Cross post to mobile-l and wikitech-ambassadors in case you don't follow
wikitech-l directly. See you at CREDIT!
-Adam
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From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 10:55 AM
Subject: CREDIT Showcase in two days - 2-Nov-2016 - call for demos
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi!
The next CREDIT showcase is in two days - Wednesday, 2-November-2016 at
1800 UTC (1100 San Francisco).
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase
Got a demo? Add it here:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
Last month (WebM
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CREDIT_-_October_2016.webm>,
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCn-oeHQnpU&feature=youtu.be&t=6>)
we saw great demos of a Raspberry Pi based network conditioner, Wikidata
credits for maps, extended OCR support for Indic Wikisource projects, an
intro to EventBus and ChangePropagation, data visualizations on maps, and
an alternative table of contents approach.
We're excited to see what's next! Whether you've just launched a new
feature or are just getting started with an idea, we welcome demos from
Wikimedia community members and staff alike.
See you soon. And if you would like to invite anyone to CREDIT, feel free
to use this template.
*Hi <FNAME>*
*I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, a
monthly demo series that we’re running to showcase open source tech
projects from Wikimedia Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery,
Infrastructure and Technology.*
*CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. The
next CREDIT will be held on November 2nd at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 18:00 UTC. *
*Here’s a link to the YouTube live stream
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmfqtP3pr2Y>, which will be available
shortly before the event starts. There’s more info on MediaWiki.org
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase>, and on Etherpad
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT>, which is where we take notes and
ask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode chatroom
#wikimedia-office (web-based access here
<https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23wikimedia-office>). *
*Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks.
Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folks
working across the open source tech community: language detection,
numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of other
things.*
*Thanks, and I hope to see you at CREDIT.*
-
*YOURNAME*
After extensive testing over the last several months using a new search
query scoring method called BM25 (Best Matching) [1], we recently completed
a limited
production
release to the following top languages: English, German, Spanish, Russian,
Portuguese, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch and Arabic. This new release is
replacing the older search method called tf-idf (term frequency-inverse
document frequency) [2].
We have
additional
testing to do [3,4] to figure out if BM25 will work in languages that
don’t use spaces in-between their words
,
i.e.: Japanese, Chinese, etc.
The Discovery team announces much of
our
completed work in weekly status updates [5
, 6
], but some of the work isn’t actually obvious to anyone who uses our
search engine
- t
hat is because it isn’t actually ‘live’ until a complete re-index of the
servers occur. We’ve created a recurring ticket in Phabricator [
7
] to keep track of the work that goes live
in production
after a re-index, such as the one we’ve also just completed. A few
highlights
of the
recent
re-index
are implementing ascii-folding for the French language and
fixing
several
bugs
for French ÿ, and Russian ’Е’ and 'Ё' when
those characters are
entered in a search query.
Cheers from the Discovery Search Team!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi_BM25
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147495
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147501
[5]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery#Updates
[
6
] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates
[
7
] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147505
--
deb tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
irc: debt
Wikimedia Foundation
Link provided below for a video recording.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: CREDIT in 45 minutes (was: CREDIT Showcase, Wednesday,
5-October-2016 - call for demos)
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
In case you missed it, here's the video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCn-oeHQnpU&feature=youtu.be&t=6
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Reminder, this is happening in about 45 minutes.
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Greetings -
>>
>> The next CREDIT showcase is Wednesday, 5-October-2016 at 1800 UTC (1100
>> San Francisco).
>>
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase
>>
>> We look forward to seeing your demos! Please add them to the Etherpad and
>> mark your calendars:
>>
>> https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
>>
>> We welcome works in progress and would be thrilled to see works from
>> Wikimedia community members, as well as staff.
>>
>> If you missed last month's CREDIT, here it is!
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfBQ6H14_SM&t=54
>>
>> Finally, If you would like to invite anyone to CREDIT, feel free to use
>> this template.
>>
>> *Hi <FNAME>*
>>
>> *I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, a
>> monthly demo series that we’re running to showcase open source tech
>> projects from Wikimedia Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery,
>> Infrastructure and Technology.*
>>
>> *CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion.
>> The next CREDIT will be held on October 5th at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 18:00
>> UTC. *
>>
>> *Here’s a link to the YouTube live stream
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCn-oeHQnpU>, which will be available
>> shortly before the event starts. There’s more info on MediaWiki.org
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase>, and on Etherpad
>> <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT>, which is where we take notes and
>> ask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode chatroom
>> #wikimedia-office (web-based access here
>> <https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23wikimedia-office>). *
>>
>> *Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks.
>> Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folks
>> working across the open source tech community: language detection,
>> numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of other
>> things.*
>>
>> *Thanks, and I hope to see you at CREDIT.*
>>
>>
>> -
>>
>> *YOURNAME*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -Adam
>>
>
>
Cross posting. CREDIT in 43 minutes :)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 12:15 PM
Subject: CREDIT in 45 minutes (was: CREDIT Showcase, Wednesday,
5-October-2016 - call for demos)
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Reminder, this is happening in about 45 minutes.
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Greetings -
>
> The next CREDIT showcase is Wednesday, 5-October-2016 at 1800 UTC (1100
> San Francisco).
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase
>
> We look forward to seeing your demos! Please add them to the Etherpad and
> mark your calendars:
>
> https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
>
> We welcome works in progress and would be thrilled to see works from
> Wikimedia community members, as well as staff.
>
> If you missed last month's CREDIT, here it is!
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfBQ6H14_SM&t=54
>
> Finally, If you would like to invite anyone to CREDIT, feel free to use
> this template.
>
> *Hi <FNAME>*
>
> *I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, a
> monthly demo series that we’re running to showcase open source tech
> projects from Wikimedia Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery,
> Infrastructure and Technology.*
>
> *CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion.
> The next CREDIT will be held on October 5th at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 18:00
> UTC. *
>
> *Here’s a link to the YouTube live stream
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCn-oeHQnpU>, which will be available
> shortly before the event starts. There’s more info on MediaWiki.org
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase>, and on Etherpad
> <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT>, which is where we take notes and
> ask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode chatroom
> #wikimedia-office (web-based access here
> <https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23wikimedia-office>). *
>
> *Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks.
> Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folks
> working across the open source tech community: language detection,
> numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of other
> things.*
>
> *Thanks, and I hope to see you at CREDIT.*
>
>
> -
>
> *YOURNAME*
>
>
>
>
> -Adam
>