Hi guys, as far as I know, there is also a project in GESIS institute that couples Semantic MediaWiki and Solr to get cool faceted search. Simon Bachenberg (in Cc) will make the presentation of this project soon on a conference.
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2012/SolrStore ----- Yury Katkov On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Asher Feldman <[email protected]> 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_memoriesand > the Wikidata team is working on using Solr in their extensions as > well. > > 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 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. > > 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. > > -Asher > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
