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FYI: Minor change to Search phabricator workboards
by Kevin Smith 26 Aug '16

26 Aug '16

Today, we renamed #Discovery-Search-Backlog to #Discovery-Search, converted #Discovery-Search-Sprint to be a "milestone" within it, and renamed the milestone to just "Current work". This aligns with the same change we made with the #Discovery-Analysis project workboards a couple weeks ago. The visible effects are: - In #Discovery-Search, there is now a "Current work" column at the far right. It lists everything in the milestone that was currently named "sprint". - You can drag items into or out of the milestone column, and the appropriate project tags will be added/removed. - If you manually add either the Discovery-Search or Current work project to a task, phabricator will automatically remove the other one. - The "sprint' board name now is now displayed as "Discovery-Search (Current work)" Note that the sequence of tasks in the "Current work" column has no relationship or effect on where that task appears within the Current work workboard. If you have any questions or concerns, let me know. Kevin Smith Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [discovery] [Translators-l] Translations requested: "showing results from"
by Deborah Tankersley 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Hi Stryn, We really only need these languages to be translated for: Portuguese: PT, EN, RU, HE, AR, ZH, KO, EL Japanese: JA, EN, RU, KO, AR, HE As those are the only languages that we're looking for on the PT and JA wiki sites in order to determine if the user typed in one of those languages. We didn't enable the feature for ALL languages. Hope that helps! Cheers, Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery IRC: debt Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Stryn <strynwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm, there is really no easier way to translate those? > > Showing results from [[:als:Main_Page|Alemannic Wikipedia]]. > Showing results from [[:cbk-zam:Main_Page|Chavacano Wikipedia]] > > There are many languages where I don't know the Finnish translation, so I > would need to Google them first. > > Do we have system messages for language names? Like "Chavacano"? > Then if do, would only need to translate the "showing results from" part > and the rest could come from the system message? Or is it too complex? > > ... Ok I just found it, we have messages "MediaWiki:Project-localized- > name-akwiki/fi", can't we merge in some way those messages? > Now we have messages for "Wikimedia Project Names" and "Wikimedia > Interwiki Search Results". I mean it just makes so much work for > translators to translate those both. > We can't use directly the messages from the "Wikimedia Project Names" > groups for interwiki search texts because of conjugates, but something > like "Showing results from: {{MediaWiki:Project-localized-name-akwiki/fi}}" > would be nice. > > *Stryn* > > *Suomenkielisen Wikipedian ylläpitäjä & osoitepaljastaja / Admin and > checkuser on the Finnish Wikipedia* > > *Wikidatan ylläpitäjä / Admin on Wikidata* > > *Meta-Wikin ylläpitäjä / Admin on Meta-Wiki* > *Ylivalvoja / Steward* > > 2016-08-18 22:45 GMT+03:00 Deborah Tankersley <dtankersley(a)wikimedia.org>: > >> >> The Discovery team has been making good progress in enabling cross >> language search results on several wiki's and now we need help in >> translating a phrase: "*showing results from"*. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Translators-l mailing list > Translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l > >

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2016-08-15
by Chris Koerner 20 Aug '16

20 Aug '16

Hello again, Here is the Discovery department's weekly status update for the week starting 15 August. == Discussions == * Search team met for a couple hours on Aug 17th to talk about how we can search across wiki projects (backend) and how to display them to end users (frontend). This will involve community involvement for A/B tests and user testing for how satisfied they are with the presentation and ordering/weighting of the results * Trey finished an analysis of the potential effects of adding ascii-folding to French Wikipedia (similar to the earlier analysis for English Wikipedia). The French case turns out to be much more complex, with a bigger impact, and more surprises. [1] * Analysis discussions have been plentiful this week around how to show portal pageviews more accurately [2] and how to show what languages visitors clickthrough to from the portal. [3] More to come! == Events and News == * We deployed an update to the Wikipedia portal [4] - there was also a blog post about it [5], as well as some social media posts on Facebook [6] and on Twitter [7] while also sent to a few mailing lists (wikitech-l, wikitech-ambassadors, discovery). Based on feedback from the blog post, we've added in 4 new tickets for (mostly) small updates to the portal: ** update 'read in your language' phrase [8] ** update the meta description for the portal page [9] ** update the phrase to be centered under Wikipedia on mobile devices [10] ** request additional translations to be done for the remaining (currently English only) text on the portal page [11] * We also found a way to optimize the images on the portal even mo' better [12] * We've been fixing various Elasticsearch instablities and keeping everything up and running as best we can. [13] * Requested additional translations from the community for the new search language detection and results returned (phrase: showing results from) [14] == Other Noteworthy Stuff == * We've been onboarding our newest Discovery team member, Chelsy (on our Analysis team), and she's making great progress so far! [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Adding_Ascii-Folding… [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143045 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140816 [4] https://www.wikipedia.org/ [5] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/16/wikipedia-portal-update/ [6] https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/posts/10154326175038346 [7] https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/765598299063627776 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143244 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143239 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143241 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143338 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143208 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142506 [14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143355 ---- 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

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Re: [discovery] Reverse implementation of Wikipedia seeks to speak your language
by Deborah Tankersley 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

Hi Ravi, Thanks for writing about this reverse use case for our new language search detection, it is an interesting point. I'm not sure that we'd want to automatically add in the English wikidata links to all the language wiki's because I'm not sure that those users would want that, especially in the wiki's that use the Latin alphabet. For instance - on the Tamil Wikipedia, would users search for 'wolf' or are they really looking for a Latin transliteration of the Tamil word for wolf? If so, it would mean that the search would be trying to phonetically match English queries to non-English articles. For names - this transliteration is often the same, but for other things they're generally not the same at all. I've cc'd the Discovery email list to see if there are additional thoughts and feedback on this question. Cheers, Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery IRC: debt Wikimedia Foundation On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Ravi <ravishankar.ayyakkannu(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Regarding https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/27/wikipedia-language-search > : > > There is actually a need for a reverse use case. If someone searches in > English in Tamil Wikipedia, it should detect the correct Tamil article. > This can be implemented using Wikidata links. Many non-roman script > (especially, indic language users) language Wikipedia users search in > English inside the search box. They actually hope to see an article in > their own language. Just that they could not type in their own language. > There are some Wikipedias which actually create 1000s of redirects with > English titles to solve this problem. > > Ravi >

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Re: [discovery] [Wiki-research-l] Looking for Wikipedia search queries
by Tilman Bayer 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

CCing the WMF Search and Discovery mailing list (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery ) On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Felix Engelmann <fengelmann(a)uni-koblenz.de> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I’m currently writing by bachelor thesis at University Koblenz, Germany. The goal is to improve Wikipedia search by exploiting the text structure of Wikipedia articles. To conduct unbiased user studies I need real world queries so I can compare the novel algorithms agains the currently used ones. Are there any query logs existing which I can use for this purpose? > > Thanks for your help! > Felix Engelmann > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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Opening the door to a new look...a Wikipedia.org Portal Page Update
by Deborah Tankersley 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

Everyone who uses the wikipedia.org <https://www.wikipedia.org/> [1] portal is familar with the look of the page: a beautiful puzzle globe encirled by the top ten viewed languages; a long list with Wikipedias in hundreds of languages that can all be read and explored; the search box that can make queries in nearly any language; and a compilation of related Wikimedia projects. Over the last eight months, the Wikimedia Foundation's Portal team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal> [2], part of the Discovery department <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery> [3], has been busy improving the discoverability of information within the portal to make it more contemporary and easier to use. To start, we’ve updated the search box. When you are entering a query, you will now see images and metadata that correspond to your search <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia,org-searchbox_highlight-A…> [4], and you're also free change the search language without leaving the page. We’ve also optimized the portal site, making it load faster by utilizing smaller sized images and streamlining the page code. A fairly inconspicuous change to the page will immediately detect your browser’s preferred (or default) language and rearrange the top ten links to display those languages first, along with the remaining top ten viewed wiki’s by language, around the globe. In this example <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AWikipedia.org-globe-sorted-langua…> [5], The Free Encyclopedia is displayed in Portuguese, since it is the browser’s first preferred language and English is the second. Here is a helpful site <https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-priorities> [6] that explains how to change your preferred language on various browsers. We’ve also added sister project descriptions <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia.org-sister-projects-text_…> [7], located in the page’s footer, which will hopefully spark curiosity as to what a person might find when they visit those individual projects. The look and feel of the long list of every available language wiki (sorted by article count) has been modernized and placed inside an elegant drop down <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia.org-language-dropdown_scr…> [8]. This new feature makes finding your language wiki a bit easier on the eyes as well as providing easy access on any device. We hope you enjoy using the new portal page! You can view a short video <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Wikipedia.org-new-layou…> [9] that shows some of these new features. *And, if you don’t quite remember what the old Wikipedia portal site looked like before we made any changes, here’s a reminder <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia.org-01Jan2016.png> *[10]. Cheers from the Discovery Portal Team! [1] https://www.wikipedia.org/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia,org- searchbox_highlight-Aug2016_screenshot.png [5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AWikipedia.org- globe-sorted-languages_screenshot.png [6] https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-priorities [7] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia.org- sister-projects-text_screenshot.png [8] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia.org- language-dropdown_screenshot.png [9] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/ Wikipedia.org-new-layout_movie-Aug2016.ogg [10] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia.org-01Jan2016.png -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery IRC: debt Wikimedia Foundation

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2016-08-08
by Chris Koerner 13 Aug '16

13 Aug '16

Greetings, Here is this week's update from the Discovery department. * Trey did a quick analysis of the effects of putting ascii-folding (mostly removing ᶁỉäçȑîṭĭčś) before stemming (making it so searching for "jump" finds "jumps", "jumped", and "jumping") in English Wikipedia. Overall, it's a net positive! [1] * Blog post on our recent release of stripping question marks from search queries was released on Thursday, Aug 11. [2] * Stas created a nice demo of integrating WDQS and the vega graph designer (click the download button), and demo'd three other WDQS GUI improvements in this month's CREDIT showcase. [3] [4] * Our newest member of the Discovery Department started this Monday: Chelsy! :) [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Re-Ordering_Stemming… [2] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/11/question-marks-search/ [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F4346786 [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOj6nDbdPMA&t=53s ---- 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

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Code review norms
by Kevin Smith 12 Aug '16

12 Aug '16

Another team at the foundation has published a list of code repositories they manage and/or monitor, along with norms for reviewing code[1]. Should Discovery create something similar? [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Code_review_s… Kevin Smith Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation

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Announcement: Jan Drewniak shifting focus to Desktop Search
by Katie Horn 12 Aug '16

12 Aug '16

Hello! We’re pleased to announce that Jan Drewniak, a Discovery Department User Experience Engineer, will be shifting to working on improving the user interface and experience of search on desktop. He has been working primarily on the wikipedia.org portal site. What does this mean for the future of wikipedia.org? Let’s first review what we’ve done so far, just in this quarter (July - August 2016): Jan worked on internationalization and localization of the portal so that it could be translated easily (including the sister project descriptive texts via translatewiki <https://translatewiki.net/>), pushing minor bug fixes and enhancements as well as updating the articles by language statistics. In addition, Jan also helped design and code the new portal page layout (based on several prior successful A/B tests and community input) to production. Jan will continue to maintain the portal by fixing bugs, adding minor enhancements and performing regular statistics updates; which is expected to take (on average) a couple of hours a week. Otherwise, we are not planning to do any significant new work on the portal for the next couple of quarters. As per the annual plan <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery#Wikipedia.org_portal>, the Discovery Portal Team committed to continue to improve the wikipedia.org page. We plan to resume that work in late Q3 and Q4 (March - July 2017). What interface improvements will be made to search on desktop? There’s been a lot of advances in search interfaces in Wikimedia in the last few years. For example, the mobile apps, mobile web, wikipedia.org, VisualEditor, and Flow now use imagery and short descriptions to enhance findability. With Jan’s help, we expect to launch similar improvements on desktop as a beta feature, to gather feedback and collect data. Jan will also be working on tidying up the interface of our recent launch of search language detection <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/27/wikipedia-language-search/> to make it more clear to searchers what’s happening. Thank you! If you have any questions, please let us know. Katie Horn, Director, Discovery Dan Garry, Lead Product Manager, Discovery

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Re-Ordering Stemming and Ascii-Folding on English Wikipedia
by Trey Jones 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

David and I had a discussion about moving ascii-folding to come before stemming on English Wikipedia. It seemed like a good idea, but we decided we should run some tests before implementing it, just to be sure. Turns out it is a good idea! Much more detail: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Re-Ordering_Stemming… We won't deploy it until we deploy BM25 later in the year, since it requires a full re-index of English Wikipedia, as does BM25. That's something we should only do once. —Trey Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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