Hello,

Here are the updates from the Discovery department for the week of 13 February. As always, feedback on these updates are welcome. I hope you're having a good day.

== Discussions ==

=== Search ===

* The inter-wiki search test has been modified this week to allow for more bucketing/sampling of users so that we can get more data to analyze. This is an A/B test of a new search results page which includes inter-wiki search results that is deployed to Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias. Take a look and give us feedback! [0] [1]

* Our codfw elasticsearch cluster has been upgraded to Debian Jessie, its partitioning has been standardised and a 12 new servers have been added [2] [3] [4]

* Wikidata Query Service has two more brand new servers [5] [6]

[0] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=passion+for+food&fulltext=1&cirrusUserTesting=recall_sidebar_results&searchToken=ee2pd7unaob35dtu96lmlor98

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149806

[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151326

[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151328

[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154251

[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152643

[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152643

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The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org:

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

Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as "Easy" or "Volunteer needed" in Phabricator.

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R

[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R

Yours,

Chris Koerner

Community Liaison - Discovery

Wikimedia Foundation