Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Discovery Projects

2017-06-15 Thread Deborah Tankersley
e excluded by the machine learning model, just possibly ranked lower. Hope that helps, —Trey [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Search/Testing_Search Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation *(​via Deb Tankersley'

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Changes to Product and Technology departments at the Foundation

2017-06-14 Thread Deborah Tankersley
Hi James, Does maps also include other rich content like graphs, charts, heat maps > and other forms of data visualization? ​In reference to your question above, have you had a chance to read through the email that was sent yesterday, in regards to the Discovery team? [1] We discussed maps and

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Update on Discovery Projects

2017-06-14 Thread Deborah Tankersley
ther Commons initiatives such as the structured data grant. As with maps, we will provide updates when we know more. We are still working out all the details with the new team structure and there might be some turbulence; let us know if there are any concerns and we will do our best to answer them. Best rega

[Wikimedia-l] Update on Discovery Projects

2017-06-13 Thread Deborah Tankersley
our best to answer them. Best regards, Deborah Tankersley, Product Manager, Discovery Erika Bjune, Engineering Manager, Search Platform Jon Katz, Reading Product Lead Toby Negrin, Interim Vice President of Product Victoria Coleman, Chief Technology Officer [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Discovery search efforts and upcoming releases

2017-04-06 Thread Deborah Tankersley
> Hi > > You've mentioned searching on "Wikipedia" there. Did you mean "Wikimedia", > or are there still no Commons search improvements as yet? > > Michael > > Deborah Tankersley <mailto:dtankers...@wikimedia.org> >> 6 April 2017 at 11:15 pm >>

[Wikimedia-l] Update on Discovery search efforts and upcoming releases

2017-04-06 Thread Deborah Tankersley
tl;dr: Search continues to expand functionality by displaying more information on the search results page Ever started searching for something on Wikipedia and wondered—*really*, is that all that there is? Does it feel like you’re somehow playing hide and seek with all the knowledge that’s out

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New functionality: cross-wiki search results

2016-09-07 Thread Deborah Tankersley
Hi Gerard, I've added your question here [1] so that it's tracked for the community. Cheers, Deb [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Tb4x7cw2epzvs3sx -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery IRC: debt Wikimedia Foundation On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [discovery] Fwd: Improving search (sort of)

2016-08-03 Thread Deborah Tankersley
ikipedia does. All subjects that are notable by > Wikidata standards and many are notable by English Wikipedia standards. > Knowing what subjects are missed in Wikipedia and what people are looking > for is important because they are the people Wikipedia misses. > > NB thanks for the data,

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [discovery] Fwd: Improving search (sort of)

2016-07-29 Thread Deborah Tankersley
Forwarding to the Wikimedia mailing list, I'm sorry for the lateness! -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery IRC: debt Wikimedia Foundation -- Forwarded message -- From: Trey Jones Date: Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [discovery] Fwd:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

2016-03-15 Thread Deborah Tankersley
SJ > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Michael Jahn <michael.j...@wikimedia.de> > wrote: > > > I've played around a bit. Feels very cool! > > Michael > > > > 2016-03-11 3:27 GMT+01:00 Deborah Tankersley <dtankers...@wikimedia.org > >: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

2016-03-15 Thread Deborah Tankersley
;? > > 2016-03-11 3:27 GMT+01:00 Deborah Tankersley <dtankers...@wikimedia.org>: > > > Hello! > > > > I'm very pleased to announce that we've updated the Wikipedia.org > > <http://wikipedia.org/> portal page with a brand new search box that is > > m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

2016-03-12 Thread Deborah Tankersley
ense" href="//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">), no > license is displayed to the user. > > And some questions: > > * Are you planning to make something similar with wikimedia.org? > > * Do you follow a specific order when linking to the sister p

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

2016-03-11 Thread Deborah Tankersley
Hello! I'm very pleased to announce that we've updated the Wikipedia.org portal page with a brand new search box that is more prominent and will now display meta data with images (as available) in the search results (see attached image). This was a large effort by the

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

2016-03-11 Thread Deborah Tankersley
Hello! I'm very pleased to announce that we've updated the Wikipedia.org portal page with a brand new search box that is more prominent and will now display meta data with images (as available) in the search results (link

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] USA elections in real time - as viewed by Wikipedia users

2016-02-18 Thread Deborah Tankersley
Very cool! Will it be updated automatically on a daily basis? :) Cheers, Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/US_Politics_Real_Time >

[Wikimedia-l] Portal Improvements wiki page update

2016-02-15 Thread Deborah Tankersley
Hi all, I've made multiple updates of text, images, ideas and more on the Wikipedia.org portal improvements page on Meta, go check it out! The page now displays what the Discovery Portal team has