Discovery/Status updates/2017-04-10

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2017-04-10 going through 2017-04-21

Highlights

• A blog post about Discovery's Search team was released, along with a Twitter and Facebook post, detailing what we've done over the last several months and what we have coming up next.
• Numerous tests have been done with real users to get their feedback on the sister project snippets and the upcoming explore similar feature.

Discussions

Search

• Finished a write up based a discussion Trey & David had about the math of scoring functions. Use your hyperoperations, kids!

Analysis

• Fixed a bug on the portal dashboard (task T161806), and updated the search dashboard with an option to view how the relative share of each search engine changes over time (task T161771)
• Updated the external search dashboard to display non-bot traffic (task T161932)
• Updated the WDQS dashboard to include the SPARQL endpoints ({(phab|T163501}})

Portal

• A scap3 bug was fixed (task T161832) that had been blocking portal deployments and thus, we were able to deploy several updates for RTL display (task T122053), (task T160429), and (task T160002)
• Portal statistics (task T128546) and translations (task T142582) were updated
• Multiple other minor enhancements were made to the css, colors of the portal page

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