Hey Billinghurst, We intend for the completion suggester beta feature to be available on all Wikimedia wikis. It will obviously be a really early prototype, so there will no doubt be plenty of problems and issues; that's why we want to roll the beta feature out, so that we can find these! I look forward to you (and others) on Wikisource testing it and giving us feedback on how it works.
Thanks, Dan On 25 November 2015 at 23:00, billinghurst <[email protected]> wrote: > Dan, > > As I broached in an earlier email, the Wikisources have an interest in > greater scope of the completion suggested / typeahead. > > With formal titles of works often starting with "The..." or "A ..." etc. > having the ability to reach further into a work's title OR to leverage the > use of {{defaultsort:}} would have advantages. > > We are still hampered by long titles in short suggester boxes, especially > where the key words are at the end and away from the visual part of the > suggestion. > > Regards, Billinghurst > > On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 12:47 Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As we reach the last month of the quarter, it's a good opportunity for us >> to reflect on where we want to go for the last part of our remaining time. >> >> On the one hand, we're in quite a good place. We're just wrapping up our >> work on our Q2 goal for search >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals#Search>, >> which is excellent! On the other hand, the test showed minimal impact, so >> our users still aren't seeing the impact of our work. Since we can continue >> running A/B tests for improving language support relatively cheaply in >> terms of required engineering time, let's take a look back at what we've >> done previously and see if we can choose something high impact to work on! >> >> The completion suggester is a very promising avenue for us to invest in. >> As noted in our analysis of the initial test >> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111858>, using the completion >> suggester instead of prefixsearch significantly reduced the zero results >> rate. We've not had an impact on this through other efforts, so this is >> interesting! In order to more thoroughly test the suggester, we can make >> it a Beta Feature <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119535>. This will >> allow editors to opt-in to testing it, and will gather us valuable >> qualitative feedback about what use cases the completion suggester could >> support better. The caveat, of course, is that the feedback will be from a >> specific segment of our user base (users who test beta features) which is >> more specialised than the intended audience (everyone). That said, the >> feedback will still be very helpful. There's quite a bit of work to do >> here; our initial test of the suggester was very hacky, but now that it's >> proven itself, we can be more rigorous. >> >> The other avenue is using page views to influence result ranking. This is >> in an earlier stage thant he completion suggester, in that it's a >> relatively unproven approach for us, but it's something that's logical and >> that we've been interested in for a while. But, we've repeatedly had to >> deprioritise it for other work. If something is popular, it makes sense to >> rank it up in search results. Obviously, we do not want to be *too* >> aggressive >> with this in case we create feedback loops, but I think the potential >> benefits are quite clear if done correctly. >> >> I explained a lot of this more briefly in our last standup, but hopefully >> this should give you all some guidance on where we're going. >> >> Thanks, and as always, if there are any questions then please let me know. >> >> Dan >> >> -- >> Dan Garry >> Lead Product Manager, Discovery >> Wikimedia Foundation >> _______________________________________________ >> discovery mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >> > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > > -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
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