Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] Fwd: Improving search (sort of)

> > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 09:05:54 -0700 > From: Dan Garry > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Cc: A public mailing list about Wikimedia Search and Discovery > projects , Trey Jones > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] Fwd: Improving s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] Fwd: Improving search (sort of)

How hard would it be to ask for search feedback on search results, perhaps piloting with some small subset of zero-result searches? For 1/1000 ZRRs, prompt the user to provide some type of useful information about why there should be results, or if there ought to be, or what category of information

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] Fwd: Improving search (sort of)

> If I can get a few hundred people to click on a link like this , I can get any message I want on that list. (Curious? Did you click?) The message could be less anonymous and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] Fwd: Improving search (sort of)

Forwarded at the request of Trey Jones Hey James, When we first started looking at zero results rate (ZRR), it was an easy metric to calculate, and it was surprisingly high. We still look at ZRR because it is so easy to measure, and anything

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] Fwd: Improving search (sort of)

The "jurrasic world" example is a good one as it was "fixed" by User:Foxj adding a redirect https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jurrasic_world&action=history Agree we would need to be careful. The chance of many different IPs all searching for "DF198671E" is low but I agree not zero and we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] Fwd: Improving search (sort of)

On 15 July 2016 at 08:44, James Heilman wrote: > > Thanks for the in depth discussion. So if the terms people are using that > result in "zero search results" are typically gibberish why do we care if > 30% of our searches result in "zero search results"? A big deal was made > about this a while a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] Fwd: Improving search (sort of)

Hey Trey Thanks for the in depth discussion. So if the terms people are using that result in "zero search results" are typically gibberish why do we care if 30% of our searches result in "zero search results"? A big deal was made about this a while ago. If one was just to look at those search ter