Thanks to Eran for pointing this out and thanks to David for doing it! :) I've moved the ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134978> to our current work board and into the 'needs review' column.
Cheers, Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery IRC: debt Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 2:18 AM, David Causse <dcau...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Thanks Eran, > > I completely forgot to mention this feature in the status update. > > I hope to be able to build a test index very soon so we can start > evaluating this new feature. > David. > > > Le 10/09/2016 à 11:23, Eran Rosenthal a écrit : > > Thanks Deborah for the update. > > Just to mention another interesting feature (implemented but yet > evaluated/activated) - dcausse have implemented ability to show search > results also based on the DEFAULTSORT. (T134978 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134978>) > E.g when you search for Putin (and not Vladimir Putin) you will get > suggestion for Vladimir Putin (even if there is no redirect from Putin), as > its defaultsort is Putin, Vladimir. > This feature may have high impact once (and if) it is activated. > > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 1:44 AM, Deborah Tankersley < > dtankers...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Here is the week's update from the Discovery department - enjoy the read >> and your weekend! >> >> == Discussions == >> * Trey completed the analysis for optimizing language identification for >> the Dutch Wikipedia (nlwiki). The results were good (F0.5 = 82.3%) but not >> great. The small proportions of queries in the Romance languages and in >> German led to many more false positives than true positives and so they had >> to be excluded. Future work on improving confidence may help. [1] >> * We could use help translating (via translatewiki) the relevant "showing >> results from" messages into Dutch. We'll need English, Chinese, Arabic, >> Korean, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, and Russian translations. [2] >> * The Analysis team had a discussion on how to use better wording for >> phrases like "users were 1.07 times more likely to do X" and decided on >> using phrases similar to "we can expect 2-9 more sessions to click on a >> search result when they have the new feature" [3] >> * The Search team wrapped up research into the ElasticSearch >> instabilities on the eqiad search cluster that occurred on Aug 6, 2016; >> nothing conclusive was found. [4] >> >> >> == Events and News == >> >> === Interactive === >> * <maplink> has been enabled on all wikis (announced via email to >> wikitech-l) [5] >> * Geoshapes data service is now integrated into all maps [6] >> >> === Search === >> * Turned off BM25 A/B test, awaiting analysis [7] >> * Pushed into production a change that implemented ascii-folding for >> French [8] >> * Improved balance of nodes across rows for ElasticSearch eqiad cluster >> [9] >> >> === Portal === >> * Currently blocked on this check-in to gerrit [10] >> >> >> == Other Noteworthy Stuff' == >> * Our elasticsearch clusters now have "row aware shard allocation". This >> means that we can theoretically lose one row of servers in our datacenter >> and still serve search traffic. [11] >> * The Search team sent out a request for comment article that was posted >> to various Village Pumps asking for it to be translated. [12] >> ** This was in reference to the cross-wiki search results new >> functionality and design articles on MediaWiki. [13], [14] >> >> >> == Did you know? == >> * A study came out yesterday showing that giraffes are actually four >> distinct species, rather than one (article and BBC report). [15], [16] >> ** Of course, the English and German Wikipedia pages on giraffes have >> already been updated! [17], [18] >> >> >> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/T >> extCat_Optimization_for_plwiki_arwiki_zhwiki_and_nlwiki >> [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143354 >> [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140187 >> [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142506 >> [5] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-Se >> ptember/086490.html >> [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartograph >> er#GeoShapes_external_data >> [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143588 >> [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144429 >> [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143685 >> [10] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/306241/ >> [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143571 >> [12] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DTankersley_(WMF)/ >> translation_request_for_cross-wiki_search_results >> [13] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements >> [14] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result >> _Improvements/Design >> [15] http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30787-4 >> [16] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37311716 >> [17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe >> [18] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe >> >> >> ---- >> >> >> The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on >> Mediawiki.org: >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates >> >> >> Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as Easy or volunteer >> needed in Phabricator: >> [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R >> [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R >> >> >> Cheers! >> >> -- >> Deb Tankersley >> Product Manager, Discovery >> IRC: debt >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discovery mailing list >> discov...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing > listdiscovery@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > > > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > discov...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
