Heya, Well ok, that subject line is a bit of a lie.
Below you'll find the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week starting 2018-03-26 _and_ 2018-04-02.
As always, feedback and questions welcome.
== Discussions ==
=== Search === * Stas finished up the work to enable the query builder hook so that using label & description index for fulltext searches work [0] * Erik worked on boosting search results with exact phrase match and updated the models to one that is significantly less expensive [1] * We completed a task for an in-place reindex to all wiki's to pickup new trigram index for title and redirect.title field [2] * Trey finished his review of Slovak Morphological Libraries [3] [4] * David completed a forceSearchIndex on testwiki, mediawikiwiki, labswiki, labtestwiki, svwiki, and everything on Beta Cluster [5] * Trey added support for external stemmer to Analyzer Analysis tools [6] * David did work to make all SearchKeywords a subclass of SimpleKeywordFeature, to remove and centralize all the parsing logic out of these classes [7] * Davis also corrected a Cirrussearch Error "An error has occurred while searching" that was due to a comma used as decimal separator [8]
=== Analysis === * Chelsy finished up the a report on analyzing the results of query explorer AB test [9] [10]
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178851] [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187240 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188452 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178929 [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Slovak_Stemmer_Analys... [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189694 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190816 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186879 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189877 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189843 [10] https://analytics.wikimedia.org/datasets/discovery/reports/Evaluate_features...
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Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation