Hello again, This week saw a few updates from around the department.

==Highlights== * A workshop was held in Germany on advanced search syntax on Wikipedia. [0] * Added draft how to guides for using maps, maplink, mapframe and map template as well as the terms of use landing page for the Maps project. [1] [2] [3] [4]

==Discussions== * Maps and graphs - should there be 'text' and a frame: Request for Comment [5] * Analysis discussion about how to [Dashboard] make backfilling of dashboard data easier [6]

=== Analysis === * Wrapping up the final report for results of the second BM25 test [7] * Completed analysis for looking at WDQS traffic data to find parallel connection patterns [8]

=== Portal === * Portal language by articles were updated on Nov 22 to note that dewiki is now over 2 million articles, yay! [9]

=== Interactive === * Bug fix Interactive mapframe not interactive in embed mode [10] * Minor icon update Reduce the size of the hole in the maplink icon [11] * Updating colors to be in alignment Align Kartographer to WikimediaUI color palette [12] * Work in progress: updating Grafana for better KPI tracking [13] * Ops work: Deploy libmapnik3.0 deb package to all maps servers [14] * Updated logging for KPIs by implementing second phase of map event logging [15] * Bug fix where the "marker-click" event sampling gets overriden - will go out during week of Dec 6 [16]

== Other Noteworthy Stuff == * Fun music and neoswing [17]

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Workshop_spe... [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/how_to:_maps [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/how_to:_embedded_maps [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/how_to:_map_template [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/terms_of_use [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148706 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150915 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147500 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149963 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546#2815592 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150464 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150924 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150497 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149723 [14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150722 [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149834 [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152162 [17] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ueJ4-lTa1s

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The full update, and archive of 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