Discovery/Status updates/2016-05-30

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-05-30

Discussions

• Trey completed a quick survey of the effects of removing quotes and trailing question marks from poorly-performing queries.
  • There's now a Phab ticket to look into removing training question marks from queries.

Events and News

• Released language detection and re-sorting of top 10 languages to wikipedia.org portal
• Draft completion of analysis on how long a typical session is on the wikipedia portal

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Chris (our community liaison) presented at EMWCon on what Technical Collaboration does for MediaWiki admins and developers. There was a small mention of the work of Discovery, which was well received.
• Jan did a CREDIT showcase demo for the new language detection on the portal
• Trey did a CREDIT showcase presentation for the TextCat language detection demo
  • The demo is available to try.
• Katie Horn started her first week as Director, Head of Discovery

Development

• View all open tickets related to Discovery.