Discovery/Status updates/2016-07-11

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-07-11

=Discussions= Discussions
 * Mikhail completed a review of the language-identification A/B test (using TextCat). The full report is on Commons.
 * Trey has more language-identification–related stuff: notes on how to introduce confidence to TextCat (comments and ideas especially welcome!), a re-review of the languages of poorly performing queries on English Wikipedia using our now-standard corpus creation process (TL; DR: quite similar to earlier results); and similar first-time reports for Portuguese and Russian Wikipedias, with Japanese and Indonesian in the pipeline.
 * Trey and Jan collaborated on a new design of the TextCat demo
 * Map's geoshapes service is now available in graphs: Interactive maps with regions
 * Wikivoyage map customizations have moved into the extension code, now available on all WV languages. Customize it via MediaWiki:Kartographer.js and MediaWiki:Kartographer.css
 * Conversation with the community continuing for new Wikipedia.org portal page layout with a new language by article count dropdown.
 * The page has been translated, so far, in 8 languages and posted on various Village Pump sites;
 * a new working prototype has been added
 * and a new mock up design has been added which was based off of community feedback.
 * Released findings and conclusions of the recent survey ran on the Wikipedia.org portal page - how did you arrive at Wikipedia - that also contains good feedback on the portal design page, the sister project links with descriptive text, search and usage on various platforms.
 * Conversation with the community on handling search queries with question marks also continues
 * this page has been translated into 5 additional languages
 * Team conversations started about how to package portions of the wikipedia portal page to make it easier to re-use across all projects that want it.
 * Team conversations started about how to automate stats updates on the wikipedia portal page
 * Team discussing deploying the new TextCat language detection to wikis: en, it, fr, de, es with more language wikis to come in the future
 * a cute picture of a cat and dog, just because

=Events and News = Events and News = Other Noteworthy Stuff =  Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Erik was promoted to Senior Software Engineer, yay!
 * Discovery Quarterly review was held
 * Geo Search was launched by the Discovery Search team on behalf of the Reading team

= Did you know? = Did you know?

= Development = Development


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