Hello,
This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week
starting 2018-12-03.
As always, feedback and questions welcome.
== Discussions ==
=== Search ===
* Mathew and Gehel worked on setting up ElasticSearch on the new codfw
servers [0]
* Erik finished up the work to analyze wbsearchentities AB test from
Nov/Dec and found that clicks@1 improved from 80% to 84% with no
change to abandonment rate or number of characters type. [1] [2]
* Lots of conversation from the team is on this ticket about building
a pipeline to transform ElasticSearch queries with 'explain' enabled
to see if we can get a tf graph out of it [3]
* Mathew and Gehel collaborated on writing cookbooks to support
Spicerack's ElasticSearch multi cluster/instance [4]
* David worked on introducing rewrite/second-try strategies for search
by externalizing the language detector creation, this code will go out
on the train the week of December 10th [5]
* Erik and the team worked on an A/B testing plan for
wbsearchentities, context=item, in order to help with investigating
user click data to help better tune the Wikidata search parameters [6]
[0]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210265
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F27421972
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211033
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208917
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207919
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204255
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209402
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[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R
[2]
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Chris Koerner
Community Relations Specialist
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