[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #1692: Plugin search quality improvements

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#1692: Plugin search quality improvements
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 Reporter:  tellyworth        |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Plugin Directory v3 - M3
Component:  Plugin Directory  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by danieliser):

 Love it, I do think a weighted score is more appropriate though, currently
 not even any of the sites that scrape the WP plugin repo can sort by true
 rank, they always show plugins with 1 5 star at the top simply because its
 a perfect 5. Thats not truly representative of the info though as often
 the plugins own author is the first to review it... Cough Cough, realizing
 I did this..

 Replying to [comment:2 tellyworth]:
 > I agree that user-controlled sorting and/or filtering will be useful.
 >
 > Ratings are somewhat complex and deserve to be considered separately I
 think. The best way to deal with them as far as search is concerned is to
 compute a score when ratings are changed, using a method something like
 this:
 >
 > http://www.evanmiller.org/ranking-items-with-star-ratings.html
 >
 > ..and store the result in postmeta for ElasticSearch to use as a ranking
 factor.

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