Discovery/Status updates/2017-10-09

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-08-15

=Discussions= =Events and News = = Other Noteworthy Stuff =  Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Discussions Search team met for a couple hours on Aug 17th to talk about how we can search across wiki projects (backend) and how to display them to end users (frontend). This will involve community involvement for A/B tests and user testing for how satisfied they are with the presentation and ordering/weighting of the results
 * Trey finished an analysis of the potential effects of adding ascii-folding to French Wikipedia (similar to the earlier analysis for English Wikipedia). The French case turns out to be much more complex, with a bigger impact, and more surprises.
 * Events and News  We deployed an update to the Wikipedia portal - there was also a blog post about it, as well as some social media posts on Facebook and on Twitter while also sent to a few mailing lists (wikitech-l, wikitech-ambassadors, discovery)
 * Based on feedback from the blog post, we've added in 3 new tickets for small updates to the portal:
 * update 'read in your language' phrase
 * update the meta description for the portal page
 * update the phrase to be centered under Wikipedia on mobile devices

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= Development = Development


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