Discovery/Status updates/2017-10-09

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-06-06

=Discussions= Discussions

=Events and News =
 * Events and News  Portal team added several files for the wikipedia.org page:
 * contributing file is located here
 * readme file is located here
 * portal page code license file is here
 * updated the portal page with a share-alike license link (phab ticket with images)
 * Portal team launched a new A/B test for collapsing the long list of languages by article count
 * Analysis team finished research on how long a 'typical' session lasts on the portal
 * Analysis team helped with defining better data collection for the Search team's TextCat A/B test
 * 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!

= Other Noteworthy Stuff = = Did you know? = Did you know?
 * 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?' 
 * The Reading and Portal teams have been collaborating on designs for adding app download badges on the portal
 * The Internationalization and Portal teams have been collaborating on how to add in translations to the sister project descriptive text phrases

= Development = Development


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