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(a)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