Sage, I believe that this has just been patched. Hopefully this fix will be rolled out to users soon.
Pine On Oct 1, 2014 8:36 AM, "Sage Ross" <[email protected]> wrote: > From a user POV, a good first step would be to make section redirects work > on mobile. On apps and mobile web, in contrast to desktop, titles that > redirect to specific sections still simply load the top of the article. > Those redirected titles are among the most common things a user might > search for within an article... essentially a hand-curated little search > index. > > -Sage > > On Wednesday, October 1, 2014, Lila Tretikov <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I wonder if we need to think of this from user POV: >> >> What would they want to find >> Where is it in the article >> >> In order to do this we can look at the search results on mobile (and >> especially where they are failing today without GS) >> >> If we find out that most of this information for example is present in >> the first paragraph... we may only need to index it. And it would also >> focus us on improving summaries as a priority... >> >> L >> >> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:56 AM, rupert THURNER <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> how is this done in epub format? >>> >>> rupert >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:44 AM, renaud gaudin <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > Full text search engine was not left out for performance reasons but >>> for >>> > practical ones. >>> > Yes, we don't want people to generate the index on their phone. Except >>> for >>> > tiny tiny zim files, it would be too much CPU, battery and time >>> consuming. >>> > But we do want to add full text search to Android. >>> > It could work today but the search index is a (large) folder so it >>> would be >>> > a pain to setup. >>> > As soon as we integrate both the ZIM file and the index in a single >>> file, >>> > we'll enable full text search on the Android App. >>> > >>> > Hope that helps, >>> > >>> > renaud >>> > >>> > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) < >>> [email protected]> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Dmitry Brant, 01/10/2014 01:07: >>> >>> >>> >>> Looking at the Kiwix app for Android, it doesn't seem to have >>> full-text >>> >>> search within articles (unless I missed it). I assume that this was >>> left >>> >>> out of the Android version for performance reasons. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Don't assume, ask Emmanuel (cc Offline-l). >>> >> If I understand correctly, you're talking of small selections of >>> articles >>> >> (hundreds or thousands). Making an index for tens of GB of text takes >>> hours, >>> >> so Kiwix doesn't always make one (on desktop, you usually download the >>> >> pre-made index). But for few articles, the problem is easier (and one >>> can >>> >> also reduce compression). >>> >> In general, I have no idea what it means that "zero team starts to >>> think >>> >> about pre-loaded content": sounds a lot like reinventing Kiwix, which >>> would >>> >> be a disastrous idea. :) >>> >> >>> >> Nemo >>> >> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> Offline-l mailing list >>> >> [email protected] >>> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l >>> > >>> > >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >
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