Interesting stuff.
I think they somewhat misused that 20% statistic, though. I followed that
link and it seems like the problem it refers to is tracking down
organization-internal info that isn't in a searchable format (hence the
suggestion of org-internal social media). People need wikis. ; )
There's also this:
Although the total size of the text corpus is large,
each team’s corpus is
relatively small and thus allows us to devote more computational resources
to each message during ranking.
That sounds kinda like "might not scale to big Wikipedias", alas. Bummer.
They also use a lot of features that aren't applicable to us,
unfortunately. But the relevance vs recency thing is indeed
thought-provoking.
Thanks for sharing, Erik—much appreciated!
—Trey
Trey Jones
Software Engineer, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Wes Moran <wmoran(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
"On average, 20% of a knowledge worker’s day is
spent looking for the
information they need to get their work done. If you think about a typical
work week, that means an entire day is dedicated to this task!"
Interesting way to look at it. Also interesting takes on recent v
relevant. Thanks for sharing.
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Erik Bernhardson <
ebernhardson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Might be interesting to look over
https://slack.engineering/search-at-slack-431f8c80619e
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