David or Erik can correct me if need be, but I think Common Terms is going
to improve results quality more than ZRR.

Also, we don't have anything that quite lives up to the label of "system"
for re-running queries. We have "methods"—hacks, scripts, and other
non-systematic ways of achieving that goal. [Insert plug for Relevance Lab
here.]


Trey Jones
Software Engineer, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Mikhail Popov <[email protected]> wrote:

> 1. Is the common terms query work supposed to address zero results rate
> or…? Don't we have a system now for running old queries through the engine
> and seeing whether the change affected the ZRR? If the test is not
> dependent on the user's actions, we don't need to do an A/B test that
> involves users.
>
> 2. We finally have a couple of ways of assessing user engagement with our
> search results (more on that in an announcement later today). If this work
> is meant to address that, then we need to run an A/B test, but include the
> TestSatisfaction2 schema (or a variant of it that also tracks the grouping).
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Erik Bernhardson <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> David's work on the common terms query is merged and will be deploying
>> this week.  It's hidden behind a feature flag so no user visible change
>> will occur.
>>
>> I thought we had decided on an A/B test to check the usefulness of this
>> approach but I can't find anything in phab.  So the question is, how do we
>> want to AB test this?  It will be easiest to run this test through our
>> backend AB testing infrastructure, i think we just need to choose a
>> sampling rate.
>>
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