The Search Platform Team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds
office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come ask us anything about
Wikimedia search!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting (note that we're on daylight savings time, so
the time has shifted relative to GMT):
Date: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-9:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CEST
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww
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Hope to talk to you in a week!
Trey Jones
Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi,
I've put a couple pages on mw.org to start discussing about the problem we
are currently facing as to how extensions can interact with CirrusSearch
without stepping on each other toes.
To describe the problem briefly:
some extension provides additional data to the wiki structure (generally
through custom Content Handlers) and CirrusSearch itself is not aware of
the best ways to take benefits of this additional data to ameliorate
ranking or results display.
Cirrus has provided (organically) various hooks to let us build what we
have today:
- wikidata search integration for Entities, Properties & Lexemes
- search keywords
But as more and more integrations have to be done (SDoC) we need to step
back and decide on better ways to let extensions augment the search
experience.
Beware that the discussion at this stage may only be relevant to developers
who worked on these extensions. A page describes the current "query
construction" mechanism[1] (with an emphasis on parts that poses problems
at the moment) and a first list of use cases and a first set of
solutions[2].
This is just a starting point for the discussion.
Thanks for your input.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch/Query_Construction
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch/Query_Construction/Us…
The Search Platform Team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds
office hours the first Wednesday of each month. 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. Feel free to add
your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, March 6th, 2018
Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-9:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww
*N.B.:* Google Meet System Requirements
<https://support.google.com/meet/answer/7317473>
Trey Jones
Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation