Hi Jan,
[cc discovery mailing list]
I'm glad you reach out to this list because I'm very interested to learn
more about this session.
The closest report we have concerning usage of search special syntax is
an analysis done to classify zero result rate by query feature[1].
Unfortunately this analysis is not focused on search special syntax and
address only few of the keywords supported by CirrusSearch.
I created a ticket to learn more about this. Once resolved we will just
have to wait to gather some data and we will be able to provide this
information.
PS. If you more info about what happened during this session it'd be
much appreciated.
Thanks!
David.
[1]
Hello Analytics,
Wikipedia’s search function exposes several modifiers
(
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch)
On the recent German Wikicon there was a workshop on search and
several community members seemed to be enthusiastic about these functions.
I wonder if there is existing information about the current use of
such queries. I did some research, but I could not find out much.
Such information could help to improve the search function, since
sometimes a few modifiers are heavily used (despite them being hard to
access) and could e.g. be exposed via the user interface.
Jan
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