Just got merged today, playing with it in betalabs. The migration will not
be instantaneous though because not every wiki is using CirrusSearch yet
which is a prerequisite.


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Tomasz Finc <[email protected]> wrote:

> And is that migration complete ?
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Max Semenik <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > They will be gone with Solr (or its schema, ro be precise).
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Tomasz Finc <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> So are their any technical limitations to experiment with both right
> now?
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> > I'm saying there is use cases for both.
> >> >
> >> >  I would expect a site wide nearby feature to help me discover new
> >> > places nearby that I should visit (Wikivoyage even has a 'Go next'
> >> > section which does this)
> >> >
> >> > When I'm in a place, on the page itself I would like to be able to see
> >> > map that helps me explore a city and find places to eat.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Max Semenik <[email protected]
> >
> >> > wrote:
> >> >> I imagine that if someone's in London they're much more likely to be
> >> >> interested in finding a place to see or to eat at rather than to
> find a
> >> >> next
> >> >> city for their trip. Unless all their touristic goals consist of
> >> >> putting
> >> >> check marks near city names in a looong list:)
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I'm not sure we'd want to bring in secondary points - I can imagine
> >> >>> the real use of Special:Nearby on Wikivoyage is for travellers who
> are
> >> >>> looking for places to go to next that are nearby e.g. by train/bus.
> >> >>> Somewhere like London would report Cambridge, Stonehenge or Oxford
> as
> >> >>> being nearby even though they are 60+ miles apart.. yet currently it
> >> >>> only shows 8 districts in London.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I imagine something like the in article Nearby pages  that we
> >> >>> currently have in beta would be a better vehicle for secondary
> >> >>> points...
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Is there anyway we can guide a volunteer developer to do this and is
> >> >>> anyone interested? I'd love to see this moved along and give WV the
> >> >>> nearby it deserves.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Max Semenik <
> [email protected]>
> >> >>> wrote:
> >> >>> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]>
> >> >>> > wrote:
> >> >>> >>
> >> >>> >> Actually my question is about further tweaking this... please
> >> >>> >> reread my
> >> >>> >> email.
> >> >>> >
> >> >>> >
> >> >>> > D'oh!
> >> >>> >
> >> >>> > So the problem is not in radius but in what to display.
> >> >>> >
> https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/784
> >> >>> > discusses how geo search can be made more useful for WV. Our
> present
> >> >>> > Nearby
> >> >>> > implementation that searches for primary coordinaes only is not
> >> >>> > helpful
> >> >>> > because the wiki consists of large pages with a lot of POIs
> around.
> >> >>> > My
> >> >>> > current work on porting to Elasticsearch would allow a sane
> spatial
> >> >>> > search
> >> >>> > for secondary coordinates, once it's complete we can experiment
> with
> >> >>> > adding
> >> >>> > a Wikiversity-specific mode for Nearby. With a lot of points
> around,
> >> >>> > there
> >> >>> > should be no need to have a continent-sized radius.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> --
> >> >>> Jon Robson
> >> >>> * http://jonrobson.me.uk
> >> >>> * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson
> >> >>> * @rakugojon
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Jon Robson
> >> > * http://jonrobson.me.uk
> >> > * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson
> >> > * @rakugojon
> >
> >
>
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