Hi,
Here is this week's update from the Discovery department.

* A Wikipedia.org survey was run from May 10 - 17, 2016 to determine how visitors arrived at the portal page. Survey results here. [1]
* A Wikipedia.org production release was done on May 18, 2016 which added descriptive text to the sister wiki project links. [2]
* WikiVoyage experimental map with custom layers. [3]
* Analysis was done for the Portal A/B test for the addition of descriptive text to the sister wiki project links. [4]
* Deb will be coordinating with User Research team to get interviews setup for survey responders that want to talk about how they use the wikipedia portal.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Portal_Survey_-_May_2016.pdf
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal_A/B_testing#A.2FB_test:_adding_descriptive_text_to_sister_.28other.29_project_links
[3] https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Travellers%27_pub#Maps_with_extra_layers_on_en-Wikivoyage
[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Descriptive_Text_for_Sister_Project_Links_Wikipedia_Portal_AB_Test.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

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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation