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(a)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(a)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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