Thanks, Pine - I've added your comment to the ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137312> about investigating cross-project searches.
Cheers, Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery IRC: debt Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > >
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