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
>>> >>
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>>
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