Well, of the five, the fifth is irrelevant, and the first will be obvious automatically once you start typing. WP:S has the descriptions copied verbatim (admittedly poor), but I think we all know how often that gets viewed. I'd be neglect to introduce something else to the search bar itself for fear of clutter, but if you search and don't get redirected to a page, it would make sense to have a quick tiplist to help users out.
~Amory
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 18:31, Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.comwrote:
Great new features, but a bit "hidden". Any way of making these functionalities more obvious to someone using the sidebar search?
----- "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
From: "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, 2 June, 2009 23:15:13 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland,
Portugal
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] en.wiki migrated to new search
backend
New search for everyone. not just us!
- d.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Stojnic rainmansr@gmail.com Date: 2009/6/2 Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] en.wiki migrated to new search backend To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Just a quick update, a couple of days ago all of this stuff got enabled
on
all WMF projects. The delay has mainly been due to us having to order
more
hardware (particularly RAM) since my initial estimate of how much we
needed
was somewhat off.
Cheers, r.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Robert Stojnic rainmansr@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,
We now have english wikipedia fully migrated to new servers / new
search
backend. We cannot fully migrate other wikis until we resolve some
hardware
issues. In the meantime, here is the overview of new features now
deployed
on en.wiki:
- Did you mean... - we now have search suggestions. Care has been
taken to
provide suggestions that are context-sensitive, i.e. on phrases, proper names, etc..
- fuzzy and wildcard queries - a word can be made fuzzy by adding ~ to
it's end, e.g. query sarah~ thompson~ will give all different spellings
and
similar names to sarah thompson. Wildcards can now be prefix and
suffix,
e.g. *stan will give various countries in central asia.
- prefix: - using this magic prefix, queries can be limited to pages
beginning with certain prefix. E.g. mwsuggest prefix:Wikipedia:Village Pump will search all village pumps and archives for mwsuggest. This should
be
especially useful for archive searching in concert with inputbox or searchbox
- intitle: - using this magic prefix, queries can be limited to titles
only
- generally improved quality of search results via usage of related
articles (based on co-occurrence of links), anchor text, text
abstracts,
proximity within articles, sections, redirects, improved stemming and
such
Cheers, Robert
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