Discovery/Status updates/2016-08-29

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-08-29

=Discussions= Discussions =Events and News = Events and News = Other Noteworthy Stuff =  Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Search: a small subsection of the team met to go over the upcoming Discernatron demo / luncheon and how we can improve the user interface for it
 * Analysis: add a 'most commonly clicked section per visit' metric on Portal dashboard
 * Search: turned on BM25 A/B test after re-indexing the codfw seach cluster first
 * Search: worked on updating the prose and user flow of the Discernatron introduction and instructions page
 * Search: added patch to ensure timeouts always work on CirrusSearch
 * Search: evaluated BM25 with new fulltext query and weighted sum with PaulScore and Discernatron
 * Search: added patch to properly handle acronyms in fulltext query builder
 * Search: tested and analyzed the effect of adding ascii-folding to fr.wiki
 * Search: Use top_terms_blended_freq for wildcard queries
 * Search: updated fulltext query builder to enhance title
 * Search: turned off 'did you mean' on Wikidata
 * We tried to enable &lt;maplink> on every Wikipedia, but ran into some blockers. Will try again next week. Track it at T144062

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= Development = Development


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