Discovery/Status updates/2016-08-22

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-08-22

Events and News

• Interactive team plans to deploy <maplink> support to all Wikipedia next week. T144062

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Updated the Wikipedia.org Portal page with new information on quarterly goals and recent production releases
• Updated the Help:CirrusSearch documentation to reflect the great work Cpiral did in organizing the information in a more approachable and logical way. Kept existing translation tags in place and have asked for review. This is in preparation for this small fix to the "Help" link on every Wikimedia Special:Search page.
• Analysis: completed a retro of how the wikipedia.org portal page has evolved
• Analysis: completed a review of why portal pageviews increased in June/July 2016 (phab ticket)
• Analysis: updated pageview counting on the portal dashboard (dashboard page showing new documented changes)
• Analysis: added an easy to use page to show metrics year over year and month over month (dashboard page)
• Analysis: added a portal dashboard page to show clicks/users by language (dashboard page)
• Analysis: updated dashboard to take into account a new schema for mobile app events (dashboard page)
• Analysis: added DuckDuckGo to the search engine referral dashboard page (dashboard page)
• Portal: added several new small visual enhancements and optimizations for wikipedia.org along with an article stats and translations updates for code review
• Portal: Clean up project portals (community involvement)
• Search: deployed ascii folding / stemming re-ordering changes
• Search: disable an old search schema since a new one has already been deployed
• Search: implement an updated full text search query
• Search: Refactor GeoData elasticsearch mapping using the new search field definitions from core
• Search: update wildcard queries for BM25
• Search: Centralize document id and namespace generation
• Search: Enable BM25 by default in cirrus and evaluate impact
• Search: Add a "reverse" suggestion field
• Interactive: Large number of small maps usability fixes T144008, T143883, T137357, T143179, T144001
• Interactive: Added a box frame and captioning to <mapframe> (similar to framed images)

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