Hi Nikolas, One of the grievances I have with the current search system is that it's incapable of offering suggestions with matches in the middle of the title (e.g. when searching for "X", also find "County X (some other words)" if such an article exist). Is CirrusSearch capable of this?
Thanks, Strainu 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
