Howdy, A few updates this week from across the Discovery department.

== Highlights == *Annual Plan "Collab Jam" took place in the SF offices this week, where lots of conversations were had on how teams within the Foundation can work together in the next fiscal year to do cool things. * ICU Folding is now effective on all English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis. [1] ** Note: please consider asking for this feature if you would like to enable it on a particular language.

== Discussions ==

=== Search === * The new contentmodel search keyword is now operational on commons. [0] * ICU Folding is now effective on all English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis. [1] ** Note: please consider asking for this feature if you would like to enable it on a particular language.

=== Portal === * Had an issue with a bad caching of an error message which resulted in text not being displayed on the wikipedia.org page for a very short time. This will be fixed with a patch. [2] * Article statistics were updated for wikipedia.org, wikiquote.org and wikiversity.org [3]

=== Wikidata Query Service === * Upgraded to Blazegraph 2.1.5 RC, several bugs fixed. * POST is now enabled for WDQS queries. * Started nomination process for federation endpoints. [4]

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156371 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155515 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158782 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_federation_input

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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 - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation