Topic filtering not working in beta
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	Sgs
	May 8 2025, 11:01 AM

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Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

Go to Special:Homepage
Select any number of topics
Observe the results counter

What happens?:
No results are found for any topic

What should have happened instead?:
There should be matching results for the topics for articles existing returned in the task set

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
Seen only in beta so far

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

Special:NewcomerTasksInfo is showing 0 results for all topics

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Mentioned In: T395414: Link Recommendations are not available on the beta cluster
Mentioned Here: T389053: Rename weighted_tags referencing ores in their names

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Sgs created this task.May 8 2025, 11:01 AM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptMay 8 2025, 11:01 AM

Sgs moved this task from Inbox to Backlog on the Growth-Team board.May 8 2025, 11:02 AM

Urbanecm_WMF mentioned this in T395414: Link Recommendations are not available on the beta cluster.May 31 2025, 4:09 PM

KStoller-WMF triaged this task as High priority.Jun 19 2025, 3:37 PM

KStoller-WMF moved this task from Backlog to Up Next (estimated tasks) on the Growth-Team board.

KStoller-WMF moved this task from Up Next (estimated tasks) to Current Sprint on the Growth-Team board.Jun 24 2025, 4:52 PM

KStoller-WMF edited projects, added Growth-Team (Current Sprint); removed Growth-Team.

Note that this affects topics on the beta cluster in general, not just for newcomer tasks.

No results for articletopic:media on beta cswiki: https://cs.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?search=articletopic%3Amedia&title=Speci%C3%A1ln%C3%AD%3AHled%C3%A1n%C3%AD&ns0=1&ns100=1&ns102=1
Yes results for articletopic:media on production cswiki: https://cs.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=articletopic%3Amedia&title=Speci%C3%A1ln%C3%AD%3AHled%C3%A1n%C3%AD&ns0=1&ns100=1&ns102=1

This will probably include the Discovery-Search team. (I briefly looked, but did not fine a phab tag for the articletopic: functionality in general)

This seems to be related to semi-recent renaming of the weighed tags, see T389053. I used importOresTopics.php at beta cswiki, and topics seem to be present again.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-releng) [2025-06-26T10:55:05Z] <urbanecm> deployment-prep: Run foreachwikiindblist growthexperiments extensions/GrowthExperiments/maintenance/importOresTopics.php --count=20000 --verbose (T393684)

Urbanecm_WMF claimed this task.Jun 26 2025, 10:55 AM

Script is currently at simplewiki.

Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from Incoming to QA on the Growth-Team (Current Sprint) board.Jun 26 2025, 5:07 PM

In T393684#10950311, @Urbanecm_WMF wrote:

Script is currently at simplewiki.

Since the wikis that are used for testing have topics selection available, the scope of task is done. Thank you, @Urbanecm_WMF for addressing the issue!

Etonkovidova awarded a token.Jun 27 2025, 6:31 PM

pfischer moved this task from needs triage to 2025.06.13 - 2025.07.04 on the Discovery-Search board.Jun 30 2025, 3:13 PM

pfischer edited projects, added Discovery-Search (2025.06.13 - 2025.07.04); removed Discovery-Search.

pfischer moved this task from Incoming to Reported on the Discovery-Search (2025.06.13 - 2025.07.04) board.Jul 14 2025, 3:48 PM

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Topic filtering not working in beta
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