This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-06-06

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Events and News

Portal team added several files for the wikipedia.org page:
- contributing file is located here
- readme file is located here
- portal page code license file is here
- updated the portal page with a share-alike license link (phab ticket with images)
Portal team launched a new A/B test for collapsing the long list of languages by article count
Analysis team finished research on how long a 'typical' session lasts on the portal
Analysis team helped with defining better data collection for the Search team's TextCat A/B test
Elasticsearch clusters for search have been upgraded to version 2.3.3 with almost no user impact (Translation memories were unavailable for a short period of time). This opens the way to new cool features!
Maps has launched for English Wikivoyage (demo)
- The map can be made full screen, has layers, gets shown when clicking links in text
- Lua is heavily used for geojson generation and conversion of the existing templates
- Community has reported a large number of suggestions and bugs at the Traveller's pub
3 new maps servers have been installed in EQIAD datacenter and are being configured

Portal team will soon re-launch a survey with new/improved bucketing to get more responses on the question of 'how did visitors arrive at the portal?'
The Reading and Portal teams have been collaborating on designs for adding app download badges on the portal
The Internationalization and Portal teams have been collaborating on how to add in translations to the sister project descriptive text phrases
Data visualization hackathon is happening in Seattle on July 22nd. Lets build beautiful graphs and charts for Wikipedia.