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:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/So_Many_Search_Option...
Comments and questions here or on the talk page are welcome!
—Trey
Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
Hi!
I've put together a straw man proposal for how to deal with all of this to have a more co-ordinated conversation:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/So_Many_Search_Option...
Thank you! I've put some thoughts on the talk page. I did it topic-per-thought - please tell me if this format is convenient or "one big comment" is better.
Separate items for different topics is great. That way nothing gets lost. I'll make sure to reply to everything tomorrow if not sooner.
Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Stas Malyshev smalyshev@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi!
I've put together a straw man proposal for how to deal with all of this to have a more co-ordinated conversation:
So_Many_Search_Options
Thank you! I've put some thoughts on the talk page. I did it topic-per-thought - please tell me if this format is convenient or "one big comment" is better.
-- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@wikimedia.org
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Fantastic! Thanks so much for putting this together.
We're now getting to the stage where we've made enough search improvements, and got enough more improvements planned, that they are likely to interact quite significantly. This is where stepping back and thinking about how we can present that interaction to the user in a consistent and logical way can significantly improve the user experience. I'm really looking forward to this.
I'm a bit too tired to think about this too much now *shakes fist angrily at jet lag* but I'll do so in the next few days and leave some comments.
Thanks, Dan
On 5 December 2016 at 21:25, 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: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/ So_Many_Search_Options
Comments and questions here or on the talk page are welcome!
—Trey
Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
discovery mailing list discovery@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
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/ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/So_Many_Search_Options wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/So_Many_Search_Options 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: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/ So_Many_Search_Options
Comments and questions here or on the talk page are welcome!
—Trey
Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation