Sorry for writing a novel!
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Guillaume Paumier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Nik Everett added a lot of information about future CirrusSearch changes > to the next edition of Tech News (#26, due to be sent on Monday). (Thank > you, Nik :) > > We can't include all of it in the newsletter, so below is the original > text with all the details. The newsletter will point to this email for > further information. > > _______________________________________________________________ > > > - CirrusSearch updates (with 1.24wmf10) > - Categories will now be considered in result ranking which should > improve results > - We took a shortcut to get this deployed (much) more quickly > and the consequences are that the incategory operator won't work for > up to > 24 hours after the deployment. We'll make this time as short as > possible. > If this is going to be a horrible pain then file a bug > > <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=CirrusSearch> > against > Cirrus with the wiki you work on. We can either prioritize your wiki > so the > outage is very small or, if its a big enough deal, come up with a > workaround. > - Text from the lead paragraph in the article will be given a boost > when ranking results which should also improve results > - This will take some time to roll onto the wikis after wmf10 > because the index will have to be rebuilt. Days, likely. > - I don't imagine this'll have any impact on wiktionary and > commons but file a bug > > <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=CirrusSearch> > against > Cirrus if it seems like it has a negative impact on results > - We're on track to add support for searching in article source > including regular expressions. See [the documentation > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#insource:>] for > more. > - Like the lead paragraph the article source will take some time > to roll into the index after the deployment. > - Right now we haven't implemented snippet extraction from > article source searches. You'll only get snippets back from the > regular > search terms. If you don't have any regular search terms you'll get > back a > snippet from the beginning of the article. I know this isn't ideal > at all, > and its on the list of things to fix. > - We'll cut all wikis over to a new snippet extractor > - You should only notice improvements in the snippets generated > but if you see any trouble file a bug > > <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=CirrusSearch> > against > Cirrus > > > -- > Guillaume Paumier > Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > >
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