Discovery March 2016

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Re: [discovery] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Wikipedia.org portal page update!
by David Abián 12 Mar '16

12 Mar '16

It looks great, well done. However, I leave some comments: * With my configuration, contents slightly overflow the page when using a window of between 481 and 560 px wide. I would increase the border between mobile and desktop view from 480 px to ~550 px (or would modify contents so that we didn't need to modify that limit). http://davidabian.com/screenshots/wikimedia/wikipedia-org-485.png * Having written a topic in the search box, the selected summary overflows the box after clicking. http://davidabian.com/screenshots/wikimedia/wikipedia-org-results-overflowi… * While a license (CC BY-SA 3.0) is specified in the HTML (<link rel="license" href="//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">), no license is displayed to the user. And some questions: * Are you planning to make something similar with wikimedia.org? * Do you follow a specific order when linking to the sister projects? I see that wikipedia.org and wikimedia.org show the projects in a different order. Thank you! El 11/03/16 a las 19:18, Deborah Tankersley escribió: > Hello! > > I'm very pleased to announce that we've updated the Wikipedia.org > <http://wikipedia.org/> portal page with a brand new search box that is > more prominent and will now display meta data with images (as available) > in the search results (link > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_searchbox_with_metadata.png>). > > This was a large effort by the Discovery Portal team to develop a > JavaScript-only version of the language picker, so that JavaScript > enabled browsers will see all the new meta data. Alongside that effort, > we also ensured that in JavaScript (JS) disabled browsers (or older > Internet Explorer versions), our visitors won't have a bad experience > when choosing a language to search in. (Note 1: in older IE versions and > JS disabled browsers, the type-ahead and meta data search results > information will not be displayed.) > > We also implemented a shorter language code (ie: EN for English, ES for > Spanish, etc) to allow for more characters to be typed into the search > box. When a user toggles the language selector, the full language name > will be displayed in the dropdown for easy finding of the language you > prefer to search in. For the more technical minded - I've also uploaded, > to Commons, a screenshot > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sample_browsers_tested.png> of > one of the ways we test our code, visually. > > We're interested in hearing your feedback or if you have any questions! > (Note 2: My apologies for not getting this email out yesterday, but I > had had issues with size limitations of my screenshots.) > > On behalf of the very happy Wikipedia.org Portal Team, > > Deb > -- > Deb Tankersley > Product Manager, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > Wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > -- David Abián - davidabian.com Vocal de Comunicación Wikimedia España Vega Sicilia, 2 47008 - Valladolid https://wikimedia.es Wikimedia España es una asociación sin ánimo de lucro española con CIF G-10413698 inscrita en el Registro Nacional de Asociaciones, Grupo 1, Sección 1, Núm. Nacional 597390. «Imagina un mundo en el que cada persona tenga acceso libre a todo el conocimiento»

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Re: [discovery] [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!
by Dan Garry 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

On 11 March 2016 at 16:09, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Perhaps you could do this w two queries, one to a composite index that is > only updated weekly. > Indeed, there are mechanisms that can make cross-wiki searching more feasible. In fact, one mechanism we are in the very early stages of exploring is merging all the projects in a given language into a single index, so that one could search *all* projects in a language, rather than just a single project in a given language. I have no timeline here; as I said, we're in the very early stages, and of course we have other work on the go at the same time. > > Additionally, it would likely return you a bunch of really irrelevant > results, > > Make this opt-in, add a different background color for results from the > all-language index, & divide their search-relevance by a > language-prominence factor... > I plan to worry more about the user experience implications that I mentioned once we're a bit closer to solving the technical feasibility questions. As you've shown, these are definitely solvable problems, but I don't want to put the cart before the horse, as it were. :-) Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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Weekly summary #1
by Chris Koerner 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

Hello, This is a quick summary of some of the things happening around Discovery in the past week. Note: This is our first week trying something like this. Feedback and suggestions are welcome. ==Events and News== * Completion Suggester will be coming to a few of the smaller wikis starting on March 10th <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Work/Completion_Suggest…> ==Other Noteworthy Stuff== * Interesting article from former WMF staffer Nik Everett (now at Elastic) on Loading Wikipedia's Search Index for Testing <https://www.elastic.co/blog/loading-wikipedia>. * Wikipedia.org portal page update! <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-March/083269.html> ==Did you know?== * Wikidata Query Service now has over 1 billion data elements (triples) <https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-query-service?panelId=7…> . ==Development== * Measuring scoring changes to search engine relevance based on user behavior * Upcoming AB test measure the effect of changing the boost on search phrase matching (brought to you by new measurement above) View the full update on-wiki at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2016_03_11 Help contribute to next week's update at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/Next -- Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation P.S. A big thanks to Lydia and the other Wikidata folks for leading the way. I unabashedly borrowed many templates from their weekly status updates <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates>.

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Re: [discovery] [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!
by Dan Garry 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

On 11 March 2016 at 10:52, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) <vp2007(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Failed my dream :( > > Any string in any language in any wikipedia project. How far is my dream? > I share your dream! :-) Unfortunately, the dream is quite far away from reality. Querying every search index would put a big performance strain on the search servers. Additionally, it would likely return you a bunch of really irrelevant results, so there's a lot of user experience implications that would need to be figured out as well. Discovery is not actively working on this at present. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikipedia.org portal page update!
by Deborah Tankersley 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

Hello! I'm very pleased to announce that we've updated the Wikipedia.org <http://wikipedia.org/> portal page with a brand new search box that is more prominent and will now display meta data with images (as available) in the search results (link <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_searchbox_with_metadata.png>). This was a large effort by the Discovery Portal team to develop a JavaScript-only version of the language picker, so that JavaScript enabled browsers will see all the new meta data. Alongside that effort, we also ensured that in JavaScript (JS) disabled browsers (or older Internet Explorer versions), our visitors won't have a bad experience when choosing a language to search in. (Note 1: in older IE versions and JS disabled browsers, the type-ahead and meta data search results information will not be displayed.) We also implemented a shorter language code (ie: EN for English, ES for Spanish, etc) to allow for more characters to be typed into the search box. When a user toggles the language selector, the full language name will be displayed in the dropdown for easy finding of the language you prefer to search in. For the more technical minded - I've also uploaded, to Commons, a screenshot <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sample_browsers_tested.png> of one of the ways we test our code, visually. We're interested in hearing your feedback or if you have any questions! (Note 2: My apologies for not getting this email out yesterday, but I had had issues with size limitations of my screenshots.) On behalf of the very happy Wikipedia.org Portal Team, Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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New search box on the portal and prefixsearch api call
by David Causse 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

Hi, first of all: congrats for this new search box! I noticed that you use action=query with both generator=prefixsearch and list=prefixsearch. IIRC when we looked at this (it was when we looked at the way some API consumers generates their requests) we noticed that it generates 2 prefixsearch queries on the backend. I think this adds unnecessary latency. Unfortunately I don't know why you need to use list and generator at the same time, is this a limitation of the API? If we can't fix the API call could we work on a cache at the backend level to avoid 2 elasticsearch queries? Thanks!

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Wikipedia.org portal page update!
by Deborah Tankersley 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Hello! I'm very pleased to announce that we've updated the Wikipedia.org <http://wikipedia.org/> portal page with a brand new search box that is more prominent and will now display meta data with images (as available) in the search results (see attached image). This was a large effort by the Discovery Portal team to develop a JavaScript-only version of the language picker, so that JavaScript enabled browsers will see all the new meta data. Alongside that effort, we also ensured that in JavaScript (JS) disabled browsers (or older Internet Explorer versions), our visitors won't have a bad experience when choosing a language to search in. (Note: in older IE versions and JS disabled browsers, the type-ahead and meta data search results information will not be displayed.) We also implemented a shorter language code (ie: EN for English, ES for Spanish, etc) to allow for more characters to be typed into the search box. When a user toggles the language selector, the full language name will be displayed in the dropdown for easy finding of the language you prefer to search in. For the more technical minded - I've attached a screenshot of one of the ways we test our code, visually. We're interested in hearing your feedback or if you have any questions! On behalf of the very happy Wikipedia.org Portal Team, Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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"Unbreak now!" task in sprint: cross-namespace redirects on Hungarian Wikipedia
by Dan Garry 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Hello! As a result of a user report <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch/CompletionSuggester#Does_n…>, I've filed T129545 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129545> and set the priority to "Unbreak now!". I've chatted with Erik about this briefly, and he said he'd investigate. I'm writing this to the list because I think it's good practice when super high priority stuff is dropped in the sprint. :-) Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikipedia.org portal - New search box deployed to beta, soon in production!
by Julien Girault 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

Hi everybody, Following up on last week's email, the team has made significant improvements to the *enhanced search box*: - We developed a JavaScript-only version of the language picker, on top of the previous patch, so that users who have JS enabled (93% of our traffic) get a nicer version of the language picker. - Shorter language code is displayed, allowing more space for text within the search input. - Triggers the native selector on mobile devices. - The search box looks better overall. Users who disable JavaScript, or are using old IE versions, get the native selector already presented in last email. *It's merged into master, and deployed on beta!* *Check it out:* http://www.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ *Deployment to production * (Phab ticket for reference: Epic T125472 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125472>) The patch has been submitted for Thursday's Evening SWAT (Thu 00:00–01:00 UTC, Wed 16:00–17:00 PST) <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Thursday.2C.C2.A0March.C2.A…> . Last chance to enjoy the "good old search" https://www.wikipedia.org/ ! Chris <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)> and Deborah <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:DTankersley_(WMF)> will answer any question or concern related to this deployment *Some screenshots:* *Modern browsers:* Chrome, JS: http://i.imgur.com/Jb8JVbd.png Chrome, no-JS: http://i.imgur.com/JcBfz2h.png (basic language picker because no JS) *IE browsers:* IE8, JS: http://i.imgur.com/Nef2rn6.png (basic language picker because old IE) IE9, JS: http://i.imgur.com/o1yrhcA.png (basic language picker because old IE) IE10, JS: http://i.imgur.com/OY6MVwJ.png IE11, JS: http://i.imgur.com/nQUk8fg.png *Note: the CSS for the suggestions needs some attention, currently seeing weird padding.* *Mobile browsers:* iOS, JS: http://i.imgur.com/7mbCKu6.png iOS, no-JS: http://i.imgur.com/F2rQpEE.png (basic language picker because no JS) Note that JS is required for the typeahead/suggestions feature (this is already the case with the current page, no regression). If you don't have JS, you will have to submit the form in order to get results. *Next A/B test: Use language detection to re-arrange the primary links to suit the user better* *Coming soon!* The team has also made significant progress, stay tuned! For the Wikipedia.org portal team, Julien.

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world's largest blind taste test?
by Deborah Tankersley 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

I saw this today and thought it very interesting - Kraft changed their mac n cheese recipe, last December, to be more healthful but didn't tell anyone until now. The full story <http://www.eater.com/2016/3/7/11173858/kraft-mac-and-cheese-different> and a few key excerpts: *Kraft announced that the revamped product would hit store shelves in January — but unbeknownst to customers, it quietly began selling the artificial-ingredient-free mac and cheese in December. (Only consumers who paid careful attention to the tiny print of the ingredients list on the back of the box might have seen the change.) Today, Kraft issued a self-laudatory press release revealing its little experiment — which it has deemed "the world's largest blind taste test" — and proclaiming that "fifty million boxes later ... people didn’t notice a difference."* *...* *"We constantly talk to our consumers and get feedback from them, and we knew they wanted to feel better about the ingredients they serve their families," Greg Guidotti, vice president of meals at Kraft Heinz, tells Eater. "We saw an opportunity in the marketplace to improve our ingredient line, but we didn't want make the change before we had the right recipe." While the company only announced its intentions to oust artificial ingredients from mac and cheese in April, Guidotti says they've in fact been working on the new recipe for more than three years.* *The idea to do a surreptitious switcheroo with the new mac and cheese was born out of the skeptical consumer response to Kraft's initial announcement that it was changing the recipe. "When we announced in April [that we were changing the recipe] there was excitement but also concern, so we saw it as an opportunity," Guidotti says. "We knew the recipe still tasted just as good as you expect from Kraft, but whenever you say you've changed something, consumers will say it probably won’t taste as good. Since we knew it tasted exactly the same, we wanted our fans to experience that for themselves without even being prompted."* Cheers, Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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