Discovery/Status updates/2017-10-09

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2017-07-10

==Highlights== Highlights
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==Discussions== Discussions
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Search

 * After extensive help and feedback from the Japanese Wikipedia community, we decided not to deploy the new Japanese language analyzer. (T166731)
 * Did some quick analysis of the RelForge impact of initial learning-to-rank model
 * Completed a high level task of organizing necessary adjustments to the ElasticsSearch learning-to-rank plugin
 * Updated the Wikidata code to take advantage of nested fields noop script
 * Analyzing the new Kuromoji Japanese language analyzer is done, just waiting to merge the updated configuration
 * A/B test for the new search results Explore Similar feature continues after fixing a minor bug

Analysis

 * To track sister project search feature, the Search Metrics dashboard now shows traffic to various Wikimedia projects from Wikipedia search results pages: https://discovery.wmflabs.org/metrics/#sister_search_traffic
 * We found what lowered full-text search PaulScores – it was a change of event logging sampling rates (decreasing enwiki and increasing all other wikis). (T168466)

Portal

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Interactive

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==Events and News == Events and News
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== Other Noteworthy Stuff ==  Other Noteworthy Stuff
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== Did you know? == Did you know?
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== Development == Development
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