Hi Michael,

It's the official signup page here?  https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/Wikimedia-search

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:27 AM Kévin Bois <kevin.bois@biblissima-condorcet.fr> wrote:

Hello,

I'm having a hard time setting up Cirrus Search on my Mediawiki / Wikibase instance, I'm quite confused so I thought I could ask for some help. :)

First, I followed the instructions to install both CirrusSearch and WikibaseCirrusSearch (WBCS) extensions, but I don't really know what my LocalSettings.php config file should look like.

On one hand, CirrusSearch asks for this option`$wgSearchType = 'CirrusSearch';`, on the other hand WBCS asks for `$wgWBCSUseCirrus = true;`. When I put them both, I get a php error : `mediawiki/extensions/CirrusSearch/includes/Profile/SearchProfileService.php: A profile repository type rescore named wikibase_base is already registered.`

1/ So, do I need only one of them or is something else missing in my config file ? I might have missed a step in the installation ?

2/ The weird thing is, if I remove one of the two option, the search is somewhat working and is different than before using CirrusSearch, but autocompletion seems off, as it autocomplete only strings like "Item:QXXX" where XXX is the QID. I would have expected an autocomplete on item labels, not on QIDs like on Wikidata

3/ I'm not sure either if I have to fire some CirrusSearch maintenance scripts when I'm toying around with WBCS options in LocalSettings.php, because it appears that WBCS extension doesn't have any.

I apology in advance because I'm pretty sure this is a confusing post, but there are quite a lot of questions in my head. :)

This code has been extracted in WikibaseCirrusSearch but during a transition period we kept the same code in both extensions (Wikibase and WikibaseCirrusSearch), enabling this code in both Wikibase and WikibaseCirrusSearch might lead to such error.
If my assumption is correct setting "disableCirrus" to true in the Wikibase settings array might solve the problem as it will disable the CirrusSearch integration code present in Wikibase letting the one present in WikibaseCirrusSearch works (enabled with $wgWBCSUseCirrus = true).
If not: having the exact version (or git revision hash) of these 3 extensions will help.

2/ By removing one of the two options you'll certainly end-up enabling/disabling CirrusSearch

3/ Yes in general you should run updateSearchIndexConfig.php and forceSearchIndex.php when enabling the extension, please see the README file in Cirrus, there are no specific maint script for the wikibase cirrus integration.

Hope it helps,

David.