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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > >
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