Hello,
It's Friday where I'm at. I hope you have a good weekend.
Here is this week's update from the Discovery department.
== Analysis ==
* add a 'most commonly clicked section per visit' metric on Portal
dashboard [1] [2]
== Search ==
* a small subsection of the team met to go over the upcoming Discernatron
demo / luncheon and how we can improve the user interface for it [3]
* turned on BM25 A/B test after re-indexing the codfw seach cluster first
[4] [5]
* worked on updating the prose and user flow of the Discernatron
introduction and instructions page [6] [3]
* added patch to ensure timeouts always work on CirrusSearch [7]
* evaluated BM25 with new fulltext query and weighted sum with PaulScore
and Discernatron [8]
* added patch to properly handle acronyms in fulltext query builder [9]
* tested and analyzed the effect of adding ascii-folding to fr.wiki [10]
* Use top_terms_blended_freq for wildcard queries [11]
* updated fulltext query builder to enhance title [12]
* turned off 'did you mean' on Wikidata [13]
== Maps ==
* We tried to enable <maplink> on every Wikipedia, but ran into some
blockers. Will try again next week. Track it at phab:T144062 [14]
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141061
[2]
http://discovery.wmflabs.org/portal/#most_common
[3]
https://discernatron.wmflabs.org/
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143586
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143590
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133359
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143006
[8]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139579
[9]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143541
[10]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142620
[11]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143537
[12]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143537
[13]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143260
[14]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144062
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The full update, and archive of 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
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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation