Discovery/Status updates/2016-03-11

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-03-07

=Discussions=

=Events and News =
 * Completion Suggester will be coming to a few of the smaller wikis starting on March 10th.
 * Updated the wikipedia.org portal page with a new, more prominent search box that has type-ahead and meta data and images in the search results (March 10, 2016)

= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
 * Interesting article from former WMF staffer Nik Everett (now at Elastic) on Loading Wikipedia's Search Index for Testing.
 * Wikipedia.org portal page update!

= Did you know? = = Development = View all open tickets related to Discovery.
 * Wikidata Query Service now has over 1 billion data elements (triples).


 * Measuring scoring changes to search engine relevance based on user behavior
 * Upcoming AB test measure the effect of changing the boost on search phrase matching (brought to you by new measurement above)