Greetings, Here is the Discovery weekly update for 2017-11-27. As always, feedback and questions are welcome.

== Discussions ==

=== Search === * More work has been done on upgrading elasticsearch to 5.5.x [0] * We re-indexed English language wikis to incorporate the Katakana and Hiragana searches [1] * Issues were found where search.wikimedia.org was the source of lots of 500 errors, it's been resolved [2] * Indexing wikidata descriptions has been enabled (but still working on using that in the search) [3] [4]

=== Analysis === * Chelsy's analysis is complete for testing on 18 wikis with > 1% of search traffic [5] [6] [7]

=== Portal === * The name change from "Sámegiella" to "Davvisámegiella" has been pushed into production on Nov 20 [8] * The portal translations and stats have been updated — via our new automated process (it's still a work in process) [9] [10]

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178411 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179945 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179266 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176903 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178851 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176493 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176493 [7] https://analytics.wikimedia.org/datasets/discovery/reports/Experiement_with_... [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178981 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142582

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Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation