We had to shuffle a few things around in labs, the demo is now running at:

http://suggesty.wmflabs.org/suggest.html

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Dan Garry <dga...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Our initial tests of this suggestions API are incredibly promising at
> reducing the zero results rate: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109729
>
> More rigorous testing must be done before we can consider replacing
> prefixsearch with the suggestion API.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dan
>
> On 25 August 2015 at 15:38, Erik Bernhardson <ebernhard...@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> We have been working on a replacement autocompletion API that is more
>> forgiving than a strict prefix search.  The scoring algorithm's have a long
>> way to go but we have the first run through of building the completion
>> index for enwiki so i thought i would share:
>>
>> Here are a couple examples, feel free to change the text= around to other
>> things.
>>
>>
>> http://cirrus-browser-bot.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=cirrus-suggest&limit=100&text=white%20house
>>
>> http://cirrus-browser-bot.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=cirrus-suggest&limit=100&text=hotel%20cal
>>
>> http://cirrus-browser-bot.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=cirrus-suggest&limit=100&text=wikim
>>
>>
>> Don't stress out too much over the scoring yet, we know it needs some
>> work and have plans to integrate page view information in here to help more
>> popular articles rise the the top.
>>
>> Erik B
>>
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> Wikimedia Foundation
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