Change ranking of pages in the research and grants namespaces on meta wiki
Closed, ResolvedPublic1 Estimated Story Points
Actions

Assigned To

Authored By

	CBogen
	Aug 17 2020, 4:08 PM

Description

As a user of meta wiki, I want to be able to find items in the research and grants namespaces when I search for them, so that I can use them for my work.

Currently the Grants namespace (200) and the Research namespace (202) on meta wiki are weighted at 0.2, which is 1/5th of the weight of regular content. This is because they are not defined as $wgContentNamespaces in mediawiki.

We should either define them as content namespaces, or bump their weight. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the two options?

Sample search: This user was trying to find information about the research project happening around the knowledge gap, but the results do not appear towards the top:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=knowledge+gap&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1&ns12=1&ns200=1&ns202=1

Details

	Project	Branch	Lines +/-	Subject
	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+5 -0	Increase weight of grants and research in metawiki search

Customize query in gerrit

Event Timeline

CBogen created this task.Aug 17 2020, 4:08 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptAug 17 2020, 4:08 PM

CBogen added a subscriber: Abit.Aug 17 2020, 4:08 PM

To keep this simple, we're just going to bump weight of the 200 and 202 namespaces to 0.6.

CBogen moved this task from needs triage to Current work on the Discovery-Search board.Aug 20 2020, 7:14 PM

CBogen edited projects, added Discovery-Search (Current work); removed Discovery-Search.

Change 621767 had a related patch set uploaded (by Ebernhardson; owner: Ebernhardson):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Increase weight of grants and research in metawiki search

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/621767

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 21 2020, 4:51 PM

EBernhardson claimed this task.Aug 21 2020, 4:51 PM

EBernhardson set the point value for this task to 1.

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

Change 621767 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Increase weight of grants and research in metawiki search

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/621767

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 24 2020, 6:10 PM

EBernhardson moved this task from Needs review to Needs Reporting on the Discovery-Search (Current work) board.Aug 24 2020, 6:14 PM

Gehel closed this task as Resolved.Sep 1 2020, 12:27 PM