Thanks Deb. You might want to make a priority of cross-project search to Commons, since I believe that Jonathan (cc'd here) mentioned that multimedia search would be of particular interest to some Wikipedia readers according to his research.
Pine On Jul 4, 2016 02:21, "Deborah Tankersley" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pine, > > Thanks for reaching out with your questions. I'm hoping that what I've > written below will give you some answers of what we're working on. > > *tl;dr - we're working on it ;)* > > The Discovery Search team have been quite busy over the last few quarters > working on getting the backend quicker and more accurate in serving up > search results with our updated completion suggester > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch/CompletionSuggester> > and > it really does show on our dashboard for zero results > <http://discovery.wmflabs.org/metrics/#failure_rate> returned. However, > we still have lots of work to do, including updating the elasticsearch > cluster <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136001> and logstash > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136003>. > > We've got a quite a few tickets in Phabricator to investigate how we can > do searches across projects <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137312> > and languages. One such ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138958> > is to detect if the user used the 'wrong' keyboard when typing in their > search on the en/ru Wikipedias using a Russian/American keyboard. We also > have a TextCat demo <https://tools.wmflabs.org/textcatdemo/> that you > might want to check out and using wikidata aliases and descriptions > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117483> are also generally being > looked at. > > Additionally, on our backlog > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/discovery-search-backlog/> is to > improve 'fuzzy' full text <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135920> > searches to return more meaningful results. Because the autocomplete and > full text algorithms are very different, this can cause odd results in some > cases. One option we'll can take a look at is if the full text algorithm > doesn't return any results, run that same search through the completion > suggester. It would take additional time on the backend of course, to run > this additional search with the added difficulty in that the completion > suggester doesn't run the elasticsearch highlighter. > > We also are looking at how to handle question marks (?) in a search query > and to design a page that would display search results, across languages, > in a meaningful manner to our user, that might be able to show redirects > better as well. > > Whew...lots going on, so stay tuned! > > Cheers, > > Deb > > > -- > Deb Tankersley > Product Manager, Discovery > IRC: debt > Wikimedia Foundation > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Discovery, >> >> Following up on conversation from last week's Metrics Meeting: >> >> * If user 1 enters search term X in language A on a.wikipedia.org and >> there are no article or redirect title results on that wiki for X, can we >> show them search results for X automatically translated into other >> languages on wikis where an article or redirect does exist for the >> translated term? >> >> * If user 2 enters search term Y in language b on c.wikipedia.org and >> there are no article or redirect title results on that wiki for Y, can we >> show them search results for Y on b.wikipedia.org? >> >> * What is the status of integrating Wiktionary search results into >> Wikipedia search results? >> >> * Have there been any initiatives to integrate Wikivoyage, Wikispecies, >> Wikisource, Commons, and other project search results into Wikipedia search >> results, including with options for multilingual search as mentioned above? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Pine >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discovery mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > >
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