Also of note: the completion suggester was used as part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-03-30/Techno... thanks to its evangelization at metrics meeting this week. Yay! --scott
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Chris Koerner ckoerner@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello, Here is the Discovery department's weekly status update.
- Q4: April - June 2016
< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discov...
draft goals are available for review.
- Discovery hosted an IRC office hour
< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discov...
to give community members a chance to talk to Discovery staff about what we're working on.
- Team members presented at the WMF monthly Metrics meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_HKdo4i-QM (the whole thing is worth watching, but Discovery starts at 34:50 https://youtu.be/Q_HKdo4i-QM?t=34m50s).
- Zero result rates with new completion suggester have decreased
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2016-March/000990.html.
- Wikipedia.org Portal stats are moving in the right direction
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2016-March/001004.html! ** Related: Wikipedia Portal clickthrough rates & section usage vary by English vs non-English speakers https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2016-March/001005.html.
- A popularity score based on page views has been loaded into the
production elasticsearch cluster for use in improving search relevance. ** First tests will be run with the completion suggester.
- Portal A/B testing page
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal_A/B_testing created and linked to new Portal page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal.
- A Portal A/B test started https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121567 on
March 22, 2016 and will run until approximately April 5, 2016.
Feedback and suggestions on this weekly update are welcome.
The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on Mediawiki.org
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates
-- Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l