On Tue Jan 27 2015 at 1:40:35 PM Daniel Barrett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue Jan 27 2015 at 1:05:18 PM Daniel Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> (b) Search within a category. (Including transcluded category tags, > >> which Lucene cannot handle with its "incategory" keyword.) > > > Chad responds: > >MWSearch/lsearchd could not, no. But Cirrus/Elasticsearch can and does. > > Thanks Chad. We've been working on switching to CirrusSearch, but the > switch has proved to be nontrivial. Lucene gave great search results out of > the box. CirrusSearch's results, in our experience, are not as good out of > the box, and we've been tweaking it for months. > > I don't want to derail this thread so I'll leave it here. Please let us know (either on-list or in Phab or IRC or something) if there's anything we can do to improve it here. -Chad _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
