Thanks Eran,
I completely forgot to mention this feature in the status update.
I hope to be able to build a test index very soon so we can start
evaluating this new feature.
David.
Le 10/09/2016 à 11:23, Eran Rosenthal a écrit :
Thanks Deborah for the update.
Just to mention another interesting feature (implemented but yet
evaluated/activated) - dcausse have implemented ability to show search
results also based on the DEFAULTSORT. (T134978
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134978>)
E.g when you search for Putin (and not Vladimir Putin) you will get
suggestion for Vladimir Putin (even if there is no redirect from
Putin), as its defaultsort is Putin, Vladimir.
This feature may have high impact once (and if) it is activated.
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 1:44 AM, Deborah Tankersley
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello,
Here is the week's update from the Discovery department - enjoy
the read and your weekend!
== Discussions ==
* Trey completed the analysis for optimizing language
identification for the Dutch Wikipedia (nlwiki). The results were
good (F0.5 = 82.3%) but not great. The small proportions of
queries in the Romance languages and in German led to many more
false positives than true positives and so they had to be
excluded. Future work on improving confidence may help. [1]
* We could use help translating (via translatewiki) the relevant
"showing results from" messages into Dutch. We'll need English,
Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, and Russian
translations. [2]
* The Analysis team had a discussion on how to use better wording
for phrases like "users were 1.07 times more likely to do X" and
decided on using phrases similar to "we can expect 2-9 more
sessions to click on a search result when they have the new
feature" [3]
* The Search team wrapped up research into the ElasticSearch
instabilities on the eqiad search cluster that occurred on Aug 6,
2016; nothing conclusive was found. [4]
== Events and News ==
=== Interactive ===
* <maplink> has been enabled on all wikis (announced via email to
wikitech-l) [5]
* Geoshapes data service is now integrated into all maps [6]
=== Search ===
* Turned off BM25 A/B test, awaiting analysis [7]
* Pushed into production a change that implemented ascii-folding
for French [8]
* Improved balance of nodes across rows for ElasticSearch eqiad
cluster [9]
=== Portal ===
* Currently blocked on this check-in to gerrit [10]
== Other Noteworthy Stuff' ==
* Our elasticsearch clusters now have "row aware shard
allocation". This means that we can theoretically lose one row of
servers in our datacenter and still serve search traffic. [11]
* The Search team sent out a request for comment article that was
posted to various Village Pumps asking for it to be translated. [12]
** This was in reference to the cross-wiki search results new
functionality and design articles on MediaWiki. [13], [14]
== Did you know? ==
* A study came out yesterday showing that giraffes are actually
four distinct species, rather than one (article and BBC report).
[15], [16]
** Of course, the English and German Wikipedia pages on giraffes
have already been updated! [17], [18]
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_Optimization_for_plwiki_arwiki_zhwiki_and_nlwiki
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_%28WMF%29/Notes/TextCat_Optimization_for_plwiki_arwiki_zhwiki_and_nlwiki>
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143354
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143354>
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140187
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140187>
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142506
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142506>
[5]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-September/086490.html
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-September/086490.html>
[6]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer#GeoShapes_external_data
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer#GeoShapes_external_data>
[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143588
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143588>
[8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144429
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144429>
[9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143685
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143685>
[10] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/306241/
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/306241/>
[11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143571
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143571>
[12]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DTankersley_(WMF)/translation_request_for_cross-wiki_search_results
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DTankersley_%28WMF%29/translation_request_for_cross-wiki_search_results>
[13]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements>
[14]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design>
[15]
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30787-4
<http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2816%2930787-4>
[16] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37311716
<http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37311716>
[17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe>
[18] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe>
----
The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on
Mediawiki.org:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates>
Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as Easy or
volunteer needed in Phabricator:
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R>
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R>
Cheers!
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Product Manager, Discovery
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