Discovery/Status updates/2016-10-10
This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-10-10
Discussions
Search
[edit]- Updated the search results page because the content overflows page boundaries
- Add accent squashing to Russian/Cyrillic analyser (with tests)
- Fixed Cyrillic 'Е' and 'Ё' equivalence not found by search
- Decided on the outcome of the recent BM25 A/B test, what our next steps on using BM25 will be
- Fixed issue where the search page content overflows the page boundaries on various browsers
- Updated where users prefer pages in their language in multilingual wikis
Search tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016:
- Put SITENAME in search box placeholder "searchsuggest-search" like in MobileFrontend's "mobile-frontend-placeholder
- Integrate "did you mean" data collection into search satisfaction schema
Analysis
[edit]- Completed analysis of the results of BM25 AB test (final report)
- Search results page: how many visitors are on mobile vs desktop - Mikhail ran a hive query for the last couple of weeks and discovered:
| platform | median SERP's a day | median users a day |
|---|---|---|
| desktop | 2.38M | 1.08M |
| mobile web | 1.15M | 666.03K |
- Analyze the variance of user-agent's, country, and other useful metrics of google referred traffic with and without a search query available in referrer
- this was to analyze what the difference is between the requests that have a search term in the query and those that do not, to determine if those queries could be used as a representative sample. Turns out, they're not relevant at all.
- Investigate recent spike in pageviews on wikipedia.org portal page
- there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of page views since middle of Sep 2016 to the portal--it turns out that this increase is due to various issues: school starting up again, increasing bot traffic, and possibly several agencies/companies that might have loaded 'golden' copies of software onto their employees phones that have wikipedia.org as the default home page of their Android phone browsers.
Portal
[edit]- Updated articles by languages
- Centered 'the free encyclopedia' phrase on mobile devices
- Fixed the language link that broke unevenly
- Updated the portal text to use the new, approved shade of blue (partially completed)
- Fixed where `.lang-list-button` doesn't feature focus state
Portal updates that need code review:
Interactive
[edit]- Maps with geoshapes now have a link to Wikidata item or query in the bottom attribution text (i.e.: externalData should show up as data source in credits)
- Migrated all map usage from "href" to "service" external data (about 50 pages)
- Simplified (and normalized) ExternalData parsing in Kartographer
- Geoshapes service URL is hardcoded
- Refactor data loader into a separate lib, as both Kartotherian (snapshot) and Kartographer need identical functionality, for a given map, we need to provide a fully expanded (no externalData) GeoJSON
- Fixed where failed ExternalData requests result in all maps on page being completely broken
- Set "maxzoom" to 14 on osm.tm2source, based on community feedback
- Defined KPIs and other interesting maps statistics about how we would like to gather to track and improve maps
- Ensure Maps servers can be installed easily (automation + documentation)
- maps-test* hosts running low on space
- Updated to postgresql 9.4.9 on all maps servers
- Created a pipeline for supplying data to static map service (Here is a sample URL)
- Error "Maximum zoom is 18" (updated logging to be an 'info' message rather than an error)
- Fixed where the Sparql-based externalData maps are broken
Interactive tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016:
- <mapframe> maximize button sometimes doesn't work
- buildHtml() should parse messages in parser output language
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Search team created a new ticket to note what will be 'live' in production during the next full re-indexing: [Recurring task] CirrusSearch: what is updated during re-indexing
- Request for translation sent for Update CirrusSearch documentation
Development
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