Howdy, This past week was full of updates from the Discovery department.

= Discussions =

== Search == * Elasticsearch doesn't offer language analyzers for every language that we have wikis in, so sometimes we fall back to a language analyzer of a (linguistically or geopolitically) related language. This can lead to unexpected effects—such as changes in the Russian language analyzer affecting Ukrainian; or changes needed for Ukrainian maybe having to be made in the Russian language analyzer, unless we special-case them by language (which could affect T146358). [1] If you have any thoughts on this or just want to see the fallback language list, head over to the Fallback Languages page and leave a comment, or reply to the Discovery list. [2] * Translate extension updated to allow searches in a specific language (without translations) [3] * Satisfaction schema update for checkin events on if page is visible [4] * Update the ascii folding to preserve original emits that are duplicated tokens for non ascii characters [5] * Update the search api interwiki to only query when srinterwiki=1 is passed [6] * Reduce the number of replicas for some title suggest indices [7]

== Analysis == * Analysis of WDQS geographic breakdown of SPARQL queries [8] * Wikipedia.org Portal Dashboard: investigate spike in languages visited [9] * Wikipedia.org dashboard: minor updates [10] * Bug in current data retrieval script [11] * Add comment to search-related eventlogging in iOS and Android apps to inform Discovery of changes [12]

== Portal == (works in progress, needing code review or waiting to be released into production)

* Improve color palette [13] * Update for new translations [14] * Update articles by language statistics [15] * Test for adding app links to page [16] * Update WMF logo [17] * Fix where a language link broke on two lines [18] * Few other small updates...

== Interactive == * GeoJSON can now contain un-encoded SPARQL (query and ids ExternalData properties): example [19] * There is now "geoshape" and "geoline" types of ExternalData - one is for polygons (e.g. cities, countries), and the other is for lines (roads, rivers). As always, make sure OpenStreetMap has WikidataID attached to be able to use them. * Many minor Kartographer bug fixes [20]

= Events and News == * WikiConference North America 2016 is being held in San Diego this weekend and several of the Discovery team will be in attendance.

= Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Deb has started integrating slowly into the Discovery Interactive Team as a quasi-Product Manager * Dan and Deb will split up PM duties of the Discovery Search Team in the coming weeks

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146358 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Fallback_Langauges [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125944 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145102 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146886 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147003 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147192 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143762 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146216 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146215 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146422 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143753 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146231 [14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143338 [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137495 [17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144834 [18] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144007 [19] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer#GeoShapes_externa... [20] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/SYDosTLCk706 [21] https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2016/Main_Page

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