Our initial tests of this suggestions API are incredibly promising at
reducing the zero results rate:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109729
More rigorous testing must be done before we can consider replacing
prefixsearch with the suggestion API.
Thanks!
Dan
On 25 August 2015 at 15:38, Erik Bernhardson <ebernhardson(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
We have been working on a replacement autocompletion
API that is more
forgiving than a strict prefix search. The scoring algorithm's have a long
way to go but we have the first run through of building the completion
index for enwiki so i thought i would share:
Here are a couple examples, feel free to change the text= around to other
things.
http://cirrus-browser-bot.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=cirrus-suggest&l…
http://cirrus-browser-bot.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=cirrus-suggest&l…
http://cirrus-browser-bot.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=cirrus-suggest&l…
Don't stress out too much over the scoring yet, we know it needs some work
and have plans to integrate page view information in here to help more
popular articles rise the the top.
Erik B
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