Hello,
Here are the updates from the Discovery team for last week. As always,
feedback and questions are welcome.
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==Discussions==
=== Search ===
* Gehel did quite a bit of work to implement the new version of
Logstash on our servers, thanks for the help, RobH! [0]
* David, Gehel and Moritz updated the elasticsearch deployment plugins
to use debian packages instead of salt [1]
* Stas and David fixed an issue where Wikidata Elastic search drops
results with matches with different language labels (e.g., you search
in English but Spanish label matches) [2]
* The explore similar test for language links A/B test was turned on
Sep 14 and will run for a week. [3] [4]
=== Analysis ===
* Mikhail finished up a new dashboard metric for dwell time on SERP [5] [6]
* Chelsy finished up the final analyzation of the results of the
swap2and3 search test and it's up on Commons. [7] [8]
[0]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175045
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158560
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173231
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175647
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175648
[5]
https://discovery.wmflabs.org/metrics/#spr_surv
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170468
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136017
[8]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swap2and3_Search_Test_Analysis.pdf
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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
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation