Re: [Wikitech-l] a slightly weird search result in the Italian Wikipedia

2012-09-17 Thread Oren Bochman
The algorithm used to rank search results uses ... a variant of page rank so the reasons may lay off the actual page. - Oren Bochman On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > "Autopratica" is actually not a valid word: or rather, it's a neologism > from a new/fringe theory,

Re: [Wikitech-l] a slightly weird search result in the Italian Wikipedia

2012-09-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
"Autopratica" is actually not a valid word: or rather, it's a neologism from a new/fringe theory, possibly grammatical thanks to the productivity of auto- but slightly confusing due to the jargon-meaning of "pratica" here. That said, the reason is surely in that link label, which is the only

Re: [Wikitech-l] a slightly weird search result in the Italian Wikipedia

2012-09-16 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Aha, this may be related. An Italian Wikipedia found it puzzling. -- Amir 2012/9/16 Petr Onderka : > I think it's related to the other search result (Fiori di Bach): > >> … necessarie per effettuare [[diagnosi|autodiagnosi]] e >> [[terapia|autopratica]]. > > That article links to the article "T

Re: [Wikitech-l] a slightly weird search result in the Italian Wikipedia

2012-09-16 Thread Petr Onderka
I think it's related to the other search result (Fiori di Bach): > … necessarie per effettuare [[diagnosi|autodiagnosi]] e > [[terapia|autopratica]]. That article links to the article "Terapia", but the link text is "autopratica", so, presumably, the search engine takes this to mean that "terapi

Re: [Wikitech-l] a slightly weird search result in the Italian Wikipedia

2012-09-16 Thread John
sorry, should really double check my facts "Care" redirects not cure http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&langpair=auto|en&rurl=translate.google.com&tbb=1&twu=1&u=http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php%3Ftitle%3DSpeciale:PuntanoQui/Terapia%26hidelinks%3D1&usg=ALkJrh

Re: [Wikitech-l] a slightly weird search result in the Italian Wikipedia

2012-09-16 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I'm not sure that I understand what you mean. 2012/9/16 John : > That would be because the word cure is a redirect to that page > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Amir E. Aharoni > wrote: >> My Italian is rusty, and I don't have a dictionary here, but if I have >> to guess, then I suppose tha

Re: [Wikitech-l] a slightly weird search result in the Italian Wikipedia

2012-09-16 Thread John
That would be because the word cure is a redirect to that page On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > My Italian is rusty, and I don't have a dictionary here, but if I have > to guess, then I suppose that it means "self-curing". This may be > related to therapy ("terapia"), bu

Re: [Wikitech-l] a slightly weird search result in the Italian Wikipedia

2012-09-16 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
My Italian is rusty, and I don't have a dictionary here, but if I have to guess, then I suppose that it means "self-curing". This may be related to therapy ("terapia"), but still, why does it show up in the results even though the word doesn't appear there? Does the Wikipedia search engine have cl

Re: [Wikitech-l] a slightly weird search result in the Italian Wikipedia

2012-09-16 Thread John
What does autopratica mean? On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > Hi, > > If I search for the word "autopratica" [1] in the Italian Wikipedia, > the article "Terapia" [2] comes up as the first result. That word > doesn't appear in that article. Why does it appear in the resul

[Wikitech-l] a slightly weird search result in the Italian Wikipedia

2012-09-16 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, If I search for the word "autopratica" [1] in the Italian Wikipedia, the article "Terapia" [2] comes up as the first result. That word doesn't appear in that article. Why does it appear in the results? [1] https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=autopratica&title=Speciale%3ARicerca [2] h