I tried this on a search for "Sør-Aurdal" (a municipality in Norway), dropped the dash and wrote "sørau" and got a hit on "Søraust-Svalbard naturreservat" among other things. The topmost hit was "søraurdøl", which is a denomyn for someone from Sør-Aurdal. It seems to me that a spelling error is compensated with a fuzzy search for long(est?) words, but that imply nearly completing the word if there is a spelling error.
What if the topmost entry in the list had a less aggressive fuzzy search, and used shorter words? I tried several other searches, and somehow "sørau" seems to be difficult. All searches was on nowiki. I'm a bit impressed... :D On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Sage Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > 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
