I finally got sick of bug 2815 (search results should show thumbnails), and added thumbnail display for image results in MediaWiki's core search results display.
Rather than try to port it to the LuceneSearch plugin, I've started rolling out the MWSearch plugin on http://test.wikipedia.org and http://commons.wikimedia.org -- this uses MediaWiki's core search front-end together with our custom Lucene back-end.
This is definitely an improvement for Commons, where search results are now beginning to be actually useful. ;)
But there are definitely some UI elements we should improve on the core interface before rolling it out on other sites -- pretty it up a bit, include the search relevance results from Lucene, etc. Possibly additional thumbnails for pages that _contain_ images but are not themselves image pages.
Some of this will need to be changed in Special:Search; some may need some tweaks to the SearchEngine base class and the MWSearch extension.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
Wow, that's great news! Indeed we can finally have proper image results without having to rely on external tools or extensions.
Thanks brion!
-- Hay / Husky
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
I finally got sick of bug 2815 (search results should show thumbnails), and added thumbnail display for image results in MediaWiki's core search results display.
Rather than try to port it to the LuceneSearch plugin, I've started rolling out the MWSearch plugin on http://test.wikipedia.org and http://commons.wikimedia.org -- this uses MediaWiki's core search front-end together with our custom Lucene back-end.
This is definitely an improvement for Commons, where search results are now beginning to be actually useful. ;)
But there are definitely some UI elements we should improve on the core interface before rolling it out on other sites -- pretty it up a bit, include the search relevance results from Lucene, etc. Possibly additional thumbnails for pages that _contain_ images but are not themselves image pages.
Some of this will need to be changed in Special:Search; some may need some tweaks to the SearchEngine base class and the MWSearch extension.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Husky huskyr@gmail.com wrote:
Wow, that's great news! Indeed we can finally have proper image results without having to rely on external tools or extensions.
Or stupid JavaScripts ;) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bryan?withJS=MediaWiki:ImageSearch.js
Bryan
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
I finally got sick of bug 2815 (search results should show thumbnails), and added thumbnail display for image results in MediaWiki's core search results display.
Rather than try to port it to the LuceneSearch plugin, I've started rolling out the MWSearch plugin on http://test.wikipedia.org and http://commons.wikimedia.org -- this uses MediaWiki's core search front-end together with our custom Lucene back-end.
This is definitely an improvement for Commons, where search results are now beginning to be actually useful. ;)
But there are definitely some UI elements we should improve on the core interface before rolling it out on other sites -- pretty it up a bit, include the search relevance results from Lucene, etc. Possibly additional thumbnails for pages that _contain_ images but are not themselves image pages.
Some of this will need to be changed in Special:Search; some may need some tweaks to the SearchEngine base class and the MWSearch extension.
Nice! Now people can see that out media repository actually has some media in it :-)
Now, if we could group the images together and show them as an "extended gallery" (with size and type information, maybe in a small font), the real estate that is the screen would be used much better.
Cheers, Magnus
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
But there are definitely some UI elements we should improve on the core interface before rolling it out on other sites -- pretty it up a bit, include the search relevance results from Lucene, etc. Possibly additional thumbnails for pages that _contain_ images but are not themselves image pages.
And the categories the pages are in! (Did you have time to look over that snippet I posted)
Bryan
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
But there are definitely some UI elements we should improve on the core interface before rolling it out on other sites -- pretty it up a bit, include the search relevance results from Lucene, etc. Possibly additional thumbnails for pages that _contain_ images but are not themselves image pages.
Is there a reason that this one uses <ol>? I'd prefer <ul> like the Lucene version.
Bryan
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Bryan Tong Minh wrote: | On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote: |> But there are definitely some UI elements we should improve on the core |> interface before rolling it out on other sites -- pretty it up a bit, |> include the search relevance results from Lucene, etc. Possibly |> additional thumbnails for pages that _contain_ images but are not |> themselves image pages. |> | Is there a reason that this one uses <ol>? I'd prefer <ul> like the | Lucene version.
Same reason many of our other lists have numbers -- so you can see the numbers. :)
I have switched them to bullets now for two reasons: * They looked nice on the LuceneSearch plugin * When we skip results for pages which have been deleted but didn't get removed from the index yet, people are less likely to freak out about missing items if there's not a number next to them ;)
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)