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This is the weekly update for the week starting 2018-10-22

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Search

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Portal

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Events and News

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Other Noteworthy Stuff

 * Oct 18-21 Trey went to WikiConferenceNA 2018. Some highlights:
 * He was interviewed for the Wikijabber podcast.
 * He gave a lightning talk on homoglyphs. Slides are available online.
 * You can see the full conference schedule online and find the slides for many of the presentations on Commons.
 * More detailed write up on MediaWiki.

Did you know?

 * Homoglyphs are characters in different writing systems that look very similar or, in some fonts, even identical to each other. For example A/Α/А or M/Μ/М in Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic, respectively. Homoglyphs can be very hard to detect when reading, but they interfere with search because “Мoscow” and “Moscow” are completely different words from the point of view of search. The former starts with a Cyrillic M (as does Moscow’s name in Russian, “Москва”). There are often a few dozen examples of the mixed-script “Мoscow”  on English Wikipedia at any given time. (Trey cleans them up from time to time as a hobby, and hopes to create a plugin for Elasticsearch to automatically make them visible to search.)

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