Discovery/Status updates/2017-10-09

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-09-12

=Discussions= =Events and News = Events and News
 * Discussions We had a Discernatration demo with free pizza on Tuesday, Sep 13 that was a success!
 * Several Discovery team members attended a Product and Tech on-site two day meeting in the SF office
 * Mikhail and Chelsy attended an Analyst on-site two day meeting in the SF office


 * Interactive:
 * You can now insert a link to a popup map with overlays on all wikis - &lt;maplink>
 * Map frame support is now enabled on all Wikipedia sister projects, but not Wikipedia itself, except for HE,MK, and CA wikis - &lt;mapframe>
 * Portal:
 * updated language article stats on Wikipedia.org
 * updated the language list dropdown button phrase to now display: Read Wikipedia in your language
 * updated the metadata description for Wikipedia to read: Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * Search:
 * Automagically fixed ÿ in Spécial:IndexPages search by implementing ascii-folding in French
 * Tried to update to to ElasticSearch plugins to 2.4.0 but found out we couldn't because our analysis plugins are not compatible
 * Added defaultsearchkeys to wiki search autocomplete
 * Fixed bug - mwgrep and "insource:" search is missing lots of pages in its index
 * Make elasticsearch actually have shard allocation awareness
 * Fixed bug - "You may create the page" suggestion does not appear if search contains 'AND', 'OR', 'NOT' anywhere in search even when these are not used as special syntax
 * Updated WikimediaMaintenance/addWiki.php to create cirrus indices on all available clusters
 * Analysis:
 * Tried finding ways to combine cirrus search logs with engagement data
 * Added event logging for the Wikipedia portal to capture the language selected in the search box
 * Added updated the mobile dashboard for new features added in event logging
 * Added 'other' pageviews to the dashboard accounting for 'keep alive' and other hits to the Wikipedia.org page
 * Updated data access guidelines search logs from flourine to hive

= Other Noteworthy Stuff =  Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We started to experiment with ORES WP10 as new relevance factor in fulltext search queries T145644
 * There's a new glossary of search-related terms available on mediawiki.org. Feel free to request additional definitions!

= Did you know? = Did you know?

= Development = Development


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