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Topic filtering not working in beta
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Description

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

Event Timeline

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

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

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)

Script is currently at simplewiki.

Etonkovidova subscribed.

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!