Just got merged today, playing with it in betalabs. The migration will not
be instantaneous though because not every wiki is using CirrusSearch yet
which is a prerequisite.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
And is that migration complete ?
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Max Semenik <msemenik(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
They will be gone with Solr (or its schema, ro be
precise).
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
>
> So are their any technical limitations to experiment with both right
now?
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
I'm saying there is use cases for both.
>
> I would expect a site wide nearby feature to help me discover new
> places nearby that I should visit (Wikivoyage even has a 'Go next'
> section which does this)
>
> When I'm in a place, on the page itself I would like to be able to see
> map that helps me explore a city and find places to eat.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Max Semenik <msemenik(a)wikimedia.org
> > wrote:
> >> I imagine that if someone's in London they're much more likely to
be
> >> interested in finding a place to see or to eat at rather than to
find
a
> >> next
> >> city for their trip. Unless all their touristic goals consist of
> >> putting
> >> check marks near city names in a looong list:)
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm not sure we'd want to bring in secondary points - I can
imagine
> >>> the real use of Special:Nearby on Wikivoyage is for travellers who
are
> >>> looking for places to go to next
that are nearby e.g. by train/bus.
> >>> Somewhere like London would report Cambridge, Stonehenge or Oxford
as
> >>> being nearby even though they
are 60+ miles apart.. yet currently it
> >>> only shows 8 districts in London.
> >>>
> >>> I imagine something like the in article Nearby pages that we
> >>> currently have in beta would be a better vehicle for secondary
> >>> points...
> >>>
> >>> Is there anyway we can guide a volunteer developer to do this and is
> >>> anyone interested? I'd love to see this moved along and give WV the
> >>> nearby it deserves.
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Max Semenik <
msemenik(a)wikimedia.org>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Jon Robson
<jdlrobson(a)gmail.com>
> >>> > wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Actually my question is about further tweaking this... please
> >>> >> reread my
> >>> >> email.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > D'oh!
> >>> >
> >>> > So the problem is not in radius but in what to display.
> >>> >
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/784
> >>> > discusses how geo search
can be made more useful for WV. Our
present
> >>> > Nearby
> >>> > implementation that searches for primary coordinaes only is not
> >>> > helpful
> >>> > because the wiki consists of large pages with a lot of POIs
around.
> >>> > My
> >>> > current work on porting to Elasticsearch would allow a sane
spatial
> >>> > search
> >>> > for secondary coordinates, once it's complete we can experiment
with
> >>> > adding
> >>> > a Wikiversity-specific mode for Nearby. With a lot of points
around,
>>> > there
>>> > should be no need to have a continent-sized radius.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jon Robson
>>> *
http://jonrobson.me.uk
>>> *
https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson
>>> * @rakugojon
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Jon Robson
> *
http://jonrobson.me.uk
> *
https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson
> * @rakugojon