Discovery/Status updates/2016-09-26

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-09-26

=Discussions= Discussions =Events and News = Events and News
 * Analysis team gave an eventlogging crash course
 * Chatted about how to help with an effort to create offline pages for Wikipedia; will use the portal page as a test case

Search:
 * Works in progress but not yet in production:
 * File property search functionality merged and documented. As soon as deployment happens (next week), the reindexing will be performed.
 * Translate extension updated to allow searches in a specific language (without translations)
 * Satisfaction schema update for checkin events on if page is visible
 * Update the ascii folding to preserve original emits that are duplicated tokens for non ascii characters
 * Update the search api interwiki to only query when srinterwiki=1 is passed

Analysis: Portal: = Other Noteworthy Stuff =  Other Noteworthy Stuff = Did you know? = Did you know?
 * Works in progress but not yet in production:
 * Analysis of BM25 A/B test
 * Analysis of WDQS geographic breakdown of SPARQL queries
 * Expanding display of other countries in portal dashboard
 * Analysis of recent spike/upward trend on portal
 * Work in progress but not in production:
 * Improve color palette
 * Update for new translations
 * Update articles by language statistics
 * Test for adding app links to page
 * Update WMF logo
 * Fix where a language link broke on two lines
 * Few other small updates...
 * Note: we had a code deployment freeze this week due to Ops having an offsite. Much of the work completed above will be released next week.

= Development = Development


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