The Search Platform Team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> will be holding
office hours the first Wednesday of each month, starting next week. Come
ask us anything about Wikimedia search!
We’re particularly interested in:
* Opportunities for collaboration—internally or externally to the Wikimedia
Foundation
* Challenges you have with on-wiki search, in any of the languages we
support
But we're happy to talk about anything search-related.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
Time: 16:00 GMT / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww
*N.B.:* Google Meet System Requirements
<https://support.google.com/meet/answer/7317473>
Hope to see you there!
—Trey
Trey Jones
Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
Reposting here! :)
Cheers,
Deb
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deb tankersley
program manager, engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
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From: Yaron Koren <yaron57(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 2:57 PM
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] New episode of Between the Brackets: "BTB Digest"
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <
mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
The latest episode of the MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets has been
released. This one just contains some highlights from previous episodes, so
you can get a condensed version of five recent episodes (featuring Stas
Malyshev, Remco De Boer, Dustin Phillips, Nikhil Kumar & Yashdeep Thorat,
and Bartosz Dziewonski) in just 20 minutes or so. You can listen to the
episode here:
http://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-20-btb-digest-3
-Yaron
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While at the conference this week I met up with an professor and he had an
interesting proposal. Essentially the idea would be they could build
containers (following our OSS requirements) that we could deploy, and for
some small percent of search traffic pass our top 100 results to their
container for reranking.
Certainly more details would have to be worked out, but does this seem
reasonable? Overall I still think working directly with academics can be
beneficial to our own work, although I'm not sure what our overhead would
be.
Hello!
I took some time to upload a first analysis of our Java based projects
to SonarCloud [1]. This is just experimentation at this point, but
there are a few interesting findings that should be corrected.
What's missing:
* run the analysis regularly, so that we can see trends
* host it on our own infrastructure instead of depending on SonarCloud
* some discussion on whether we agree with the metrics / issues
* lot more
Have fun!
Guillaume
[1] https://sonarcloud.io/organizations/wmftest/projects
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Guillaume Lederrey
Operations Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC+2 / CEST
Hi Everyone,
I'm at WikiConference NA today, and I was chatting with someone from OCLC
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC>, and he mentioned that BlazeGraph can
be configured to call out to a full-text search engine. It looks like it
only works with SOLR out of the box, but the documentation
<https://wiki.blazegraph.com/wiki/index.php/ExternalFullTextSearch> mentions
that Elasticsearch is a candidate search endpoint.
Obviously it wouldn't be worth doing any real work on investigating this
until the BlazeGraph/Amazon situation is clearer, and maybe Stas or others
have looked at it in the past and already know why it isn't worth the added
complexity, but there are some interesting use cases where combining full
text and SPARQL would be useful—for example if you are looking for a
person, you know part of their name, and some facts about them. In general,
any full-text search with additional structured data constraints.
Anyone already know anything about the capacity of BlazeGraph?
Thanks,
—Trey
Trey Jones
Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
The Search Platform Team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> will be holding
office hours the first Wednesday of each month, starting next week. Come
ask us anything about Wikimedia search!
We’re particularly interested in:
* Opportunities for collaboration—internally or externally to the Wikimedia
Foundation
* Challenges you have with on-wiki search, in any of the languages we
support
But we're happy to talk about anything search-related.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018
Time: 15:00 GMT / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww
*N.B.:* Google Meet System Requirements
<https://support.google.com/meet/answer/7317473>
See you there!
—Trey
Trey Jones
Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation