Hello,

From the Wikimedia Foundation Discovery department here's this week's

updates.

= Events and news =

* Portal team added several files for the wikipedia.org page: ** contributing file [1] ** ready file [2] ** portal page code license [3] ** updated the portal page with a share-alike license link [4] * Portal team launched a new A/B test for collapsing the long list of languages by article count [5] * Analysis team finished research on how long a 'typical' session lasts on the portal [6] * Analysis team helped with defining better data collection for the Search team's TextCat A/B test [7] * Elasticsearch clusters for search have been upgraded to version 2.3.3 with almost no user impact (Translation memories were unavailable for a short period of time). This opens the way to new cool features! * Maps has launched for English Wikivoyage (demo) [8] ** The map can be made full screen, has layers, gets shown when clicking links in text ** Lua is heavily used for geojson generation and conversion of the existing templates [9] ** Community has reported a large number of suggestions and bugs at the Traveller's pub [10] *3 new maps servers have been installed in EQIAD datacenter and are being configured

= Other noteworthy stuff=

* Portal team will soon re-launch a survey with new/improved bucketing to get more responses on the question of 'how did visitors arrive at the portal?' [11] * The Reading and Portal teams have been collaborating on designs for adding app download badges on the portal [12] * The Internationalization and Portal teams have been collaborating on how to add in translations to the sister project descriptive text phrases [13] * Data visualization hackathon is happening in Seattle on July 22nd. Lets build beautiful graphs and charts for Wikipedia. [14]

[1] https://github.com/wikimedia/portals/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md [2] https://github.com/wikimedia/portals/blob/master/README.md [3] https://github.com/wikimedia/portals/blob/master/LICENSE [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135903 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134008 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134301 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137158 [8] https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Salzburg#By_car [9] https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Module:Map [10] https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Travellers%27_pub#Maps_with_extra_... [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136874 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135441 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136441 [14] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/DataViz_Seattle_hackathon ----

Feedback and suggestions on this weekly update are welcome!

The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on Mediawiki.org:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates