[Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikitech] Improvements on the search results

...with apologies for cross-posting, but this is cool stuff! :) -- deb tankersley Program Manager, Engineering Wikimedia Foundation -- Forwarded message -- From: Léa Lacroix Date: Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 1:35 AM Subject: [Wikidata] Improvements on the

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Turn mapframe for English Wikipedia? We’re ready if you are

if you are To: wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Deborah Tankersley <dtankers...@wikimedia.org> In October 2017, English Wikipedia community members approved an RfC requesting implementation of mapframe <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technic

[Wikitech-ambassadors] New search results feature

In the ongoing effort to improve the discoverability of all the world's knowledge, the Discovery team is proposing an enhancement to the search results page on Wikipedia (Special:Search). [1][2] The goal of this feature is to display related content for each individual search result returned from

[Wikitech-ambassadors] New A/B test for sister project search results

Hello, tl;dr - we’re running a second test for displaying sister projects in the search results (with new link highlights) on 8 wikis for a week; starting today, with apologies for sending to multiple email lists. As a follow up to a recent A/B test

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Translation thanks

erstand from the alphabetical list of languages [4 > <https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessageGroupStats=D=wikimedia-portals=ru>], > i creat an account and translate some words, i hope it's the best way > best regars > > 2017-01-24 21:59 GMT+00:00 Deborah Tank

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Translation thanks

Hello, We want to thank everyone who have translated the text of the Wikipedia.org Portal page - it looks great! Here's an image that we used recently during the Discovery team's quarterly review. It displays the portal page with the browser's primary language set to

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [discovery] Request for testing / early adoption of new cross-wiki search results

the three biggest by volume, > according to a glance at the dashboards.) Some designs, like the result > list on the side, may need extra design work to be made RTL-friendly. > > —Trey > > Trey Jones > Software Engineer, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > > On Sat, Nov

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Request for testing / early adoption of new cross-wiki search results

> mention this in the VP of Persian Wikipedia (FA WP). > > If it is meant to only be shown for select users and has no impact for > others, I am wiling to volunteer myself as a tester. > > Huji > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Deborah Tankersley < > dtankers...@wikimedia.org&

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Request for testing / early adoption of new cross-wiki search results

Hello, The Discovery Search team is looking for a few language specific Wikipedia sites that would be interested in helping with A/B testing for cross-wiki search results. These tests would evaluate if adding search results across wiki projects in the same language would be useful, relevant, and

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Latest search updates

After extensive testing over the last several months using a new search query scoring method called BM25 (Best Matching) [1], we recently completed a limited ​production ​ release to the following top languages: English, German, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch and

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Opening the door to a new look...a Wikipedia.org Portal Page Update

Everyone who uses the wikipedia.org [1] portal is familar with the look of the page: a beautiful puzzle globe encirled by the top ten viewed languages; a long list with Wikipedias in hundreds of languages that can all be read and explored; the search box that can make

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Request for Feedback: Wikipedia.org to add mobile app download badges

Hello, The Discovery Portal team would like to add Wikipedia app download badges near the bottom of the wikipedia.org portal page and we're looking for your feedback. These new app badges will link to a free download of

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Wikipedia.org portal update - browser language detection and new A/B test

> sure that other people see their own language mentioned first and click on > it.) > > About the to be translated text from sister projects, can > translatewiki.net be used as for many other translations of system > messages? > > Thanks for the work! :-) > > Romaine > &g

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Wikipedia.org article statistics updated

Hello, Just a quick note: the Discovery Portal team updated the articles by language statistics on wikipedia.org this morning. I've uploaded a small screenshot to Commons that displays the new numbers.

[Wikitech-ambassadors] update: wikipedia.org portal

Hello, The Discovery Team recently added descriptive text to the Wikipedia.org page footer in order to give visitors a better idea of what the sister wiki projects are really all about. Check it out at www.wikipedia.org or view a mobile screen capture here

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

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 > >: >

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

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

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Portal Improvements wiki page update

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