If you have some free time this week, it would be great if you could try out manually testing the new search at test2.wikipedia.org . That's a test wiki, so you can create new pages, add test text to them, and then check whether the search works properly to find or exclude those pages in search results. More information about the schedule and testing is below. Some ideas for stuff you could test:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing/Test_backlog#Search http://thebraidytester.com/downloads/YouAreNotDoneYet.pdf (especially Filenames, Text Entry Fields, Sorting Order, the API, and Security) And we'd love testing in multiple languages! Hope this is fun! best, Sumana Harihareswara -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Wikitech-l] CirrusSearch live on test2wiki Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 17:07:00 -0700 From: Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, If you haven't been following along with development, we're working on replacing MWSearch/lsearchd with CirrusSearch (powered by Elasticsearch). Nik and I been working on this for the last several weeks and now it's ready for wider testing outside of labs. This is invitation for you to play with some totally alpha software and report all kinds of bugs you may find. So hop on over to https://test2.wikipedia.org and mess around with Special:Search and the API's list search and prefix search. When testing this, it's useful to compare results from the old and new engines. I added some query parameters that let you toggle between them. Just add srbackend=LuceneSearch|CirrusSearch to force one or the other. All bugs can be filed in BZ under the CirrusSearch component[0]. Depending on how things go, we'd like to roll this out for mw.org on the 28th. Happy bug hunting :D -Chad [0] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=CirrusSearch _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ QA mailing list QA@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa
