Great new features, but a bit "hidden". Any way of making these functionalities more obvious to someone using the sidebar search?
----- "David Gerard" <[email protected]> wrote: > From: "David Gerard" <[email protected]> > To: "English Wikipedia" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, 2 June, 2009 23:15:13 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, > Portugal > Subject: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] en.wiki migrated to new search backend > > New search for everyone. not just us! > > > - d. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Robert Stojnic <[email protected]> > Date: 2009/6/2 > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] en.wiki migrated to new search backend > To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> > > > Just a quick update, a couple of days ago all of this stuff got enabled on > all WMF projects. The delay has mainly been due to us having to order more > hardware (particularly RAM) since my initial estimate of how much we needed > was somewhat off. > > Cheers, r. > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Robert Stojnic <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > We now have english wikipedia fully migrated to new servers / new search > > backend. We cannot fully migrate other wikis until we resolve some hardware > > issues. In the meantime, here is the overview of new features now deployed > > on en.wiki: > > > > 1) Did you mean... - we now have search suggestions. Care has been taken to > > provide suggestions that are context-sensitive, i.e. on phrases, proper > > names, etc.. > > > > 2) fuzzy and wildcard queries - a word can be made fuzzy by adding ~ to > > it's end, e.g. query sarah~ thompson~ will give all different spellings and > > similar names to sarah thompson. Wildcards can now be prefix and suffix, > > e.g. *stan will give various countries in central asia. > > > > 3) prefix: - using this magic prefix, queries can be limited to pages > > beginning with certain prefix. E.g. > > mwsuggest prefix:Wikipedia:Village Pump > > will search all village pumps and archives for mwsuggest. This should be > > especially useful for archive searching in concert with inputbox or > > searchbox > > > > 4) intitle: - using this magic prefix, queries can be limited to titles > > only > > > > 5) generally improved quality of search results via usage of related > > articles (based on co-occurrence of links), anchor text, text abstracts, > > proximity within articles, sections, redirects, improved stemming and such > > > > Cheers, Robert > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
