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(a)googlemail.com>wrote;wrote:
Great new features, but a bit "hidden". Any
way of making these
functionalities more obvious to someone using the sidebar search?
----- "David Gerard" <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: "David Gerard"
<dgerard(a)gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)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(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2009/6/2
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] en.wiki migrated to new search backend
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)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(a)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:
>
> 1) 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..
>
> 2) 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.
>
> 3) 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
>
> 4) intitle: - using this magic prefix, queries can be limited to titles
> only
>
> 5) 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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