On 08/28/2013 02:20 PM, Nikolas Everett wrote: > Today we threw the big lever and turned on our new search backend at > mediawiki.org. It isn't the default yet but it is just about ready for you > to try. Here is what is we think we've improved: > 1. Templates are now expanded during search so: > 1a. You can search for text included in templates > 1b. You can search for categories included in templates > 2. The search engine is updated very quickly after articles change. > 3. A few funky things around intitle and incategory: > 3a. You can combine them with a regular query (incategory:kings peaceful) > 3b. You can use prefix searches with them (incategory:norma*) > 3c. You can use them everywhere in the query (roger incategory:normans)
Template expansion and category intersection search - so exciting! Thank you, Nik and Chad, for working on this. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
