Hi Deb,
While I can't dive deeply into the implementation details at the moment, I
just wanted to say thanks for working on cross-project search. I'd find it
useful to be able to be on Wikipedia and be able to see related search
results from Wiktionary, Commons, Wikisource, etc. So this an expression of
"support in principle". (:
Pine
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Deborah Tankersley <
dtankersley(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello,
tl;dr - we’re running a second test for displaying sister projects in the
search results (with new link highlights) on 8 wikis for a week; starting
today, with apologies for sending to multiple email lists.
As a follow up to a recent A/B test
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149806> that the Discovery Search
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Search> team
conducted, we’ll be running a second test
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160004> for displaying sister project
search results in a sidebar on several wiki’s search engine results page
(SERP) - starting today. You can read the draft report
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Test_Of_Cross-wiki_Search_-_Helping_Users_Discover_Content_On_Wikipedia%E2%80%99s_Sister_Projects.pdf>
or browse the next two paragraphs for the biggest concerns.
We realized that when we display the results from the sister projects, it
might not have been intuitive to our visitors that there were links that
could be clicked to go to individual articles and to additional search
results, so, we’ve added blue links
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158935> to the results.
We also discovered that the smaller wikis in which we had originally
chosen to test on, might not have had enough relevant results in their
sister projects to be displayed. To remedy that, we reached out
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158935> to the community and added 4
larger wikis along with the original 4 wikis, to test on. The list is as
follows: Persian, Italian, Catalan, Polish, Russian, French, German, and
Arabic.
Here are a few links that will not affect our testing, but will
demonstrate the new test display:
- cawiki:
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?
search=manifestaci%C3%B3&fulltext=1&cirrusUserTesting=
recall_sidebar_results&searchToken=66xv5qgi97musdtybg
wik11sk#manifestaci%C3%B3
<https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=manifestaci%C3%B3&fulltext=1&cirrusUserTesting=recall_sidebar_results&searchToken=66xv5qgi97musdtybgwik11sk#manifestaci%C3%B3>
- dewiki:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?
search=regenbogen&fulltext=1&cirrusUserTesting=recall_sideba
r_results&searchToken=44wgqit3kykji2o1cxtaxlzcs#regenbogen
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=regenbogen&fulltext=1&cirrusUserTesting=recall_sidebar_results&searchToken=44wgqit3kykji2o1cxtaxlzcs#regenbogen>
- arwiki:
https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?
search=%D9%82%D9%88%D8%B3+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B7%D8%B1&
fulltext=1&cirrusUserTesting=recall_sidebar_results&
searchToken=bxfe1fnvj7sav1nue56hpjt69#%D9%82%D9%88%D8%B3%2B%
D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B7%D8%B1
<https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%D9%82%D9%88%D8%B3+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B7%D8%B1&fulltext=1&cirrusUserTesting=recall_sidebar_results&searchToken=bxfe1fnvj7sav1nue56hpjt69#%D9%82%D9%88%D8%B3%2B%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B7%D8%B1>
You can edit the url to change the search term and also change to a
different Wikipedia. For example, try this url for “apple pie” on enwiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?
search=apple+pie&fulltext=1&cirrusUserTesting=recall_sidebar
_results&searchToken=8mavijx36f9cl26l6k2v2o11l#apple%2Bpie
Let us know what you think!
Cheers from the Discovery Search Team
--
deb tankersley
irc: debt
Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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