I'm glad you were able to make use of this quick fix. It's currently on the Discovery Department's roadmap for us to overhaul and improve the search API. However, we've determined our current work gives bigger rewards for our users, so that work isn't planned to take place until mid-2016. In the mean time, the fix makes it work.
Thanks, Dan
On 1 September 2015 at 10:36, Stephen Niedzielski < sniedzielski@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hey! Most of the details are covered in T104746[0], T110231[1], and T92796[2]. As I understand it, the search API now offers order indices for redirected pages which we can take advantage of in the app. Previously, the order was not prioritized and this caused a poor search experience. The infamous example is searching for "obama" and getting "I Got a Crush... on Obama" as a top hit. You shouldn't see this behavior as of this release. Dmitry implemented the new functionality and can probably word all that better.
--stephen
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104746 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110231 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796, there's a nice overview by Bryan Davis here too, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796#1582443
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Stephen Niedzielski sniedzielski@wikimedia.org wrote:
- Improved search result ordering!
Can you share some details on what was changed ?
--tomasz