Discovery/Status updates/2017-10-09

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-08-22

=Discussions= Discussions

=Events and News = Events and News

= Other Noteworthy Stuff = = Did you know? = Did you know?
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff   Updated the Wikipedia.org Portal page with new information on quarterly goals and recent production releases
 * Analysis: completed a retro of how the wikipedia.org portal page has evolved
 * Analysis: completed a review of why portal pageviews increased in June/July 2016 (phab ticket)
 * Analysis: updated pageview counting on the portal dashboard
 * Analysis: added an easy to use page to show metrics year over year and month over month
 * Analysis: added a portal dashboard page to show clicks/users by language
 * Portal: added several new small visual enhancements and optimizations for wikipedia.org along with an article stats and translations updates for code review
 * Search: deployed ascii folding / stemming re-ordering changes
 * Search: disable an old search schema since a new one has already been deployed
 * Search: implement an updated full text search query
 * Search: Refactor GeoData elasticsearch mapping using the new search field definitions from core
 * Search: update wildcard queries for BM25

= Development = Development


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