Discovery/Status updates/2016-08-29
This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-08-29
Discussions
- Search: a small subsection of the team met to go over the upcoming Discernatron demo / luncheon and how we can improve the user interface for it
Events and News
- Analysis: add a 'most commonly clicked section per visit' metric on Portal dashboard
- Search: turned on BM25 A/B test after re-indexing the codfw seach cluster first
- Search: worked on updating the prose and user flow of the Discernatron introduction and instructions page
- Search: added patch to ensure timeouts always work on CirrusSearch
- Search: evaluated BM25 with new fulltext query and weighted sum with PaulScore and Discernatron
- Search: added patch to properly handle acronyms in fulltext query builder
- Search: tested and analyzed the effect of adding ascii-folding to fr.wiki
- Search: Use top_terms_blended_freq for wildcard queries
- Search: updated fulltext query builder to enhance title
- Search: turned off 'did you mean' on Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We tried to enable <maplink> on every Wikipedia, but ran into some blockers. Will try again next week. Track it at phab:T144062
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