Discovery/Status updates/2016-11-14

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2016-11-14

Highlights

• BM25 is now enabled on the ten wikis with largest traffic. This improves numerous relevance issues in search queries.
• The Interactive Team's roadmap can be viewed here; it was finalized in Nov 2016 for FY 2016/2017.
• You can now search for file properties such as file size and and file type on Commons. See the documentation for more information.

Discussions

• The Interactive and Analysis team had a good discussion on KPIs and moving forward with logging what is needed (read more here)
• Lots of great analysis and discussions about using BM25 on languages with spaces, read more here.

Search

• BM25 is now enabled on the ten wikis with largest traffic. This improves numerous relevance issues in search queries. (T147508)
• You can now search for file properties such as file size and and file type on Commons. See the documentation for more information. (T144447)
• Fixed issue where search would behave unexpectedly if the query contained the name of a namespace and a colon. (T148344, T150232)

Analysis

• New Analysis: From Zero To Hero 2: Electric Boogaloo - or - how does stripping out question marks improve search

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