I know that the WS community has some long-awaited phabricator requests for search improvements.
An example relates to search, subpages and typeahead that impact upon our compilation works . As background, as the WSes reproduce PD works where the components of a work will be subpages -- that can be biographical or an article in a journal. Search and typeahead are currently designed (packaged?) for the predominant component of the lead name of the work. So that works well for Encyclopaedia Britannica, but is a lot less useful for 'shakespeare' for each biographical work within each encyclopaedia. Typeahead is especially limited where content pages are in multiple namespaces and/or where subpages are utilised. Prior to improving interwiki, fixing up intrawiki would be a good first step. Billinghurst On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 08:56 Erik Bernhardson <[email protected]> wrote: > I happened to be looking at the proposed Q3 goals yesterday, currently > they say: > > > - Make www.wikipedia.org a portal for exploring open content on > Wikimedia sites. > - Bring more consistency to the user experience for search across > desktop, mobile web, and mobile apps. > - Enhance search results and expose users to other interesting content > by improving interwiki search integration. > > My concern is that our current user satisfaction metric suggests 15% of > users are happy with the results they are getting. This is really bad. I > would prefer to see us focus on search relevance and improving the scoring > of what we already have before spending more focus on interwiki search. I > don't have anything to point to yet, but for search satisfaction to be so > low I don't think that's because we arn't surfacing content from other > wiki's, I think its because when you search for something we surface all > kinds of results that aren't nearly as relevant as other data we have in > the corpus. > > I really want to see us focus on fixing what we already have and > validating the features we already support before we go whole hog on > incorperating all kinds of new data. > > Erik B. > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >
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