If anyone is interested, the write ups for eswiki, itwiki, and dewiki are
done and available on the same page:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_Optimization_for_frwiki_eswiki_itwiki_and_dewiki


On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Trey Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I've just finished my write-up for optimizing the languages that could
> eventually be used for language detection on French Wikipedia. (Spanish,
> Italian, and German are still to come.)
>
> The full write-up
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_Optimization_for_frwiki_eswiki_itwiki_and_dewiki>
>  gives details
> on corpus creation and clean up, performance stats, and more.
>
> Briefly, about 15% of "low performing" queries (those with < 3 results)
> are easily filtered junk, and 65% of the remainder are not in an
> identifiable language (e.g., names, acronyms, more junk, etc.).
>
> Based on a sample of 682 poor-performing queries on frwiki that are in
> some language, about 70% are in French, 10-15% are in English, about 7-12%
> are in Arabic, fewer than 3% are in Portuguese, German, and Spanish, and
> there are a handful of other languages present.
>
> Because of the relatively low percentage of low-performing queries that
> are relevant, we will still need to do an A/B test before discussing
> deploying this to frwiki. An A/B test on enwiki
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121542> in in the works at the moment.
>
> The optimal settings for frwiki, based on these experiments, would be to
> use the TextCat query-based models for French, English, Arabic, Russian,
> Chinese, Armenian, Thai, Greek, Hebrew, Korean (fr, en, ar, ru, zh, th, el,
> hy, he, ko), using the default 3000-ngram models.
>
> —Trey
>
> Trey Jones
> Software Engineer, Discovery
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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