Extension:RelatedArticles/CirrusSearchComparison
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[edit]This page shows what happens to the Cirrus Search results, used by the Related Pages feature, when we remove popularity from the factors.
With Classic Cirrus Search 2 types of score are combined:
- 'SIMILARITY': A score that computes the similarity between documents, this can be fine-tuned
- 'POPULARITY/QUALITY': A score (we call it "rescore") that use article metadata: 'boostlinks', 'boosttemplates'.
- Boostlinks is a measure of how many articles link in, which is a mark of notability
- boosttemplates are templates that tend to signal quality. Here is a link to the enwiki boost-templates (they vary from wiki to wiki):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Cirrussearch-boost-templates
These 3 scores are multiplied together to achieve the final score. To use an example of a bad match:
- Article: A_Summer_Bird-Cage
- The score for "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" with boost links is:
- similarity: 0.3457441 (terms chosen: "from", "cage", "bird")
- boostlinks: 2.807535
- boost-templates: 2
- total: 0.3457441 * 2.807535 * 2 => 1.9413773
Below, you see 3 columns, showing results for different settings:
Score type | classic | classic noboostlinks | empty |
---|---|---|---|
Similarity | YES | YES | YES |
Boostlinks (inbound links) | YES | NO | YES |
Boosttemplate (featured article, etc) | YES | NO | NO |
Community suggested list comparison, 20 Jun 2016
[edit]See phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128822#2372230
Revolution_Muslim
[edit]Chesser
[edit]List_of_serial_killers_before_1900
[edit]Murder_of_Kelly_Anne_Bates
[edit]Korur_language
[edit]Sarah_Mason_(novelist)
[edit]Murke%27s_Collected_Silences
[edit]Gabriels,_New_York
[edit]Isabel_Fonseca
[edit]Andrew_Michael_Hurley
[edit]The_Queen_of_the_Tearling
[edit]Did_You_Ever_Have_a_Family
[edit]Tell_The_Wolves_I%27m_Home
[edit]Cathy_Marie_Buchanan
[edit]John_Michael_Cummings
[edit]Blood_Ties_(Hinton_novel)
[edit]Jack_(Homes_novel)
[edit]Opernpassage
[edit]Yazoo_and_Mississippi_Valley_Railroad
[edit]Aim%C3%A9_Ngoy_Mukena
[edit]Francis_Patrick_Donovan
[edit]Thomas_Meehan_(writer)
[edit]Michael_E._Smith
[edit]James_Morrill
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JKatz's list comparison, 20 Jun 2016
[edit]See phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128822#2372230
Will_Self
[edit]Kiss
[edit]Amanda_Green
[edit]Uttar_Pradesh
[edit]United_States_Senate_elections,_1922
[edit]A_Summer_Bird-Cage
[edit]Don_Perata
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