Discovery/Status updates/2017-10-09

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-04-25

=Discussions= =Events and News =
 * Discussions David, Erik, and Trey had a discussion with JustinO about improving recall and improving search in general. Semi-readable notes are in an etherpad. Additional thoughts and comments are welcome.
 * Events and News The updated Perl version of TextCat is now available on GitHub. Reminder: the PHP version has been available for a while.
 * Analysis has been completed on low-performing queries (< 3 results) on French, Spanish, and Italian Wikipedias, to optimize performance on language identification with TextCat on those wikis. German is coming up next.
 * Analysis is complete on recent Wikipedia.org portal page A/B test: Wikipedia Portal Test of Language Detection and Primary Link Resorting
 * Maps servers now have 16 varnish servers instead of 2 in 4 different data centers instead of 1.

= Other Noteworthy Stuff = Other Noteworthy Stuff

= Did you know? = Did you know?

= Development = Development


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