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, May 6th, 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 about a week!
—Trey
Trey Jones
Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC-4 / EDT
Routing to discovery@ where all the search people are.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 2:43 PM Kaartic Sivaraam <
kaarticsivaraam91196(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any MediaWiki API that could be used for a proper
> case-insensitive category title search? Or is this still something that
> doesn't exist yet?
>
> For some context, I'm asking this for a feature request[1] in the
> Commons Android app that asks for a case insensitive category title
> search. In case you're wondering where category search comes into
> picture in the app, adding appropriate categories for an image is part
> of the upload flow.
>
> I wonder that such an API doesn't exist yet for the following reasons:
>
> A) The exhaustive search for such an API wasn't fruitful. The closest we
> got was using `generator=search` with `srsearch=intitle:$SEARCH_TERM`
> and `srnamespace=14` (14 is the id for category namespace in Commons).
> But it's not a proper category search as it is essentially a search for
> pages existing in Category namespace. See [2] for why it's not a proper
> category search.
>
> B) I saw "T59302 Suggest case insensitive results when searching for
> categories to add"[3] which is still open. In particular the comment in
> the ticket pointed to by [4].
>
> So, is my understanding that an API for case-insensitive category title
> search doesn't exist correct? Or am I missing something?
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/3179
> [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59302#2707969
> [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59302
> [4]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59302#3977813
>
> Hoping you're safe,
> Sivaraam
>
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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, April 1st, 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 tomorrow!
Trey Jones
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Wikimedia Foundation
UTC-4 / EDT
Hi everyone,
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, March 4th, 2020
Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 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
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. Software Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC-5 / EST
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Jason Linehan <jlinehan(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 4:12 PM
If your team uses mw.user.sessionId() for instrumentation, a recent change
to MediaWiki could impact your numbers.
The new patch <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/572011/>
changes
the way that session IDs work, bringing their behavior closer to other
platforms that many of us are familiar with.
The value returned from mw.user.sessionId() will now:
- be the same in different tabs of the same browser process
- be the same in different windows of the same browser process
- be forgotten once the browser process ends
Since 2017, values returned from mw.user.sessionId() have only been
constant within the same browser tab, and only lasted until the tab was
closed. This had gone unnoticed until recently. See T223931
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223931> for more details. This patch
restores pre-2017 behavior.
If you have any questions about the change, or if you notice any
irregularities in your data or instrumentation, reach out or tag jlinehan,
mpopov, or the Better Use of Data topic on Phabricator.
-Jason
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, Feb 5th, 2020
Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 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
Join by phone in the US: +1 786-701-6904 PIN: 262 122 849#
Hope to talk to you tomorrow!
—Trey
Trey Jones
Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC-5 / EST
Hello everyone,
In 2015 Wikimedia Germany published the Service Catgraph[1], a graph
database of the categories of Wikipedias, as well as Deepcat[2] a gadget
for Wikipedia users to search for articles in a category, including
recursive subcategories, in the search page of Mediawiki.
Since 2018 this functionality is built in the search engine of Wikipedia as
well as into the Advanced Search GUI.
Wikimedia will therefore sunset Catgraph as well as Deepcat. We plan to
shut down the service end of January. Catgraph also powered other tools
such as Catcycle[3] and Article List Generator[4], these will also stop
working. If your wiki has deepcat enabled as a gadget or in your globar.js,
or you have it in your common.js you should remove it and use the newer,
built in 'deepcategory'.
Documentation for the new search-keyword can be found here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch/de?uselang=de#Deepcategory
Documentation for the new Graph-Database is available here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Query_Service/Categories
Cheers,
Michael for the project Technical Wishes at Wikimedia Germany
[1]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Catgraph
[2]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:Suche/Deepcat
[3]: http://tools.wmflabs.org/render-tests/catcycle-dev/catcycle.py
[4]: https://tools.wmflabs.org/render/stools/alg?uilang=en
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The Search Platform Team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds
office hours the first Wednesday of each month—but not in January because
the first Wednesday is New Year’s Day! 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, Jan 8th, 2020
Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 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
Hope to talk to you next week!
Trey Jones
Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC-5 / EST
Forwarding.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Sarah R <srodlund(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 8:44 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia Tech Talks] Cormac Parle, Structured Data
on Commons, 11 December 2019 at 6 PM UTC
To: <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi Everyone,
It's time for Wikimedia Tech Talks 2019 Episode 11! This talk will take
place on *11 December 2019 at 6 PM UTC.*
Title: Structured Data on Commons
Speaker: Cormac Parle, Senior Software Engineer
Summary:
The talk will cover Structured Data on Commons:
- what structured is
- the structured data we store for a media file on commons
- where we store it
- how it helps with search
- the UI and the API calls we use to manipulate it
The link to the Youtube Livestream can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9LmFAkDnx0
During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at
#wikimedia-office
You can watch past Tech Talks here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks
If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more
here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Te…
Note: Please feel free to distribute this email to any lists that you feel
are appropriate!
Many kindnesses,
Sarah R. Rodlund
Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
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