--- Daniel Ehrenberg <name12323(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
I hate to say this, but the seach engine in
Wikipedia is once again slowing
down the server. i don't think the new server can
keep up with the high
demand for seaches. Maybe we should postpone using
it until it works
completely. Or maybe we should make some restrictive
measure for searching,
like only signed in users can seach. We really need
another server.
Using wikipedia with the google search is really
painful. not all articles are found by far
and we are working not only for editors, also for
readers, who will be non loggued in most of the time,
and could have the feeling the encyclopedia is emptier
on some topics that it really is
What about enhanced search feature ? With some of the
articles being classified in groups ? Not all of them,
but for example, authors could be grouped in an author
list, and people could search in the author list
instead than in the whole encyclopedia ?
Exactly how much is the search feature used ? And
what's the proportion between real articles search and
meta search ?
I'll give an example...
on the french wiki, all the redirect articles about
common meta.articles have been deleted, for some said
they didnot belong to the encyclopedia itself.
Fine, but now, if I want to access someone talk page
for example, I do a first search in all articles, then
I get the more precise search box, then I give more
precision saying I want to look in user page, then I
do a second search, and I finally get the result. Same
for any help page.
How bright is that ? Looking in the whole database
first to have then the possibility to give more
precision to my search. That's inefficient. Is there
anything to do there ? At least an access to advanced
search ? Or does that exist and I did not realise ?
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