Hello,
We're happy to announce that the latest update to the search results page is now in production!
We've added snippets from the Wikimedia sister projects into a sidebar display on the search results page to further discovery into even more knowledge using your search query. You can test this new functionality out using your favorite wiki and here are a few quick sample URLs to get you started:
- German: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Wiener+Schnitzel~&title=Spec... - Italian: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Ricerca&fulltext=1 - Basque: https://eu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=barruti~&title=Berezi:Bilatu... - English: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=the+night+is+nigh&title=Spec...
We had sent an email earlier in the year, in which we described the overall search work that the Discovery team has been doing, if you'd like a refresher on our project.[1]
Cheers from the Discovery Search team!
[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2017-April/001487.html
-- deb tankersley irc: debt Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
Yay! Nice work. :-)
Dan
On 16 June 2017 at 01:06, Deborah Tankersley dtankersley@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello,
We're happy to announce that the latest update to the search results page is now in production!
We've added snippets from the Wikimedia sister projects into a sidebar display on the search results page to further discovery into even more knowledge using your search query. You can test this new functionality out using your favorite wiki and here are a few quick sample URLs to get you started:
Schnitzel~&title=Special:Search https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Wiener+Schnitzel~&title=Special:Search
fulltext=1
title=Berezi:Bilatu&go=Joan
nigh&title=Special:Search
We had sent an email earlier in the year, in which we described the overall search work that the Discovery team has been doing, if you'd like a refresher on our project.[1]
Cheers from the Discovery Search team!
[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2017-April/001487.html
-- deb tankersley irc: debt Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
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Deborah Tankersley, 16/06/2017 02:06:
We've added snippets from the Wikimedia sister projects into a sidebar display on the search results page
Very good. I think that's extremely important, because I see the cross-wiki search results as a way to surface content the user may be totally unaware of.
A rather useful example I encountered yesterday by chance: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=dewey+classification. The cross-wiki search results provide an authoritative text on the author (Wikisource), a textbook on the topic (Wikibooks), a derivative term (Wiktionary) and some quotations from the author (Wikiquote). The snippet help make sense of a suggestion like "Mental process" which is not obviously related.
Nemo