On 03/10/2013 07:50 AM, Waldir Pimenta wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to announce a recently created tool that might help the Wikimedia > technical community find stuff more easily. Sometimes relevant information > is buried in IRC chat logs, messages in any of several mailing lists, pages > in mediawiki.org, commit messages, etc. This tool (essentially a custom > google search engine that filters results to a few relevant URL patterns) > is aimed at relieving this problem. Test it here: http://hexm.de/mw-search > > The motivation for the tool came from a post by Niklas [1], specifically > the section "Coping with the proliferation of tools within your community". > In the comments section, Nemo announced his initiative to create a custom > google search to fit at least some of the requirements presented in that > section, and I've offered to help him tweak it further. The URL list is > still incomplete and can be customized by editing the page > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_technical_search (syncing with the > actual engine still will have to happen by hand, but should be quick). > > Besides feedback on whether the engine works as you'd expect, I would like > to start some discussion about the ability for Google's bots to crawl some > of the resources that are currently included in the URL filters, but return > no results. For example, the IRC logs at bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/. > Some workarounds are used (e.g. using github for code search since gitweb > isn't crawlable) but that isn't possible for all resources. What can we do > to improve the situation? > > --Waldir > > 1. > http://laxstrom.name/blag/2013/02/11/fosdem-talk-reflections-23-docs-code-and-community-health-stability/
Waldir, in case it helps you improve the Wikimedia tech search tool, I wanted you to see this post about Mozilla's codebase search tool: https://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2013/06/13/dxr-digests-the-firefox-codebase/ Try it out: http://dxr.mozilla.org/ -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
