Can we call you "Discovery Dan"? ;) Thanks for working on improving search results.
Pine On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > As part of our goal to reduce the zero results rate > < > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q1_Goals#Search > >, > the Discovery Department is currently running an A/B test to try different > parameters for the search suggester. We're hoping that our new parameters > will give users more suggestions without decreasing their quality. > > The reason we've chosen to tweak the suggestions is because of our recent > work <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105202> to automatically run > queries for the user if they get zero results but have a suggestion. The > purpose of this A/B test is to determine whether this has significant > impact towards achieving our goal or not. > > This is the first A/B test that the Discovery Department has run, so we're > still ironing out the process. We hope to run many more A/B tests in the > future. > > For further information on this, please review the associated Phabricator > task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108103>. > > If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. > > Thanks, > Dan > > -- > Dan Garry > Lead Product Manager, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
