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This is the weekly update from the Discovery department for the week starting 2017-03-20 and the week of 2017-03-27.
== Highlights ==
* Finished up the analysis of the first A/B test for the sister project search results [10] [11]
== Discussions ==
=== Search === * Updates from work done in previous weeks (apologies for the delay!): ** Fixed an issue where subpages were mistakenly preferred over parent pages if you didn't type the whole title [0] ** Fixed multiple issues with the how Elasticsearch integrates with the Translate extension [1] [2] [3] ** Test wiki with new Chinese Traditional-to-Simplified conversion, better word segmentation, and using the new BM25 is available in labs. [4] (It has the index and snippets from Chinese Wikipedia, but not the actual articles.) Additional analysis from native-speaker review is also on MediaWiki. More feedback always welcome. [5] * Fixed regressions which seem to be related to Elasticsearch 5 upgrade: ** Fixed an issue causing language-converted suggestions to not show in the search box [6] * Fixed an issue where using certain special characters in advanced search syntax would unexpectedly give zero results [7] * Finished the second A/B test for the sister project search results. * The analysis of new Ukrainian language analyzer is on MediaWiki, and there's lots of good discussion on Phabricator. More feedback welcome! [8] [9]
=== Analysis === * Finished up the analysis of the first A/B test for the sister project search results (task T156300) read it here [10] [11]
=== Wikidata Query Service === * Enabled SPARQL Federation [12] * Enabled parametrized query templates in the GUI [13]
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156840 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132076 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132315 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158070 [4] http://zh-wp-smartcn-relforge.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Special:%E6%90%9... [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Chinese_Analyzer_Anal... [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160896 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147636 [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Ukrainian_Morfologik_... [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160106 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156300 [11] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Test_Of_Cross-wiki_Search_-_Helpin... ’s_Sister_Projects.pdf [12] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Federation_in_the_Wikida... [13] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Query_Service:_you_can_n...
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The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates
Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as "Easy" or "Volunteer needed" in Phabricator.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R
Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation