Awww… this is awesome! It works really well, I can't wait to see this deployed.
This is going to give a huge boost to the OpenRefine reconciliation service. Where can I learn about the internals of this jewel? (which search engine, what metrics are used to rank items, and so on). Antonin On 18/12/2017 18:23, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > Search Platform team would like to present a prototype test site of new > and improved Wikidata fulltext search: > > http://wikidata-wdsearch.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Search > > Please try your favorite searches on it and report whether it looks good > and which problems you notice. > > Important to note for this prototype: > > - The data in the search is imported from Wikidata index but not updated > from it after import, so it may be slightly out of date > > - The search is in English by default but you can try other languages by > using uselang parameter, e.g.: > http://wikidata-wdsearch.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?search=Wien&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1&uselang=de > Note that since it's a test site, this is probably the best way to test > non-English searches as logins etc. may not work there properly. > > - Search would work properly only for main & property namespace (0 and > 120). > > What kind of problems we are looking for? > > - Ranking and retrieval problems, i.e. result X appears too low or too > high in specific search, or does not appear at all (please tell us > specific search query and expected result) > > - UI problems - i.e. the ranking is fine but highlighting or label or > description is broken or look bad, or not highlighting the result that > should be highlighted > > Of course, if some search result worked spectacularly better for you, it > would be nice to know too :) > > What should work? > > Any search in Special:Search in main namespace and Property namespace > should produce sensible result. Searches without advanced syntax should > have better results than before, and search with advanced syntax (+, -, > *, quotes, etc.) should work no worse than before. > > Please note that this is a test wiki, so nothing else but search is > expected to work, including clicking on other links, editing, browsing > to other pages, etc. This is also a test site, so short disruptions > might be possible when we update or change things or fix bugs reported > by you :) > > How to provide feedback? > > Several ways are possible: > - Reply to this list or personally to me if you prefer > - On-wiki message on my talk page: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Smalyshev_(WMF) > - Talk to us on IRC: #wikimedia-discovery > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
