Discovery/Status updates/2017-10-09

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-09-05

=Discussions= =Events and News = Events and News
 * Discussions Trey completed the analysis for optimizing language identification for the Dutch Wikipedia (nlwiki). The results were good (F0.5 = 82.3%) but not great. The small proportions of queries in the Romance languages and in German led to many more false positives than true positives and so they had to be excluded. Future work on improving confidence may help.
 * We could use help translating the relevant "showing results from" messages into Dutch.
 * &lt;maplink> has been enabled on all wikis
 * Geoshapes data service is now integrated into all maps info

= Other Noteworthy Stuff =  Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Our elasticsearch clusters now have "row aware shard allocation". This means that we can theoretically loose one row of servers in our datacenter and still serve search traffic.

= Did you know? = = Development = Development
 * Did you know? A study came out yesterday showing that giraffes are actually four distinct species, rather than one. (Original article and BBC report.) Of course, the English and German Wikipedia pages on giraffes have already been updated!


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