Hi Oliver, Deborah,

I see your point, thank you.


On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:31 PM, Deborah Tankersley <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Luigi,
>
> The A/B tests that we run are to specifically get a sampling of our
> audience that uses the portal page <http://www.wikipedia.org> and then
> log what their actions are on that page, in relation to what we happen to
> be testing. We don't want folks going to the test on purpose and skewing
> the random sampling.
>
> Hope that helps...!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Deb
>
>
> --
> Deb Tankersley
> Product Manager, Discovery
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Gotcha! Well, that test is over, I'm afraid :). I know we do have methods
>> for sort of forcing a session into a test population (for browsing
>> purposes) but I'm not sure how I feel about the idea of making that
>> available for _non_testing purposes. It kind of defeats the point of an A/B
>> test if the population is self-selected and features people aware of the
>> context of the test.
>>
>> On 26 January 2016 at 12:34, Luigi Assom <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> @ Oliver,
>>> about A/B test I refer to the email of 13 Jan 2016
>>> by Deborah Tankersley
>>> [discovery] New A/B testing on Wikipedia Portal page
>>> however, yes I would like tobe included in A/B tests in general, not a
>>> particular one.
>>> I m mostrly interested in full text search, knowledge discovery and
>>> discovery of topics' context.
>>>
>>> @Luca Nemo
>>>
>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Generators
>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Search
>>>
>>> Not much clear to me yet, sorry.
>>>
>>> I will rephrase my question:
>>> I would like to do a full-text search (FTS) query, have the pageids and
>>> decorators.
>>>
>>> I also would like to have results hit (I see them in API:Search,
>>> list=search); I would like to access the page_Ids of articles (see them in
>>> generators).
>>>
>>> I would like to understand if the backend between two is different,
>>> since I've read list=search use an ElasticSearch instance, and it seems to
>>> me it is faster and better FTS (not tried extensively, through).
>>> Also, list=search offers a snippet and may be less expensive for wiki
>>> server instead of quering an exerpt - is it the case?
>>>
>>> I pass:
>>> params = {'action':'query', 'generator':'search', 'gsrnamespace' : 0,
>>> 'gsrsearch' : keywords, 'gsrlimit' : 20 , 'prop' : 'pageimages|extracts',
>>> 'pilimit' : 'max', 'exintro' : '', 'explaintext' : '', 'exsentences' : 3,
>>> 'exlimit' : 'max', 'redirects' : '' }
>>>
>>> would like to do the same with list=search.
>>>
>>> Could you please show an example of FTS with list=search ?
>>>
>>> Not clear to me how coudl I pass a list to a generator, if it is the
>>> case.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Which A/B test are you referring to? We have tried quite a few :). Or
>>>> do you just generally want to be included in the A/B tests?
>>>>
>>>> On 26 January 2016 at 03:44, Luigi Assom <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Hello,
>>>> >
>>>> > I have few question for discovery portal and API:
>>>> >
>>>> > - possible to be included in the 0.05% who tried the A/B test?
>>>> >
>>>> > - do you have or plan to have a feature for discovery *between*
>>>> topics? E.g.
>>>> > suggestions connecting two topics.
>>>> > I ve been working on this.
>>>> >
>>>> > - Which is the difference in API:Search between:
>>>> >  list=search and generator=search ?
>>>> > The first seems to be faster to me.
>>>> >
>>>> > - I need to fetch the pageIDs of the results, and have them already
>>>> > redirected and decorated with images and snipped/excerpt.
>>>> >
>>>> > With generator=search I could do it, I can't with list=search
>>>> > Could you help in grasping query parameters?
>>>> >
>>>> > #generator=search
>>>> > params = {'action':'query', 'generator':'search', 'gsrnamespace' : 0,
>>>> > 'gsrsearch' : keywords, 'gsrlimit' : 20 , 'prop' :
>>>> 'pageimages|extracts',
>>>> > 'pilimit' : 'max', 'exintro' : '', 'explaintext' : '', 'exsentences'
>>>> : 3,
>>>> > 'exlimit' : 'max', 'redirects' : '' }
>>>> >
>>>> > #list=search
>>>> > params = {'action':'query', 'list':'search', 'srsearch' : keywords,
>>>> > 'srlimit' : 20 , 'srprop' : 'size', 'indexpageids' : 1 } ??
>>>> >
>>>> > I m trying with sand box with no success, only search results are
>>>> hit, no
>>>> > matter of
>>>> >
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&list=search&format=json&srsearch=Albert%20Einstein&srnamespace=0&srinfo=totalhits%7Csuggestion%7Crewrittenquery&srprop=redirecttitle%7Credirectsnippet&indexpageids=&generator=images
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > - I also found 0&formatversion=2' is another param used in search=list
>>>> > Has it a special meaning?
>>>> >
>>>> >
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