Description

If a user gets zero results, but gets a "Did you mean" suggestion, they have to click on the "Did you mean" result to get anything. We should streamline that so that they don't need to click; we can just run the query for them with the "Did you mean" suggestion, and let them know that we did that.

Future opportunities for this include figuring out, using some heuristic, whether or not we should run "Did you mean" results for users *even if they have some results*, but that can come later.

Acceptance criteria:

If the user gets zero results, but they got a "Did you mean" result, run the "Did you mean" query instead
Is you run the "Did you mean" query, inform the user that you did this, and let them run the old one
If there is any advanced syntax in the query, then do NOT perform this automatic querying; this is so that advanced users who run advanced queries trying to get zero results intentionally can continue to do so

Stakeholder: Users who are searching who get zero results
Benefit: They'll get results without having to make an extra click
Estimate: To be added

Details

Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
Run suggested search query in wmf wikis	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+4 -0
Restore default value 0 for Autoforward search suggestions	mediawiki/core	master	+4 -1
Auto-forward to search suggestion when zero results	mediawiki/core	master	+224 -31
Auto-forward to search suggestion when zero results	mediawiki/core	wmf/1.26wmf15	+224 -31
Log an executor id in ElasticsearchIntermediary	mediawiki/extensions/CirrusSearch	wmf/1.26wmf15	+20 -1
Log an executor id in ElasticsearchIntermediary	mediawiki/extensions/CirrusSearch	wmf/1.26wmf14	+20 -1
Log an executor id in ElasticsearchIntermediary	mediawiki/extensions/CirrusSearch	master	+20 -1

Customize query in gerrit

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		EBernhardson	T105202 If the user gets zero results, but gets a "Did you mean" result, just run the query for the "Did you mean" result and inform the user that this happened
		Resolved		EBernhardson	T105739 Update dashboards to handle new adjustments to 'did you mean' feature

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• Deskana created this task.Jul 8 2015, 5:52 PM

• Deskana raised the priority of this task from to Medium.

• Deskana updated the task description. (Show Details)

• Deskana added projects: Discovery-ARCHIVED, Discovery-Search (Current work).

• Deskana subscribed.

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• Deskana renamed this task from If the user gets zero results, but gets a "Did you mean" result, just run the query for the "Did you mean" result and inform the user to If the user gets zero results, but gets a "Did you mean" result, just run the query for the "Did you mean" result and inform the user that this happened.Jul 8 2015, 6:10 PM

• Deskana set Security to None.

Adding the User-notice tag. No estimated date for when this will go out into production, but want to inform people of this anyway.

• gpaumier moved this task from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.Jul 8 2015, 10:16 PM

• Deskana updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 8 2015, 11:07 PM

zhuyifei1999 subscribed.Jul 9 2015, 10:19 AM

EBernhardson claimed this task.Jul 9 2015, 5:33 PM

EBernhardson moved this task from Incoming to not in use - please delete on the Discovery-Search (Current work) board.

Change 223885 had a related patch set uploaded (by EBernhardson):
Auto-forward to search suggestion when zero results

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/223885

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 9 2015, 6:47 PM

EBernhardson moved this task from not in use - please delete to Needs review on the Discovery-Search (Current work) board.Jul 9 2015, 6:48 PM

Change 224502 had a related patch set uploaded (by EBernhardson):
Log an executor id in ElasticsearchIntermediary

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/224502

EBernhardson added a subtask: T105739: Update dashboards to handle new adjustments to 'did you mean' feature.Jul 13 2015, 11:27 PM

Change 224502 merged by jenkins-bot:
Log an executor id in ElasticsearchIntermediary

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/224502

EBernhardson mentioned this in rMEXT650c11c92bdb: Updated mediawiki/extensions Project: mediawiki/extensions/CirrusSearch….Jul 23 2015, 6:31 PM

EBernhardson mentioned this in rECIRe53c8ea477e2: Log an executor id in ElasticsearchIntermediary.

Change 226590 had a related patch set uploaded (by EBernhardson):
Log an executor id in ElasticsearchIntermediary

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/226590

Change 226591 had a related patch set uploaded (by EBernhardson):
Log an executor id in ElasticsearchIntermediary

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/226591

• Forrestbot added a project: WMF-deploy-2015-07-28_(1.26wmf16).Jul 23 2015, 7:00 PM

Change 226590 merged by jenkins-bot:
Log an executor id in ElasticsearchIntermediary

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/226590

Change 226591 merged by jenkins-bot:
Log an executor id in ElasticsearchIntermediary

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/226591

EBernhardson mentioned this in rMW0ae98964f170: Updated mediawiki/core Project: mediawiki/extensions/CirrusSearch….Jul 23 2015, 11:23 PM

EBernhardson mentioned this in rMWf0cb2caab06f: Updated mediawiki/core Project: mediawiki/extensions/CirrusSearch….

EBernhardson mentioned this in rECIRbabfe3b987d3: Log an executor id in ElasticsearchIntermediary.

EBernhardson mentioned this in rECIRa713f2f2658f: Log an executor id in ElasticsearchIntermediary.

• Forrestbot added projects: WMF-deploy-2015-07-21_(1.26wmf15), WMF-deploy-2015-07-14_(1.26wmf14).Jul 24 2015, 12:00 AM

I have some doubts about whether this is a good idea.

matmarex added a project: MediaWiki-Search.Jul 27 2015, 3:32 PM

Change 223885 merged by jenkins-bot:
Auto-forward to search suggestion when zero results

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/223885

EBernhardson mentioned this in rMWbbfc872871ad: Auto-forward to search suggestion when zero results.Jul 27 2015, 9:05 PM

Change 227347 had a related patch set uploaded (by EBernhardson):
Auto-forward to search suggestion when zero results

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/227347

In T105202#1485078, @matmarex wrote:

I have some doubts about whether this is a good idea.

To me that looks more like a failure to provide a meaningful suggestion than a problem with this idea specifically. Let's get a Phabricator task filed for this.

• Deskana mentioned this in T107088: Investigate why some suboptimal suggestions are provided.Jul 27 2015, 9:25 PM

• Forrestbot added a project: MW-1.26-release.Jul 27 2015, 10:00 PM

In T105202#1486316, @Deskana wrote:

Let's get a Phabricator task filed for this.

Done: T107088

Change 227347 merged by jenkins-bot:
Auto-forward to search suggestion when zero results

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/227347

EBernhardson mentioned this in rMWe6f19a7dbc88: Auto-forward to search suggestion when zero results.Jul 27 2015, 11:34 PM

Bad idea. Even Google gets it wrong every time.

Ricordisamoa awarded a token.Jul 28 2015, 12:04 PM

EBernhardson moved this task from Needs review to Needs Reporting on the Discovery-Search (Current work) board.Jul 30 2015, 4:49 AM

Ironholds closed subtask T105739: Update dashboards to handle new adjustments to 'did you mean' feature as Resolved.Jul 31 2015, 5:43 PM

Resolving this task, as this was deployed a while ago.

In T105202#1487953, @Ricordisamoa wrote:

Bad idea. Even Google gets it wrong every time.

This comment is not helpful. What would be very helpful is if you could provide examples of issues that you've had using this feature, so we can take a look at those and reevaluate.

• gpaumier moved this task from Not ready to announce to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.Aug 7 2015, 9:43 PM

Florian subscribed.Aug 8 2015, 10:09 AM

In T105202#1519460, @Deskana wrote:

What would be very helpful is if you could provide examples of issues that you've had using this feature, so we can take a look at those and reevaluate.

The 'feature' is the issue.
I don't want to ever be overridden by a program, even if it thinks I'm wrong.

• Deskana moved this task from Needs Reporting to Resolved on the Discovery-Search (Current work) board.Sep 9 2015, 2:25 AM

Change 237029 had a related patch set uploaded (by Florianschmidtwelzow):
Run suggested search query in wmf wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/237029

Change 237030 had a related patch set uploaded (by Florianschmidtwelzow):
Restore default value 0 for Autoforward search suggestions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/237030

Change 237030 abandoned by Florianschmidtwelzow:
Restore default value 0 for Autoforward search suggestions

Reason:
It seems, that this change will not be merged.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/237030

Change 237029 abandoned by Florianschmidtwelzow:
Run suggested search query in wmf wikis

Reason:
Dependency abandoned

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/237029

Another ridiculous example:

from https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Dart&title=Special%3ASearch&go=

• Ladsgroup edited projects, added User-notice-archive; removed User-notice.Aug 13 2022, 1:54 PM

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