Wikimedia Sverige and se.wikimedia.org is happy to make search better. Do we need to make anything else to get it enabled or will this email make do?
*Med vänliga hälsningar, Jan Ainali* Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige <http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida> 0729 - 67 29 48 2013/10/17 Nikolas Everett <[email protected]> > Dear Ambassadors, > > I'm looking for volunteer wikis to try out the new search that Chad and > I've been working on called CirrusSearch. > > <sales pitch>Be a part of the second wave of wikis and influence new > search features!</sales pitch> > > Reality: > * We're reasonably sure CirrusSearch's language support is better than the > current search. [1] > * CirrusSearch indexes expanded templates. > * CirrusSearch indexes articles within a few seconds of when they are > changed. Articles that contain a changed template take longer but they are > also updated. > * Most of the special search syntax is the same. You can read the syntax > here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search/CirrusSearchFeatures > > What it means to volunteer: > If you volunteer your wiki we'll turn CirrusSearch on in "secondary" mode > where it'll keep itself up to date but all queries will still go through > the old search. You'll be able to get search results from the new search > engine for comparison by adding a url parameter to the search results > page. If you and the community that you represent aren't immediately blown > away by how much better it works we'll work with you to make it awesome. > > At some point, shortly after the new search has been deemed awesome, we'll > switch CirrusSearch to "primary" mode and all queries will go through it. > You'll be able to get at the old search results with a url parameter > similar to the one that you used to test CirrusSearch. If anything goes > wrong we'll switch you back to the old search. We'll keep that option open > for a few months. > > So who is ready to help make search better? > > Nik Everett > > [1]: Some languages (20ish) will see a huge improvement because > CirrusSearch understands their grammar and old search doesn't. Many other > languages will see an improvement because CirrusSearch is happy to search > all kinds of character sets while the current search isn't. Esperanto is > very well supported by the old search so would get worse. eo wikis should > probably wait until we've improved support. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > >
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