Lennart, Conversely, for those of us who don't have ready access/knowledge to add the variant characters to our searches specific to languages (even if we know or loops from our chicken scratchings), it becomes difficult to find things in searches unless they are clumped together. For someone non-indigenous to the language finding Åland when I can only type or know Aland means I probably won't find something, which indicates means that there needs to be some wriggle room here.
When working at Wikidata, especially in your non-native language where they are not standard ascii characters is very difficult if you don't have know the characters. Regards, Billinghurst On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:14:43 +0000, Lennart Guldbrandsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > One problem on Swedish Wikipedia with the current search engine is that it > just doesn't do characters like å, ä and ö (which are three common letters > in Swedish) well. They are lumped together with a and o respectively, which > is like getting your i-words lumped together with your j-words. Åland is > followed by Alaska, for example. So, as one user answered this question, > does this function do this better? If it isn't, why should we test it on > Swedish Wikipedia? His words, not mine. > > > Best wishes, > > Lennart Guldbrandsson > > 070 - 207 80 05 > http://www.elementx.se - arbete > http://www.mrchapel.wordpress.com - personlig blogg > > > Presentation > @aliasHannibal - på Twitter > > "Tänk dig en värld där varje människa på den här planeten får fri tillgång > till världens samlade kunskap. Det är vårt mål." > > > Jimmy Wales > > From: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:32:30 +0200 > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Would any other wikis like to try out > a new search? > > Hi Nik, > > > > 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> > > > > I would have a question − sorry if it was answered already but I did not > find it mentionned in the Mediawiki.org pages − please point me to the > right place if so. > > > > > * CirrusSearch indexes expanded templates. > > How does CirrusSearch handle cross-namespace transclusions like the one > used on Wikisource? > > See for example > <https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/On_ne_badine_pas_avec_l%E2%80%99amour>, > which is merely the super-transclusion of text from the Page: namespace. > Search of whatever string from the play text does not (necessarily) return > the page of the play itself (though your mileage may vary [1]). > > > > Thanks! > > [1] For example, http://ur1.ca/fwoys does not return me > <https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_mots_tristes> ; but http://ur1.ca/fwoyt > does return me <https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Malheur_%C3%A0_moi_!>… _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
