Though it isn't exactly the same, this reminds me of our discussion back in Aug/Sep about Corn and Maize, much of which is on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110571 .
The behavior you want happens sometimes. Searching for "usually" gives as the first result: Convention (norm) (redirect from Usually) "difficult": Difficulty (redirect from Difficult) "corn", among its many odd behaviors, gives: Maize (redirect from Maize corn). I think there's some sort of ranking going on for redirects that can put a partial match above an exact match (hence "Maize corn" instead of "corn" as the redirect shown). More relevant to your example, I think that if there's a match on one or more search terms in the redirected-to title, it blocks redirected-from titles from being shown. Searching for "neropathic" gets a spelling correction to "neuropathic", which gives as the first result: Peripheral neuropathy (redirect from Neuropathic). David may know more about either of these cases off the top of his head. (But maybe not, since it was a while ago, and I recall that it was very messy, and we declined to work on it then.) So, at the very least, the control group would at least sometimes have a chance of getting the test behavior because we do that now under certain circumstances. Another option is to consider this a bug fix so that we have consistent behavior whenever there's an exact match of the query to a redirect title, regardless of partial matches to the redirected-to title or higher-ranked redirects. It would also be interesting to know how often queries get redirected results, and how often they show the redirects—either in general, or as part of any A/B test. —Trey Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > So I was looking up information on peripheral neuritis[0] and I > accidentally mistyped it as "peripheral neuriti". The good news: the > autocorrector worked out I'd done it wrong, corrected it, and sent me > automatically to the right results. Yay![1] > > But looking at the results I see a really obvious improvement we could > make that would definitely improve the user experience in this > scenario. See, if you look at the first article on the list you'll see > it's "Peripheral neuropathy". Why? Because peripheral neuritis > redirects to that. But the article header appears in the search > results as "Peripheral neuropathy", since that's the real title. > > But it's not what I searched for. What I searched for was neuritis. Is > neuritis the same as neuropathy? I dunno, I'm a random reader. Is this > a good search result to click on? No idea. > > What I'd love for us to do is run an A/B test with two conditions: > > 1. Users who search for a term which redirects to an article get the > current experience (control) > 2. Users who search for a term which redirects to an article get the > article title in the search results claiming to be the redirect title > (test) > > I bet this would really improve the clickthrough rate for this class > of searches. It would definitely improve the UX. > > [0] I'm researching thalidomide. Long story. > [1] > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=peripheral+neuriti&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go > -- > Oliver Keyes > Count Logula > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >
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