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> On Jan 24, 2014, at 7:55 AM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Jan 24, 2014 1:54 AM, "Yuri Astrakhan" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, I am thinking of implementing a >> >> #CATQUERY <query> >> >> magic keyword for the category pages. >> >> When this keyword is present, the category page would execute a query >> against the search backend instead of normal category behavior and show >> result as if those pages were actually marked with this category. >> >> For example, this would allow Greek Philosophers category page to be >> quickly redefined as >> a cross-section of greeks & philosophers categories: >> >> #CATQUERY incategory:Greek incategory:Philosopher >> >> Obviously the community will be able to define much more elaborate > queries, >> including the ordering (will be supported by the new search backend) >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > I like the idea in principle, but think the syntax could use bikeshedding ;) > > If we use this as category pages, im a little worried that people could get > confused and try to add [[category:Greek philosophers]] to a page, and > expect it to work. We would need good error handling in that situation Also, at least at first, you couldn't use one of these synthetic categories to filter search results so you couldn't use them to build other synthetic categories. > >> including the ordering (will be supported by the new search backend) > > Cool. I didnt realize search would support this. That's a pretty big deal > since people expect there categorirs alphabetized. So I looked into it and it would be easy to implement with Cirrus _but_ I'm not yet sure about the memory implications. We have a ton of headroom on memory now so it might not matter but I need to test it before I can be as confident that it is ok as I was last night at 1am. It may have caveats like synthetic categories must be less than 1000 articles or not all results are included. > > Another cool project would be to expand intersection/Dyanamic P age List > (Wikimedia) to be able to use search as a different backend (however, that > extension would need quite a bit of refactoring to get there) > > -bawolff > _______________________________________________ > 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
