Hi, this is a follow-up to my posts regarding "The Ideal Wiki Software" on foundation-l, from late January.
I've uploaded my Wikimedia Commons image/media search tool, dubbed "Mayflower", to the toolserver; it's available at http:// tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/mayflower/.
Just to recap, this tool allows full-text searching of the Commons database, returning a gallery-based results page, much like Google Images and similar services. The main goal was to make a user- friendly interface, so that even non-Wikimedians can take advantage of it.
As I said back in January, I'm still interested in Brianna Laugher's idea of making a gallery-based, full-text search feature available as a MediaWiki extension, so that it can take advantage of the existing MediaWiki search index and the stability of the main servers.
Any comments and/or suggestions would be most welcome.
(Sorry if this looks like an advertisement; I don't usually advertise new tools, but I thought the foundation-l and commons-l communities would be interested.)
Cheers,
Tangotango