On 10/13/11 5:47 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
Unfortunately we currently have zero developers working on search (as far as I know). There are several more significant search bugs that are also not going to be fixed any time soon. Another issue is that our search engine is Java while the rest of MediaWiki is PHP. This makes sense for performance reasons, but makes the pool of potential developers who are able and willing to work on it much smaller. In other words, this might get fixed in a few years, but I wouldn't hold my breathe. In the meantime, it would be good to follow Sarah's lead and proactively curate the content we have so that there is less potential for astonishment in our search results.
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.