[Wikimedia-l] Improving search (sort of)

A while ago I requested a list of the "most frequently searched for terms for which no Wikipedia articles are returned". This would allow the community to than create redirect or new pages as appropriate and help address the "zero results rate" of about 30%. While we are still waiting for this dat

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

Excellent idea. Librarians use patron catalog searches to gauge what their patrons are looking for and supplement their collections accordingly, there's no reason we can't adopt this practice as well. On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 9:32 AM, James Heilman wrote: > A while ago I requested a list of the "

[Wikimedia-l] Initial eligibility for 2016-2017 Round 1 of the Annual Plan Grants / FDC process

Dear Wikimedians, We are pleased to announce initial eligibility of applicants submitting a Letter of Intent for 2016-2017 Round 1 of the Annual Plan Grants / FDC process. Only applicants confirmed as eligible by 15 September 2016 may submit proposals to the Funds Dissemination Committee by the 1

Re: [Wikimedia-l] With my thanks to everyone ...

Geoff! At some point in the past that feels like a million years ago (but actually was about five years ago), I was at a party in Berlin watching you have enthusiastic, lengthy discussions about copyright over a beer with Wikipedians from many countries. Afterwards, I told someone "you know, our

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

excellent Idea, hopefully we can get the result in more languages Mardetanha On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 6:35 PM, Robert Fernandez wrote: > Excellent idea. Librarians use patron catalog searches to gauge what > their patrons are looking for and supplement their collections > accordingly, there's n

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

Hey Trey Thanks for the in depth discussion. So if the terms people are using that result in "zero search results" are typically gibberish why do we care if 30% of our searches result in "zero search results"? A big deal was made about this a while ago. If one was just to look at those search ter

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

On 15 July 2016 at 08:44, James Heilman wrote: > > Thanks for the in depth discussion. So if the terms people are using that > result in "zero search results" are typically gibberish why do we care if > 30% of our searches result in "zero search results"? A big deal was made > about this a while a

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

The "jurrasic world" example is a good one as it was "fixed" by User:Foxj adding a redirect https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jurrasic_world&action=history Agree we would need to be careful. The chance of many different IPs all searching for "DF198671E" is low but I agree not zero and we

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

Forwarded at the request of Trey Jones Hey James, When we first started looking at zero results rate (ZRR), it was an easy metric to calculate, and it was surprisingly high. We still look at ZRR because it is so easy to measure, and anything

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

> If I can get a few hundred people to click on a link like this , I can get any message I want on that list. (Curious? Did you click?) The message could be less anonymous and

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

How hard would it be to ask for search feedback on search results, perhaps piloting with some small subset of zero-result searches? For 1/1000 ZRRs, prompt the user to provide some type of useful information about why there should be results, or if there ought to be, or what category of information

[Wikimedia-l] 2016 call for Board Governance Committee Volunteer and Advisory members

Dear all, This letter is a public call for interested people to serve as Board Governance Committee (BGC) Volunteer and Advisory members. The BGC can have non-voting members participate in the Committee on an annual basis [1]. This opportunity has never been used by the BGC before, so we decided t

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

I use search to find typos and misused words, so I'm guilty of some of the gibberish looking searches . If we are concerned that some common searches could have Privacy implications, why not create it as a deleted page and announce its

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 call for Board Governance Committee Volunteer and Advisory members

Nataliia - I really appreciate this step! I hope it serves the committee well. Sam On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Nataliia Tymkiv wrote: > Dear all, > > This letter is a public call for interested people to serve as Board > Governance Committee (BGC) Volunteer and Advisory members. The BGC