The Search Platform Team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds
office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about
anything related to Wikimedia search!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 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
Join by phone in the US: +1 786-701-6904 PIN: 262 122 849#
Hope to talk to you in a week!
—Trey
Trey Jones
Sr. Computational Linguist, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC-4 / EDT
Hi everyone,
Last week I attended and presented at the virtual Celtic Knot Conference
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2020>. There were
plenty of interesting talks, some live, some pre-recorded, all now
available on YouTube; links are available on the “Main/Live program
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2020/Live_program>”
page, and the “Videos pool
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2020/Videos_pool>”
page.
I wanted to point out some of presentations and other things that might be
interesting:
- You can see a demo <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIeJ_0aqgPg> of
what the Growth Team has been up to with their newcomer task work that our
team has been supporting.
- There’s a workshop-like demo of the Lexeme project on Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDM5QJAJzNc>, which still has a long
way to go, but already has a *lot* of data.
- There’s also Lexeme-related tool in ToolForge called Ordia
<https://ordia.toolforge.org/>, which has all sorts of nifty
capabilities. A nice one is looking to see how many lexemes each
language has <https://ordia.toolforge.org/language/>.
- I had not previously heard of Wikidata Bridge
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge>, which aims to allow
people to edit Wikidata from infoboxes!
- A recent article from *Java Magazine* lists the 25 greatest Java apps
ever written
<https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/the-top-25-greatest-java-apps-ever-wr…>,
and #6 is “Wikipedia Search”, even though the Java bit is mostly
Elasticsearch and the “Wikipedia” part is mostly PHP. Still, it’s nice to
be appreciated.
- Amir has some nice ideas about how to make the Wikimedia Incubator
better <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdyzrDzD0qg>. One positive side
effect of his proposal might be better search on new wikis.
I don’t particularly recommend my talk
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi3-w9ne3zg> since it is a short version
of the same old overview of the basic kinds of text processing we can do
for search—unless you want to see a few more examples in Irish (I don’t try
to *pronounce* any of the Irish words, though, so it isn’t as entertaining
as it could have been).
I already got a line on some Breton stop words, and I’m going to look into
what we are doing for Breton as a 10% project.
—Trey
Trey Jones
Sr. Computational Linguist, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC-4 / EDT