CirrusSearch is also enabled on http://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/
I am either impatient or it's not finding stuff in descriptions. Cheers, Katie On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]>wrote: > Did I say it'll take until next year before we have the new search > infrastructure? Looks like I was wrong, it's being beta tested on > mediawiki.org already. Time to check how well it works with wikibase, > then! > > Let's ask about that in the call tomorrow. > > -- daniel > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Betreff: [Wikitech-l] New search backend live on mediawiki.org > Datum: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:20:10 -0400 > Von: Nikolas Everett <[email protected]> > Antwort an: Wikimedia developers > <[email protected].**org<[email protected]> > > > An: Wikimedia developers > <[email protected].**org<[email protected]> > > > > Today we threw the big lever and turned on our new search backend at > mediawiki.org. It isn't the default yet but it is just about ready for > you > to try. Here is what is we think we've improved: > 1. Templates are now expanded during search so: > 1a. You can search for text included in templates > 1b. You can search for categories included in templates > 2. The search engine is updated very quickly after articles change. > 3. A few funky things around intitle and incategory: > 3a. You can combine them with a regular query (incategory:kings peaceful) > 3b. You can use prefix searches with them (incategory:norma*) > 3c. You can use them everywhere in the query (roger incategory:normans) > > What we think we've made worse and we're working on fixing: > 1. Because we're expanding templates some things that probably shouldn't > be searched are being searched. We've fixed a few of these issues but I > wouldn't be surprised if more come up. We opened Bug 53426 regarding audio > tags. > 2. The relative weighting of matches is going to be different. We're > still fine tuning this and we'd appreciate any anecdotes describing search > results that seem out of order. > 3. We don't currently index headings beyond the article title in any > special way. We'll be fixing that soon. (Bug 53481) > 4. Searching for file names or clusters of punctuation characters doesn't > work as well as it used to. It still works reasonably well if you surround > your query in quotes but it isn't as good as it was. (Bugs 53013 and > 52948) > 5. "Did you mean" suggestions currently aren't highlighted at all and > sometimes we'll suggest things that aren't actually better. (Bugs 52286 and > 52860) > 6. incategory:"category with spaces" isn't working. (Bug 53415) > > What we've changed that you probably don't care about: > 1. Updating search in bulk is much more slow then before. This is the > cost of expanding templates. > 2. Search is now backed by a horizontally scalable search backend that is > being actively developed (Elasticsearch) so we're in a much better place to > expand on the new solution as time goes on. > > Neat stuff if you run your own MediaWiki: > CirrusSearch is much easier to install than our current search > infrastructure. > > So what will you notice? Nothing! That is because while the new search > backend (CirrusSearch) is indexing we've left the current search > infrastructure as the default while we work on our list of bugs. You can > see the results from CirrusSearch by performing your search as normal and > adding "&srbackend=CirrusSearch" to the url parameters. > > If you notice any problems with CirrusSearch please file bugs directly for > it: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/enter_bug.cgi?product=** > MediaWiki%20extensions&**component=CirrusSearch<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=CirrusSearch> > > Nik Everett > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikidata-tech mailing list > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech> > -- Katie Filbert Wikidata Developer Wikimedia Germany e.V. | NEW: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Phone (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Germany - Society for the Promotion of free knowledge eV Entered in the register of Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg under the number 23 855 as recognized as charitable by the Inland Revenue for corporations I Berlin, tax number 27/681/51985.
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