In 2020, the Growth team experimented with using morelike to put articles into topics. This algorithm wasn't the best one, but it is still technically supported by GrowthExperiments, despite we do not test against morelike, use it or otherwise depend on it.
Within this task, I suggest to drop the morelike support from GrowthExperiments.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T265163 Create a system to encode best practices into editing experiences | |||
| Open | None | T327563 Enable volunteers to configure Edit Check in ways that align with project policies and norms | |||
| Open | None | T327655 Epic: Migration of some GrowthExperiments features into MediaWiki core | |||
| Open | • Urbanecm_WMF | T323811 [EPIC] Community configuration 2.0: Factor Community configuration out of GrowthExperiments | |||
| Resolved | DMburugu | T367429 [Epic] FY 2024-25 Growth Maintenance Work | |||
| In Progress | Sgs | T367574 [Epic] Remove code for Special:EditGrowthConfig | |||
| Resolved | • Urbanecm_WMF | T383329 Drop support for morelike support from GrowthExperiments |
Change #1109422 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Set GENewcomerTasksTopicType to ores by default
Change #1109426 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] [DNM] Drop morelike support
Change #1109422 abandoned by Urbanecm:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Set GENewcomerTasksTopicType to ores by default
Reason:
ores topics are incompatible with the page being deleted... let's squash those two things
Hi @KStoller-WMF! Checking in with you on this one. Morelike is the algorithm for topic matching we used prior to ORES (the current one) years ago. Since we ultimately decided ORES performs better, morelike is currently unused. In this task, I'm suggesting to drop morelike support, as it is not an algorithm we're using (or intending to use in the future). Do you have any concerns with going ahead?
Do you have any concerns with going ahead?
No concerns! It sounds like this is a great clean-up task to help simplify and remove unused code.
Change #1109426 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Drop morelike support