Whee! On 18.10.2012, 22:22 Asher wrote:
> Hi all, > I'm excited to see that Max has made a lot of great progress in > adding Solr support to the GeoData extension so that we don't have > to use mysql for spatial search - > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27610/ > GeoData makes use of the Solarium php client, which is currently > included as a part of the extension. GeoData will be our second use > of Solar, after TranslationMemory extension which is already > deployed - > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Translation_memories > and the Wikidata team is working on using Solr in their extensions as well. A little comment on my choice of client library: I initially tried to use http://php.net/solr but quickly dicovered that it lacks many features, e.g. core support. > TranslationMemory also uses Solarium, a copy of which is also > bundled with and loaded from the extension. For a loading and > config example - > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations/mediawiki-config.git;a=blob;f=wmf-config/CommonSettings.php;h=1e7a0e24dcbea106042826474607ec065d328472;hb=HEAD#l2407 > I think Solr is the right direction for us to go in. Current > efforts can pave the way for a complete refresh of WMF's article > full text search as well as how our developers approach information > retrieval. We still need a Java developer to port our custom Lucene code to Solr in order to use Solr for wiki search. > We just need to make sure that these efforts are > unified, with commonality around the client api, configuration, > indexing (preferably with updates asynchronously pushed to Solr in > near real-time), and schema definition. This is important from an > operational aspect as well, where it would be ideal to have a single > distributed and redundant cluster. I've already discussed with Niklas the possibility of moving Solarium to a shared extension to keep things centralised. Guess we just need a repo set up to move forward. > It would be great to see the i18n, mobile tech, wikidata, and any > other interested parties collaborate and agree on a path forward, > with a quick sprint around common code that all can use. +1000000 -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
