On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Capabilities that exist today with the new search
include
template-based "boosting" of results, a feature that's already enabled
on Commons and which will boost quality content in search results:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Cirrussearch-boos…
For the record, negative boosting is possible as well. So if folks
wanted to add {{NSFW}} to media files that should appear lower in
search results and then apply a <100% boost to that template, that
would put those results further down. Of course that would likely have
unintended consequences, and also take us down the familiar road of
having to figure out what to label / not label.
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation