Hi everyone,

David, Stas, and I had a little time for a face-to-face chat about this last week, and we sketched out a basic framework for treating all of these options in a fairly modular and more time-efficient way. There are some things to work out (e.g., "did you mean" is weird enough to require more thought, and we didn't quite figure out how to choose what results to show), but it's shaping up.

It's still here:
    https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/So_Many_Search_Options

I'm going to make another pass at the open questions on the talk page and incorporate anything else from there that needs it.

More comments and questions here or on the talk page are welcome!

—Trey

Trey Jones
Software Engineer, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Trey Jones <tjones@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi everyone,

As we keep coming up with more ways to try to rescue unsuccessful queries—"Did you mean" suggestions, language detection, quote stripping, wrong keyboard detection, etc—we have to have a plan for how they interact with each other.

I've put together a straw man proposal for how to deal with all of this to have a more co-ordinated conversation:

Comments and questions here or on the talk page are welcome!

—Trey

Trey Jones
Software Engineer, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation