Discovery/Status updates/2018-06-04

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2018-06-04

Discussions

After lots of talk about stemmers getting committed and plugins getting deployed, the Slovak-language wikis have finally been *reindexed*, and stemming [1] is now happening on the Slovak wikis!

A few things from May that got missed:

Trey wrote up some potential applications of natural language processing (NLP) to on-wiki search [2]. We're still going through them to pick out a couple that we'll turn into projects, probably next quarter. Right now, spelling correction and entity extraction are high on the list, but more questions, comments, and suggestions are welcome.
Erik pulled 90 days worth of regular expression (regex) searches across all wikis, and Trey did a quick survey of the most common patterns. [3] There are a lot more regex searches than we thought—5.6 million in 90 days!—and three apparently automated processes (bots, apps, or tools of some kind) are responsible for more than 90% of the regex searches.

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