Howdy,

Here is this week's (belated) update from the Discovery department.

* Updated Wikipedia.org Portal stats [1] for articles by languages

* Updated Portal page [2] for things done to date

* Last week, the Search Team met offsite in Washington, D.C. to build our quarterly goals based on the annual plan. The goals pages on mediawiki.org will be updated soon with the new provisional goals.

* Elasticsearch 2.3.3 upgrade in progress, beta is running the new version. Production clusters will be upgraded next week, see the upgrade plan [3] for more details.

* Released a report [4] on analyzing the relationship between query features and zero results rate.

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546

[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal

[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133124

[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:From_Zero_to_Hero_-_Anticipating_Zero_Results_From_Query_Features,_Ignoring_Content.pdf

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Feedback and suggestions on this weekly update are welcome!

The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on Mediawiki.org:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

Yours,

Chris Koerner

Community Liaison - Discovery

Wikimedia Foundation