Hello!
Here is another weekly update on the work of the Discovery department.
Appologies for the late summary. If you have questions, please ask.
Due to the Developer Summit and WMF All-hands event this coming week, the
next weekly summary will be the week of 16 January.
== Highlights ==
* Secondary search results are now possible over the API! This is currently
used to suggest pages from other language projects that might be relevant
for users. Please review the examples for more information. [0] [1]
* Added cool new to the Metrics dashboard that highlight the selected date
range [2]
* Added a full geographic breakdown to the Portal dashboard to see traffic
and clickthrough rates on
Wikipedia.org portal across all countries [3]
* Added final results of the successful long term testing of the addition
of app and app page links to
wikipedia.org portal page [4]
* OSM now allows users who have a Wikimedia account to log into OSM and
edit the map data, also new guide added. [5]
* Extensions now can define search keywords using
CirrusSearchAddQueryFeatures hook. [6]
== Search ==
* Secondary search results are now possible over the API! This is currently
used to suggest pages from other language projects that might be relevant
for users. Please review the examples for more information. [0] [1]
* Fixed a typo in the search preferences page [7]
* Added support for extensions to register keywords with the search system
[8]
* Migrated some keywords to Extension:GeoData to test keyword registration
support Analysis [9] [10]
* Fixed a data bug where there was a spike in user engagement [11]
== Portal ==
* Updated the stats on
Wikipedia.org to reflect that a couple wiki's that
have recently achieved big goals in stats: Maithili Wikipedia is now over
10,000 articles and Hebrew Wikipedia now has over 200,000 articles. [12]
* Closed out a long term test for adding app and app page links to the
wikipedia.org portal page [13]
== Interactive ==
* Released mapframe to French and Finnish Wikipedias [14] [15]
* Updated attribution for static and dynamic maps [16] [17]
[0]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142795#2923977
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142795
[2]
http://discovery.wmflabs.org/metrics/
[3]
http://discovery.wmflabs.org/portal/#all_country
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146807
[5]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer/OSM%7Chere
[6]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/CirrusSearchAddQueryFeatures
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154532
[8]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152517
[9]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData
[10]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152730
[11]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153887
[12]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546
[13]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137495
[14]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154524
[15]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151591
[16
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151906
[17]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151900
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The full update, and 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 - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation