Hi Michael, It's just searching on Wikipedia for now, as the Structured Data project on Commons is just ramping up.
Cheers, Deb -- deb tankersley irc: debt Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Michael Maggs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > You've mentioned searching on "Wikipedia" there. Did you mean "Wikimedia", > or are there still no Commons search improvements as yet? > > Michael > > Deborah Tankersley <mailto:[email protected]> >> 6 April 2017 at 11:15 pm >> tl;dr: Search continues to expand functionality by displaying more >> information on the search results page >> >> Ever started searching for something on Wikipedia and wondered—*really*, >> is >> >> that all that there is? Does it feel like you’re somehow playing hide and >> seek with all the knowledge that’s out there? And...wouldn’t it be great >> to >> see articles or categories that are similar to your search query and maybe >> some related images or links to other languages in which to read that >> article? Or, maybe you just want to read and contribute to projects other >> than Wikipedia but need a jump start with a few short summaries from >> sister >> projects. >> The Discovery Search team has been testing out some really cool new >> features that will enable some fun and fascinating clicking—down the >> rabbit >> hole of Wikipedia.[1] But first, let’s recap what we’ve been doing >> recently. >> >> We've been doing tons of work creating, updating, and finessing the search >> back end to enhance search queries. There have been many complex things >> that have happened, things like: adding ascii-folding and stemming, >> detecting when a visitor might be typing in a language that is different >> than the Wikipedia that they are on, switching from tf-idf to BM25, >> dropping trailing question marks, and updating to ElasticSearch version 5. >> [2][3][4][5][6][7] Whew! >> >> We have much more planned in the coming months—machine learning with >> ‘learning to rank’, investigating and deploying new language analyzers, >> and, after exhaustive analysis, removing quotes within queries by >> default.[8][9][10][11] We’ll also be working closely with the new >> Structured Data team in their brand new work on Commons.[12][13] >> >> We also want to improve the part that our readers and editors interface >> with: the search results page! We started brainstorming during the late >> summer of 2016 on what we could do to make search results better—to easily >> find interesting, relevant content and to create a more intuitive viewing >> experience.[14] We designed and refined numerous ideas on how to improve >> the search results page and received lots of good feedback from the >> community.[15] >> >> Empowered by the feedback, we began testing starting with a display of >> results from the Wikimedia sister projects next to the regular search >> results.[16] The idea for this test was to enable discovery into other >> projects—projects that our visitors might not have known about—by >> displaying interesting results in small snippets. The sidebar display of >> the sister projects borrows from a similar feature in use on the Italian, >> Catalan and French Wikipedias. We've run two A/B tests on the sister >> project search results with detailed analysis and, after a bit of final >> touches to the code, we will release the new functionality into production >> on all Wikipedias near the end of April 2017. >> >> Our next A/B test will be to add additional information and related >> results >> for each search query. This will be in the form of an ‘explore similar’ >> link that, when someone interacts with the link, an expanded display will >> appear with related pages, categories and links to the article in other >> languages—all of which might lead to further knowledge discovery.[17] We >> know that not every search query will return exactly what folks were >> looking for, but we feel that adding links to similar, but related >> information would be helpful and, possibly, super interesting! >> >> We also plan on doing a few more A/B tests in the coming year: >> * Test a new display that will show the pronunciation of a word with its >> definition and part of speech—all from existing data in Wiktionary. >> Initially this will be in English only. >> * Test placing a small image (from the article) next to each search result >> that is displayed on the page. >> * Test an additional future using a new auto completion metadata display >> in >> the search box that is located on the top right of most pages in >> Wikipedia, >> similar to what happens on the Wikipedia.org portal.[18] >> >> For the more technical minded, there is a way to test out these new >> features in your own browser. To display the sister project search >> results, >> it will require a bit of URL manipulation; but for the explore similar and >> Wiktionary widget, you can modify your common.js file to test an early >> version of the features. Detailed information is available on >> MediaWiki.org.[19] >> >> Once the testing, analysis and feedback cycle is done for each new >> feature, >> we’d like to slowly implement them into production on all Wikipedias >> throughout the rest of the year. We’re really hoping that these >> enhancements to how search works will further the usefulness of search and >> make our readers and editors more productive. >> >> Cheers from the Discovery Search team! >> >> [1] https://xkcd.com/214/ >> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/R >> e-Ordering_Stemming_and_Ascii-Folding_on_English_Wikipedia >> [3] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/27/wikipedia-language-search/ >> [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf >> [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi_BM25 >> [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Drop >> ping_Final_Question_Marks_in_the_Top_10_Wikipedias >> [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154501 >> [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_to_rank >> [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154511 >> [10] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:From_ >> Zero_to_Hero_-_Anticipating_Zero_Results_From_Query_ >> Features,_Ignoring_Content.pdf >> [11] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/ >> Notes/Quotes_and_Questions >> [12] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data >> [13] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/09/sloan-foundation-struc >> tured-data/ >> [14] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements >> [15] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_ >> Search_Result_Improvements >> [16] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_ >> Result_Improvements/Testing#A.2FB_test:_Add_cross-wiki_ >> search_results_in_a_right_hand_sidebar >> [17] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_ >> Result_Improvements/Testing#A.2FB_test:_Add_.27explore_simil >> ar.27_pages_and_ >> categories_for_search_results >> [18] https://www.wikipedia.org/ >> [19] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_ >> Result_Improvements/self-guided_testing >> >> >> -- >> deb tankersley >> irc: debt >> Product Manager, Discovery >> Wikimedia Foundation >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik >> i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik >> i/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik > i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
