Hey Dario,

there is on simple fix we want to apply rather sooner than later, which is to use the number of language links for ranking. This should work rather well. The thing is that this is kinda hard to implement in MySQL, I figured, and that we would need to use something Lucene based (probably Solr) for that. The Solr extension is quite far, but we currently are not working on getting it deployed. In short, it's all in the pipes, and it just takes a bit...

Cheers,
Denny




2013/4/19 Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org>
Hi Lydia and all,

great to hear about this deployment, I am particularly excited about qualifier support (as per my previous post).

Since you also mention improvements to search, I was wondering whether you had specific plans for work on search functionality.
Unless I use the Items by title page, if  type "Berlin" in a regular search form the item I am actually looking for (Q64) is ranked #34 in the search results (i.e. three clicks away on the "more" link).

I'd be curious to hear the team's thoughts on how to make search more effective and user friendly.

Dario

On Apr 18, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:

> Heya folks :)
>
> We have just deployed qualifiers
> (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Data_model_primer#Qualifiers)
> and bug fixes on wikidata.org. Qualifiers! Bug fixes are especially
> for Internet Explorer 8. Please let me know how it is working for you
> now if you're using IE8 and if there are still any major problems when
> using Wikidata with it.
>
> In addition the script we ran on the database to make search
> case-insensitive has finished running. This should be another huge
> step towards a nice search here. (This change also affects the
> autocomplete for items and properties.)
>
> As usual please let me know what you think and tell me if there are any issues.
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia
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