Dear wikilibrarians, during Wikimania I had the opportunity to speak with some developers who told me that, if in these years there has been an hard work on MediaWiki search engine (especially for optimizing it for Wikipedia and other projects), Wikisource as a project has always been omitted. As far as I can tell, the search engine in Wikisource fails to understand clearly that Index: and Page: are *fundamental* namespaces, and (at least in it.s, where we have an Author: namespace) it fails often in finding authors as well. I would like to ask you if some hacks or measures has been taken in your project, or if there is a solution we could ask together directly to the developers.
Aubrey
Am Donnerstag, 9. September 2010 schrieb Andrea Zanni:
Dear wikilibrarians, during Wikimania I had the opportunity to speak with some developers who told me that, if in these years there has been an hard work on MediaWiki search engine (especially for optimizing it for Wikipedia and other projects), Wikisource as a project has always been omitted. As far as I can tell, the search engine in Wikisource fails to understand clearly that Index: and Page: are *fundamental* namespaces, and (at least in it.s, where we have an Author: namespace) it fails often in finding authors as well. I would like to ask you if some hacks or measures has been taken in your project, or if there is a solution we could ask together directly to the developers.
In your preferences, you can select the namespaces searched by default (choose the "Search options" or "Opzioni di ricerca" tab). With $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault, a global default can be set, see
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault
Or do you mean the (non-main?) namespaces aren't indexed properly as regards the needs of Wikisource?
Best regards, Alexander
Or do you mean the (non-main?) namespaces aren't indexed properly as regards the needs of Wikisource?
I intended both. I would like to enhance the global search settings, but the command you gave me (that is very useful) seems to act only in the LocalSettings.php: is there anything that could work via Common.js?
It's probably easy to request the modification, but I would like to know how the other Wikisources dealt with the same issues (if they did).
Aubrey
PS: Regarding indexing, I just remember one dev who told me that the search engine is always tested on Wikipedias and other projects, never on Wikisources.
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