Hi Nik,
thank you.

A question:
the new search make the whole system of enabling specific namespaces for
the search obsolete? this was a problem for Wikisource (I just noticed that
an important ns was not enabled), but with Cirrus now it seems perfectly ok.

Aubrey


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Nikolas Everett <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello ambassadors,
>
> I have more CirrusSearch updates for folks who haven't tuned out this
> conversation already:
> 1.  Cirrus is now the primary search backend for all wikis that used to
> have it as primary before our November outage, closed, enwiksource, cawiki,
> and itwiktionary.
> 2.  Cirrus is available as a betafeature on all wikisources,
> wikimediawikis, wikimaniawikis, and wiktionaries.
> 3.  We're indexing commons, wikispecies, and all the wikinewses now.
>
> Nik
>
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Nikolas Everett <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Small Cirrus updates:
>>
>> You can now enable Cirrus as a beta feature on all wikis on which Cirrus
>> is a secondary.  On English wikisource the link is
>> https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures.
>> The name of the feature is "New search" for now.  Yup, we know that it
>> won't be "new" for too long but we hope that it'll become the standard
>> search before it stops being "new".
>>
>> Mediawiki has cirrus as primary now.
>>
>> You can now negate incategory: and intitle:.  Example:
>> https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?search=incategory%3A%22Featured+texts%22+-incategory%3Anovels&title=Special%3ASearch.
>>   Documentation:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search/CirrusSearchFeatures#Changes_to_filters_.28intitle:.2C_and_incategory:.29
>> This was another small change the wikinews requested.
>>
>> I'm still looking to start switching wikis that are currently running
>> cirrus as a secondary to primary starting next Wednesday or so.  We've also
>> scheduled adding more wikis to try cirrus as secondary:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search#Wikis  Note that the date on that
>> page is the date that I start indexing so add a day or two for those wikis
>> to finish indexing if you are following along at home.
>>
>> Nik
>>
>
>
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