Hello,
A few updates from the Discovery department this week.
Programming note: There will be no status update next week due to the
holiday. [0]
==Highlights==
* BM25 is now enabled on the ten wikis with largest traffic. This improves
numerous relevance issues in search queries. [1]
* The Interactive Team's roadmap was finalized in Nov 2016 for FY
2016/2017. [2]
* You can now search for file properties such as file size and and file
type on Commons. See the documentation for more information. [3]
==Discussions==
* The Interactive and Analysis team had a good discussion on KPIs and
moving forward with logging what is needed [4]
* Lots of great analysis and discussions about using BM25 on languages with
spaces, [5]
=== Search ===
* BM25 is now enabled on the ten wikis with largest traffic. This improves
numerous relevance issues in search queries. [6]
* You can now search for file properties such as file size and and file
type on Commons. [7]
* Fixed issue where search would behave unexpectedly if the query contained
the name of a namespace and a colon. [8] [9]
=== Analysis ===
* New Analysis: From Zero To Hero 2: Electric Boogaloo - or - how does
stripping out question marks improve search [10] [11]
[0]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi_BM25
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Interactive_Roadmap_2016-2017.pdf
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#File_properties_search
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149834#2804436
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147500
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147508
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144447
[8]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148344
[9]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150232
[10]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147216
[11]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Query_Features_and_Search_Performan…
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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
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation