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This is the weekly update from the Discovery department for the week
starting 2017-03-20 and the week of 2017-03-27.
== Highlights ==
* Finished up the analysis of the first A/B test for the sister project
search results [10] [11]
== Discussions ==
=== Search ===
* Updates from work done in previous weeks (apologies for the delay!):
** Fixed an issue where subpages were mistakenly preferred over parent
pages if you didn't type the whole title [0]
** Fixed multiple issues with the how Elasticsearch integrates with the
Translate extension [1] [2] [3]
** Test wiki with new Chinese Traditional-to-Simplified conversion, better
word segmentation, and using the new BM25 is available in labs. [4] (It has
the index and snippets from Chinese Wikipedia, but not the actual
articles.) Additional analysis from native-speaker review is also on
MediaWiki. More feedback always welcome. [5]
* Fixed regressions which seem to be related to Elasticsearch 5 upgrade:
** Fixed an issue causing language-converted suggestions to not show in the
search box [6]
* Fixed an issue where using certain special characters in advanced search
syntax would unexpectedly give zero results [7]
* Finished the second A/B test for the sister project search results.
* The analysis of new Ukrainian language analyzer is on MediaWiki, and
there's lots of good discussion on Phabricator. More feedback welcome! [8]
[9]
=== Analysis ===
* Finished up the analysis of the first A/B test for the sister project
search results (task T156300) read it here [10] [11]
=== Wikidata Query Service ===
* Enabled SPARQL Federation [12]
* Enabled parametrized query templates in the GUI [13]
[0]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156840
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132076
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132315
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158070
[4]
http://zh-wp-smartcn-relforge.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Special:搜索
[5]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Chinese_Analyzer_Ana…
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160896
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147636
[8]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Ukrainian_Morfologik…
[9]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160106
[10]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156300
[11]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Test_Of_Cross-wiki_Search_-_Helpi…
’s_Sister_Projects.pdf
[12]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Federation_in_the_Wikid…
[13]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Query_Service:_you_can_…
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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