Search Platform/Documentation

= Docs and Other Links =
== Main Documentation ==
=== Search ===
* Why Search is Important—Why does the Search Platform team even exist?
* https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Search/Technical_interactions: how to build features on top of Search
*mw:Help:CirrusSearch—Information on how the Wikimedia search works.
** Completion Suggester—incremental search
* Search Glossary—a place for definitions, context, and links for terms we use that other people may not be familiar with
* Testing Search—testing search changes is complicated!
* Elasticsearch stats on Grafana
* Logstash for Elasticsearch/Cirrus (requires login)
* Data access and analysis guidelines used by the Search Platform team around data sources, or by other teams around Search Platform data sources, are documented on Meta
* BrowserBot—a browser test bot for search
* Top Unsuccessful Search Queries—The difficulties in creating a list of unsuccessful search results
* mw:Cross-wiki Search Result Improvements
* mw:TextCat—a software component used for doing language detection
* How to integrate with search through Weighted Tags
=== Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) ===
* Project page
* User Documentation
* Runbook
* Streaming Updater (including Runbook)
* Primary WDQS dashboard
* WDQS cluster overview
* Flink Cluster (rdf-streaming-updater) Dashboard
=== Misc ===
* Short presentation of the systems managed by the Search Platorm team (11' video, slides)
== Blog posts ==
* Language, Harmony, and Unpacking—A Year in the Life of a Search Nerd (April 2023)
* Permuting Khmer: Restructuring Khmer syllables for search (June 2020)
* Computational knowledge: Wikidata, Wikidata Query Service, and women who are mayors! (March 2020)
* The Anatomy of Search: a series on how full-text search engines work (2018–2019)
** A token of my affection (August 2018)
** Variation under nature (September 2018)
** The root of the problem (November 2018)
** A place for my stuff (March 2019)
** In search of… (September 2019)
* Hello, my name is ________: Searching for names is not always straightforward (May 2018)
* Confound it!—Supporting languages with multiple writing systems (March 2018)
* [video] (January 2018)
* Gnomes and trolls and hobgoblins (oh my!)—Failed queries and the vicarious fear of missing out (December 2017)
* So -happy to meet you: Advanced searching techniques on Wikimedia sites (November 2017)
* How we collaborated to build a new open source plugin to improve search results across language-wikis (October 2017)
* Admittedly loopy but not entirely absurd—Understanding our Search Relevance Survey (September 2017)
* Wikipedia, search, and the “цкщтп” keyboard (August 2017)
* Stripping question marks from Wikimedia searches (August 2016)
* Wikipedia seeks to speak your language (July 2016)
* Wikipedia Search Isn’t Necessarily Third BESt (September 2015)
== SLOs ==
* WDQS
* Search / Dashboard
== Dashboards ==
=== Superset ===
* Search user engagement 
* Search user engagement - geolocations
* Search user engagement - Emerging Languages
* Search Metrics
* Fulltext Head Queries
== Historical documentation ==
The Search Platform team was formerly part of the Discovery Department in Audiences; but, as part of the re-organization (tune-up) of June 2017, the Search Platform team is now part of Technology. Pages of historical note:
* Discovery Department (April 2015–December 2017)
* Search (prior to April 2015)