Discovery/Status updates/2016-05-02

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-05-02

=Discussions= Discussions

=Events and News =
 * Events and News Wikipedia.org portal A/B test for adding in descriptive text to the sister wiki links went live on May 3, 2016.
 * Updated statistics for wiktionary.org on May 3, 2016
 * Released a few minor fixes to the Portal on May 3, 2016
 * New version of Blazegraph and WDQS deployed, including geospatial search.

= Other Noteworthy Stuff = Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New completion suggester code was reverted from planned ElasticSearch 2.x release, affecting our plans for runtime updates to suggester.
 * It is now possible to use SPARQL queries from interactive graphs.
 * Deb attended the Reading department offsite this week. Initial response was that it was a great opportunity to learn and discovery new ways we can collaborate in the future.

= Did you know? = Did you know?

= Development = Development


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