https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69771
Bug ID: 69771
Summary: English Wikisource specific request for tweak to
search results elevating a specific namespace
Product: Wikimedia
Version: wmf-deployment
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Site requests
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
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At English Wikisource, we have an issue that the main namespace is predominant
in search result, yet some of our namespace are of equal value in terms of
presentation for results. We would like to have searches give an equivalent
weighting to main namespace (works) and author: namespace (author pages,
ns:102). [It would seem that the default search result presentation from
CirrusSearch is more configured for a wiki where the primary presentation space
is the main ns.]
Example.
Search for 'Jules Verne'[1] presents 22 items of results to works where the
author is mentioned in the header template of main namespace works. Yet the
author page in the author: namespace ranks 23rd, yet is the only page where the
search phrase appears in the page title.
It would be desirable that if someone is searching for an author in a simple
search that the author: ns be presented as an early result. I am hoping that as
authors' names are reflected in the page title / {{PAGENAME}} parameter, that
this is a simpler fine-tuning of local criteria.
<ns id="102" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="Author" content=""
xml:space="preserve">Author</ns>
[1]
https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=jules+verne&go=Go
As a general note, that the other Wikisources may have a similar interest in a
configuration where they have separated namespace , and if it is able to be
undertaken at one that they may have similar requests for their respective
namespace.
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