelines [19] * add information for Wikipedia / Wikimedia apps availability [20]

== Interactive == * Maps with geoshapes now have a link to Wikidata item or query in the bottom attribution text (i.e.: externalData should show up as data source in credits) [21] * Migrated all map usage from "href" to "service" external data (about 50 pages) [22] * Simplified (and normalized) ExternalData parsing in Kartographer [23] * Geoshapes service URL is hardcoded [24] * Refactor data loader into a separate lib, as both Kartotherian (snapshot) and Kartographer need identical functionality, for a given map, we need to provide a fully expanded (no externalData) GeoJSON [25] * Fixed where failed ExternalData requests result in all maps on page being completely broken [26] * Set "maxzoom" to 14 on osm.tm2source, based on community feedback [27] * Defined KPIs and other interesting maps statistics about how we would like to gather to track and improve maps [28] * Ensure Maps servers can be installed easily (automation + documentation) [29] * maps-test* hosts running low on space [30] * Updated to postgresql 9.4.9 on all maps servers [31] * Created a pipeline for supplying data to static map service (Here is a sample URL) [32] [33] * Error "Maximum zoom is 18" (updated logging to be an 'info' message rather than an error) [34] * Fixed where the Sparql-based externalData maps are broken [35]

Interactive tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016: * <mapframe> maximize button sometimes doesn't work [36] * buildHtml() should parse messages in parser output language [37]

= Other Noteworthy Stuff = * The Search team created a new ticket to note what will be 'live' in production during the next full re-indexing: [Recurring task] CirrusSearch: what is updated during re-indexing [38] * Request for translation sent for Update CirrusSearch documentation [39]

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138108 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102298 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124592 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147008 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138108 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68829 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144640 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138087 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143589 [10] https://wikimedia-research.github.io/Discovery-Search-Test-BM25/ [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147513 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128146 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146214 [14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143241 [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144007 [17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146231 [18] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143127 [19] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144834 [20] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137495 [21] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145109 [22] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147530 [23] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147128 [24] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146494 [25] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147078 [26] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146400 [27] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147698 [28] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144239 [29] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138501 [30] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146848 [31] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138276 [32] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133247 [33] http://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,1,0,0,1000x1000.png?domain=www.mediaw... [34] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146805 [35] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148237 [36] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147987 [37] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148082 [38] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147505: [39] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141156

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