[Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikitech] Improvements on the search results

...with apologies for cross-posting, but this is cool stuff! :) -- deb tankersley Program Manager, Engineering Wikimedia Foundation -- Forwarded message -- From: Léa Lacroix Date: Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 1:35 AM Subject: [Wikidata] Improvements on the search results To: "Discussio

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Turn mapframe for English Wikipedia? We’re ready if you are

...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Deborah Tankersley In October 2017, English Wikipedia community members approved an RfC requesting implementation of mapframe <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_159#Should_we_ask_for_mapframe_to_be_turned_on?> [1]—a feature that e

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Update on Discovery Projects

our best to answer them. Best regards, Deborah Tankersley, Product Manager, Discovery Erika Bjune, Engineering Manager, Search Platform Jon Katz, Reading Product Lead Toby Negrin, Interim Vice President of Product Victoria Coleman, Chief Technology Officer [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wi

[Wikitech-ambassadors] New search results feature

In the ongoing effort to improve the discoverability of all the world's knowledge, the Discovery team is proposing an enhancement to the search results page on Wikipedia (Special:Search). [1][2] The goal of this feature is to display related content for each individual search result returned from

[Wikitech-ambassadors] New A/B test for sister project search results

Hello, tl;dr - we’re running a second test for displaying sister projects in the search results (with new link highlights) on 8 wikis for a week; starting today, with apologies for sending to multiple email lists. As a follow up to a recent A/B test tha

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Translation thanks

ist of languages [4 > <https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessageGroupStats&x=D&group=wikimedia-portals&language=ru>], > i creat an account and translate some words, i hope it's the best way > best regars > > 2017-01-24 21:59 GMT+00:00 Deborah Tan

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Translation thanks

Hello, We want to thank everyone who have translated the text of the Wikipedia.org Portal page - it looks great! Here's an image that we used recently during the Discovery team's quarterly review. It displays the portal page with the browser's primary language set to

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [discovery] Request for testing / early adoption of new cross-wiki search results

hree biggest by volume, > according to a glance at the dashboards.) Some designs, like the result > list on the side, may need extra design work to be made RTL-friendly. > > —Trey > > Trey Jones > Software Engineer, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Request for testing / early adoption of new cross-wiki search results

ersian Wikipedia (FA WP). > > If it is meant to only be shown for select users and has no impact for > others, I am wiling to volunteer myself as a tester. > > Huji > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Deborah Tankersley < > dtankers...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >&

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Request for testing / early adoption of new cross-wiki search results

Hello, The Discovery Search team is looking for a few language specific Wikipedia sites that would be interested in helping with A/B testing for cross-wiki search results. These tests would evaluate if adding search results across wiki projects in the same language would be useful, relevant, and a

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Latest search updates

After extensive testing over the last several months using a new search query scoring method called BM25 (Best Matching) [1], we recently completed a limited ​production ​ release to the following top languages: English, German, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch and Arabi

[Wikitech-ambassadors] New functionality: cross-wiki search results

The Discovery Search Team wants to enable search results ​on Wikipedia ​ that will include articles ​ ​ gathered across all sister wiki ​​ projects – within the same language – but we need your feedback.​ ​​ ​Please read t he specifics of how this new functionality

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Opening the door to a new look...a Wikipedia.org Portal Page Update

Everyone who uses the wikipedia.org [1] portal is familar with the look of the page: a beautiful puzzle globe encirled by the top ten viewed languages; a long list with Wikipedias in hundreds of languages that can all be read and explored; the search box that can make q

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: [discovery] Stripping Question Marks From Wiki Searches is Now Live!

Forwarding... -- Forwarded message -- From: Trey Jones Date: Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 1:25 PM Subject: [discovery] Stripping Question Marks From Wiki Searches is Now Live! To: A public mailing list about Wikimedia Search and Discovery projects < discov...@lists.wikimedia.org> *Stripp

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Wikipedia seeks to speak your language

Using language detection to search the right Wikipedia Wikipedia readers speak many languages, so it’s not a surprise that sometimes they search for phrases not in the language of the wiki that they’re currently reading. This, unfortunately, can lead to poor search results. A recent survey we comp

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Request for Feedback: Wikipedia.org to add mobile app download badges

Hello, The Discovery Portal team would like to add Wikipedia app download badges near the bottom of the wikipedia.org portal page and we're looking for your feedback. These new app badges will link to a free download of t

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Wikipedia.org portal update - browser language detection and new A/B test

ther people see their own language mentioned first and click on > it.) > > About the to be translated text from sister projects, can > translatewiki.net be used as for many other translations of system > messages? > > Thanks for the work! :-) > > Romaine > &

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Wikipedia.org portal update - browser language detection and new A/B test

the page. Because large > parts of the word visit Wikipedia through internet cafés and computers > elsewhere, I would suggest in the top right/left corner an option to change > the language. > > And one final question: will the bottom section of the page also be > translatable? >

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Wikipedia.org portal update - browser language detection and new A/B test

Hello, The Discovery team recently updated the wikipedia.org portal page to detect what the visitor's browser's preferred language(s) are and then arrange the language links around the globe to match those language preferences. Earlier this year, we ran a successful A/B test

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Wikipedia.org article statistics updated

Hello, Just a quick note: the Discovery Portal team updated the articles by language statistics on wikipedia.org this morning. I've uploaded a small screenshot to Commons that displays the new numbers.

[Wikitech-ambassadors] update: wikipedia.org portal

Hello, The Discovery Team recently added descriptive text to the Wikipedia.org page footer in order to give visitors a better idea of what the sister wiki projects are really all about. Check it out at www.wikipedia.org or view a mobile screen capture here

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

> > Thanks, SJ > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Michael Jahn > wrote: > > > I've played around a bit. Feels very cool! > > Michael > > > > 2016-03-11 3:27 GMT+01:00 Deborah Tankersley >: > > > > > Hello! > > > > > >

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [discovery] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

="license" href="//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">), no > license is displayed to the user. > > And some questions: > > * Are you planning to make something similar with wikimedia.org? > > * Do you follow a specific order when linking t

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

Hello! I'm very pleased to announce that we've updated the Wikipedia.org portal page with a brand new search box that is more prominent and will now display meta data with images (as available) in the search results (link

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Portal Improvements wiki page update

Hi all, I've made multiple updates of text, images, ideas and more on the Wikipedia.org portal improvements page on Meta, go check it out! The page now displays what the Discovery Portal team has