Hi, Here is the weekly status update from the Discovery team. Feedback and questions are welcome.

== Discussions ==

=== Search === * Erik turned off the interleaved search results test and the search relevance test [0] [1] * Jan completed a minor update to the UI of the sister project snippets [2] * Erik continued work on mitigating future occurrences of search latency degradation [3]

=== Analysis === * Mikhail finished up the analysis for the first two A/B tests for the search relevance testing (grading by humans) [4] [5] * Chelsy put the final touches on the explore similar A/B test analysis [6] [7] * Mikhail reviewed an upcoming patch to add purge info for the Kartographer schema [8]

=== Maps === * Gehel aligned the maps* and maps-test* configurations to be the same [9] * After many discussions on what is a reasonable per-IP ratelimit for maps, decisions have been made and was promoted to production on Sep 4 [10]

== Other Noteworthy Stuff == * Trey wrote a post for the WIkimedia Blog: "Wikipedia, search, and the 'Цкщтп' keyboard" [11]

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171214 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171742 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171804 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169498 [4] https://wikimedia-research.github.io/Discovery-Search-Adhoc-SurveyMVP/ [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171740 [6] https://wikimedia-research.github.io/Discovery-Search-Test-ExploreSimilar/ [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164857 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171622 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169082 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169175 [11] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/08/28/wikipedia-search-phonetic-keyboards/

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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