If I'm, say, building a web app that could benefit from that kind of search suggestion tool, is there an API I can use?
-Sage On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Dan Garry <dga...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hey all, > > In the continued quest to make the search bar a better tool, the Wikimedia > Foundation's Discovery Department > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery> has put a completion > suggester into Beta Features. The tool functions with search-as-you-type, > with a small tolerance for typos and spacing in finding results. Possible > matches are then displayed as you type in a drop down menu, hopefully > eliminating the need to perform a fulltext search with landing page and > all. You can read more details at mediawiki.org > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch/CompletionSuggester> > and use the talk page for now for feedback. > > The tool is now available and will only be enabled for the article > namespace for now, and will progress into full production at some point > hopefully in early 2016, depending on feedback. It's going to be important > to get feedback from regular contributors who use search to make sure that > any of the basic feature requests for searching the main space can at least > be addressed while in Beta Features. > > Thanks! > > Dan > > -- > Dan Garry > Lead Product Manager, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
