Hello again,
This week saw a few updates from around the department. The big highlight
is a first look at cross-wiki search.
== Highlights ==
* Inter-wiki search is here! An A/B test of a new search results page which
includes inter-wiki search results was deployed to Persian, Italian,
Catalan and Polish Wikipedias. Take a look and give us feedback! [0] [1]
== Discussions ==
=== Search ===
* Inter-wiki search is here! An A/B test of a new search results page which
includes inter-wiki search results was deployed to Persian, Italian,
Catalan and Polish Wikipedias. Take a look and give us feedback! [0] [1]
* TextCat (language ID) improvements for German, English, Spanish, French,
Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian Wikipedias have been deployed.
[2] In general, more languages are available to be detected, and detection
accuracy is higher. [3]
* TextCat has also been enabled on the Dutch Wikipedia. [4]
* A warning is now displayed if a user runs an advanced search query which
only returns partial results due to a query timeout. [5]
* Our initial analysis of the Stempel Polish analyzer is done. [6] Overall
it works well, but has some rare but bizarre stemming bugs. [7] There’s a
live demo with the Polish Wikipedia index in labs. [8] Feedback on the Phab
ticket (T154517) or talk page of the write up is very welcome. [9] [10]
[0]
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/?fulltext=1&search=Illa+d%27Irlanda&c…
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149806
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149324
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat…
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142140
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149142
[6]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Stempel_Analyzer_Ana…
[7]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Stempel_Analyzer_Ana…
[8]
http://pl-wp-stempel-relforge.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Specjalna:Szukaj
[9]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154517
[10]
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/St…
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The archive of all 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
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation