[Wikimedia-search] Fwd: Announcing the launch of Maps

2015-09-17 Thread Tomasz Finc
Cross posting to discovery -- Forwarded message -- From: Tomasz Finc Date: Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:26 PM Subject: Announcing the launch of Maps To: Wikimedia developers Cc: Yuri Astrakhan , Max Semenik < mseme...@wikimedia.org> The Discovery Department has launc

Re: [Wikimedia-search] IRC norms

2015-09-11 Thread Tomasz Finc
I'd like to hear from some of our newer staff if they would have benefited if we had this in place. Happy to draft it if we know that it would have helped on-boarding. On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Kevin Smith wrote: > Recently, the Team Practices Group agreed to a set of norms around how that

Re: [Wikimedia-search] Congratulations WDQS team

2015-09-10 Thread Tomasz Finc
Great job leading by example to showcase impact. Dan, How is our blog post looking? --tomasz On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Trey Jones, 10/09/2015 18:18: >> >> Eswiki has added Wikidata results to the bottom of every search page. >> For example: >> >> https://es

Re: [Wikimedia-search] Asynchronously calling elasticsearch

2015-09-08 Thread Tomasz Finc
I can see this becoming very useful as we query across projects, languages, etc to not block on anything explicitly. Nice work Erik. Great to see us experimenting for future use. --tomasz On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Erik Bernhardson wrote: > The php engine used in prod by the wmf, hhvm, ha

Re: [Wikimedia-search] On frequency of A/B tests and peeking at the data early

2015-09-01 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Mikhail Popov wrote: > Evan Miller, How Not To Run An A/B Test If you guys ever want me to get Evan to come talk to us just let know. We both worked at A9 together. He's a fun guy. --tomasz ___ Wikimedia-search maili

Re: [Wikimedia-search] Tasks outside of Phabricator aren't real

2015-08-28 Thread Tomasz Finc
Curious about the context. Thanks On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Mikhail Popov wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a gentle reminder that if your task doesn't exist as a Phabricator > ticket, then the person/team who can get it done doesn't know there's an > actual need for it. > > It allows us to av

Re: [Wikimedia-search] Announcing a second round of A/B tests

2015-08-20 Thread Tomasz Finc
thanks for the quick summary Oliver. Let's get these tests archived no the wiki so that at the end of the quarter we aren't having to crawl through mailing list archives On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > Dear all, > > Last week we ran an A/B test over changes to how our searc

Re: [Wikimedia-search] Dashboard updates: KPI & linking

2015-08-06 Thread Tomasz Finc
Nicely done. thank you On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Mikhail Popov wrote: > The dashboards have been updated to include the time series for each KPI. > Also, each KPI summary widget now acts as a shortcut. So you can click on > the big number to view the respective series. > > Cheers, > Mikhail

Re: [Wikimedia-search] Scaleable Event Systems recap

2015-08-03 Thread Tomasz Finc
Very excited to see this moving forward On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > Heyo, Discovery team! > > (Analytics CCd) > > This is just a quick writeup of the Scaleable Event Systems meeting > that Erik, Dan, Stas and I went to (although just from my > perspective). > > For peopl

Re: [Wikimedia-search] Where do zero results queries come from?

2015-08-03 Thread Tomasz Finc
Great, lets keep tabs on when the release is going out and align it with our metrics. On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107727 is the link! > > On 3 August 2015 at 13:07, Tomasz Finc wrote: >> What's the phab task fo

Re: [Wikimedia-search] Where do zero results queries come from?

2015-08-03 Thread Tomasz Finc
What's the phab task for this? On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > Hey Bernd, > > It's the new Android app; I've thrown some example requests at Dmitry > by way of fluorine and, being Dmitry, he's already worked out what's > going on! > > On 3 August 2015 at 11:16, Bernd Sitzman

Re: [Wikimedia-search] 500K multilingual wikipedia zero-results queries

2015-07-31 Thread Tomasz Finc
Many thanks for the summary. Now time to twiddle bits and learn if we're right. On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Trey Jones wrote: > A summary... for those who haven't been able to keep up with the voluminous > emails: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Survey_of_Zero-Res