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

Dear all, Last week we ran an A/B test over changes to how our search system provides results (and we look forward to sharing the results of that with you shortly). Today, we're launching a second A/B test. This test looks at the "phrase slop" setting within our search infrastructure, a thoroughl

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

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] Announcing a second round of A/B tests

Yep; they'll be documented on Meta in the same way all research projects are. On 20 August 2015 at 13:06, Tomasz Finc wrote: > 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 archi

[Wikimedia-search] Heads-up about a new work categorization pilot

Hello Discovery, Management is requesting that foundation engineering teams consider tracking how much time we are spending on "maintenance" vs. "new work". As a first step in that direction, we have been asked to categorize our work into those two buckets. This should not require a lot of effort,