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Work with communities to understand how to handle question marks at the end of search queries
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This is a tracking task for my work In support of T133711: Question mark in query causes it to turn up unrelated search results

We (the search team) created a page on meta wiki describing in detail the situation regarding search queries that end in question marks.

We sent an invite out to a few of the top wikipedias (Those that our incredible volunteer translations were able to help with) on their Village Pumps.

A post to the public discovery and wikitech-l mailing list was sent on 7 July 2016:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2016-July/001183.html
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-July/086003.html

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CKoerner_WMF created this task.Jul 7 2016, 6:07 PM
Restricted Application added subscribers: Zppix, Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptJul 7 2016, 6:07 PM
CKoerner_WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Jul 7 2016, 6:07 PM
CKoerner_WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)
CKoerner_WMF added a subtask: T133711: Question mark in query causes it to turn up unrelated search results.Jul 7 2016, 6:09 PM
CKoerner_WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 7 2016, 7:43 PM
CKoerner_WMF removed a subtask: T133711: Question mark in query causes it to turn up unrelated search results.Jul 7 2016, 9:15 PM
Qgil moved this task from Backlog to Ready to Go on the Community-Relations-Support (Jul-Sep-2016) board.Jul 7 2016, 9:15 PM
CKoerner_WMF added a parent task: T133711: Question mark in query causes it to turn up unrelated search results.Jul 7 2016, 9:15 PM
CKoerner_WMF added a comment.EditedJul 27 2016, 8:55 PM

The discussion on this was small (but so is the potential impact of this change). Deb has updated the parent task with the team's next steps.

T133711#2484554

I'll help Deb will send out another update to the communities once engineering is done making the change in production.

Qgil moved this task from Ready to Go to July on the Community-Relations-Support (Jul-Sep-2016) board.Jul 29 2016, 7:37 AM
debt subscribed.Aug 3 2016, 8:00 PM

This update is on the train now and will be released to the bigger wiki's on Thursday, Aug 4th.

CKoerner_WMF closed this task as Resolved.Aug 3 2016, 10:20 PM
Trizek-WMF mentioned this in T133711: Question mark in query causes it to turn up unrelated search results.Aug 4 2016, 8:39 AM
Qgil moved this task from July to August on the Community-Relations-Support (Jul-Sep-2016) board.Aug 4 2016, 11:27 AM
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CKoerner_WMF added a comment.Aug 8 2016, 4:47 PM

For historical purposes the update was made and we let folks know via mailing list messages like this one: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2016-August/001231.html

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