<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span">Brandon,</font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">Would it be a lot of work to give primary weight in the Commons search listing order to files included in </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">1. Categories (top level only) and </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">2. Galleries </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">whose name matches the
search term (or is the plural thereof)?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">So the top files listed for cucumber, say, would be all the files shown in </span><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cucumber">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cucumber</a> and <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cucumbers">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cucumbers</a> ?</div><div><br></div><div>Andreas</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><br></span></font><blockquote style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman',
'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_2_0_15_131855718270259"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; ">On 10/13/11 5:47 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:</span><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_2_0_15_131855718270259"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; "><pre>><i> Unfortunately we currently have zero developers working on search (as
</i>><i> far as I know). There are several more significant search bugs that are
</i>><i> also not going to be fixed any time soon. Another issue is that our
</i>><i> search engine is Java while the rest of MediaWiki is PHP. This makes
</i>><i> sense for performance reasons, but makes the pool of potential
</i>><i> developers who are able and willing to work on it much smaller. In other
</i>><i> words, this might get fixed in a few years, but I wouldn't hold my
</i>><i> breathe. In the meantime, it would be good to follow Sarah's lead and
</i>><i> proactively curate the content we have so that there is less potential
</i>><i> for astonishment in our search results.
</i>
Yeah; this is really a curation issue and not a search engine issue.
Sadly, I'm one of the few people at the Foundation who knows Java or
could even work on this, but I expect that there would be much wailing
and gnashing of teeth were I to spend much time on this.
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