Discovery/Status updates/2017-02-27

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2017-02-27

==Highlights== Highlights ==Discussions== Discussions
 * Jan demo'd a new "explore similar" widget during this month's CREDIT showcase
 * Posted on French, Arabic, German and Russian Wikipedia Village Pumps to ask if there are any issues with A/B testing the sister project search results on them.

Search

 * Finished analysis of potential new Chinese-language analyzers. See T158203. We expect improved word segmentation accuracy, which should lead to better search results, as well as support for searching across Traditional/Simplified character sets. A test index in labs will be available soon.
 * Elasticsearch 5 upgrade in progress: the beta cluster is now running the new version. Upgrade of production clusters will start next week.

Analysis

 * Recap of the migration to ReportUpdater and more!
 * Analysis of the A/B test for displaying sister projects in search results is ongoing

Portal

 * Portal statistics were updated.
 * Fix released for bad caching of error page on portal - to be released next week.
 * Worked on a few small fixes for the portal to include a few edits on RTL language display on the portal,  - to be released next week.

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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