Also of note: the completion suggester was used as part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-03-30/Technology_report thanks to its evangelization at metrics meeting this week. Yay! --scott
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Chris Koerner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > Here is the Discovery department's weekly status update. > > * Q4: April - June 2016 > < > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discovery > > > draft goals are available for review. > * Discovery hosted an IRC office hour > < > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discovery > > > to give community members a chance to talk to Discovery staff about what > we're working on. > * Team members presented at the WMF monthly Metrics meeting > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_HKdo4i-QM> (the whole thing is worth > watching, but Discovery starts at 34:50 > <https://youtu.be/Q_HKdo4i-QM?t=34m50s>). > * Zero result rates with new completion suggester have decreased > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2016-March/000990.html>. > * Wikipedia.org Portal stats are moving in the right direction > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2016-March/001004.html>! > ** Related: Wikipedia Portal clickthrough rates & section usage vary by > English vs non-English speakers > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2016-March/001005.html>. > * A popularity score based on page views has been loaded into the > production elasticsearch cluster for use in improving search relevance. > ** First tests will be run with the completion suggester. > * Portal A/B testing page > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal_A/B_testing> created > and linked to new Portal page > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal>. > * A Portal A/B test started <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121567> on > March 22, 2016 and will run until approximately April 5, 2016. > > Feedback and suggestions on this weekly update are welcome. > > The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on Mediawiki.org > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates > > -- > Yours, > Chris Koerner > Community Liaison - Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- (http://cscott.net) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
