Take another look at weighting of languages for search results
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	Oct 14 2016, 5:27 PM

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Based on the update that was accomplished with T68829, we should take another look at this comment:

We've noticed that the weight on incoming_links that can, in some cases, overweight the language based rescore. So for the example query:

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=throttle+prefix%3AManual%3APywikibot&fulltext=Search&uselang=it&cirrusDumpResult&cirrusExplain=pretty

Pywikibot/Global Options
text based scoring: 0.05815
incoming links weight: 2.576
language:en weight: 2.5
final score: 0.37453112
Pywikibot/Global Options/it
text based scoring:  0.05815
incoming links weight: 0.90309
language:it weight: 5.0
final score: 0.26257026

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Mentioned In: T68829: Prefer pages in the user's language in multilingual wikis
Mentioned Here: T56832: CirrusSearch should do the right thing when searches and documents are in languages other than the wiki's default
T68829: Prefer pages in the user's language in multilingual wikis

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• debt created this task.Oct 14 2016, 5:27 PM

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• debt triaged this task as Low priority.Oct 14 2016, 5:27 PM

• debt mentioned this in T68829: Prefer pages in the user's language in multilingual wikis.

Some of this will change soon with BM25, since the weights (like on incoming links) will be invalidated. This can be reviewed after than.

Also, this only affects mediawiki.org, so this isn't super pressing in terms of priority.

• Deskana moved this task from needs triage to search-icebox on the Discovery-Search board.Oct 18 2016, 5:41 PM

This report is a duplicate of T56832 btw. I mean: we could try to split this report into subproblems, if we don't want a single very generic one.

We don't think that the machine learning that we're doing on search would affect this - mostly because there isn't enough data on mediawiki—declining this ticket.

Gehel edited projects, added Discovery-Search (Current work); removed Discovery-Search.Feb 12 2025, 8:32 AM

Gehel moved this task from Incoming to Needs Reporting on the Discovery-Search (Current work) board.

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