Interesting stuff.

I think they somewhat misused that 20% statistic, though. I followed that
link and it seems like the problem it refers to is tracking down
organization-internal info that isn't in a searchable format (hence the
suggestion of org-internal social media). People need wikis. ; )

There's also this:

> Although the total size of the text corpus is large, each team’s corpus is
> relatively small and thus allows us to devote more computational resources
> to each message during ranking.


That sounds kinda like "might not scale to big Wikipedias", alas. Bummer.
They also use a lot of features that aren't applicable to us,
unfortunately. But the relevance vs recency thing is indeed
thought-provoking.

Thanks for sharing, Erik—much appreciated!
—Trey

Trey Jones
Software Engineer, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Wes Moran <[email protected]> wrote:

> "On average, 20% of a knowledge worker’s day is spent looking for the
> information they need to get their work done. If you think about a typical
> work week, that means an entire day is dedicated to this task!"
>
> Interesting way to look at it.  Also interesting takes on recent v
> relevant.  Thanks for sharing.
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Erik Bernhardson <
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>
>> Might be interesting to look over
>>
>> https://slack.engineering/search-at-slack-431f8c80619e
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