Hello, This is a quick summary of some of the things happening around Discovery in the past week. Note: This is our first week trying something like this. Feedback and suggestions are welcome.
==Events and News== * Completion Suggester will be coming to a few of the smaller wikis starting on March 10th <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Work/Completion_Suggester_inital_rollout> ==Other Noteworthy Stuff== * Interesting article from former WMF staffer Nik Everett (now at Elastic) on Loading Wikipedia's Search Index for Testing <https://www.elastic.co/blog/loading-wikipedia>. * Wikipedia.org portal page update! <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-March/083269.html> ==Did you know?== * Wikidata Query Service now has over 1 billion data elements (triples) <https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-query-service?panelId=7&fullscreen> . ==Development== * Measuring scoring changes to search engine relevance based on user behavior * Upcoming AB test measure the effect of changing the boost on search phrase matching (brought to you by new measurement above) View the full update on-wiki at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2016_03_11 Help contribute to next week's update at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/Next -- Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation P.S. A big thanks to Lydia and the other Wikidata folks for leading the way. I unabashedly borrowed many templates from their weekly status updates <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates>.
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