And here I am with more questions. ;-)
Can you explain how the lead paragraph section will work? For instance the Wikisources pages generally lead with a generic ns template, before starting on the body of the work.
Snippets ... with Wikisources poetry, is there a means to have the first line of a poem promoted to be a snippet? Thinking of this as much poetry is cited by its first line, so can see some synergy, especially if there was either some markup, or automatic recognition of the first line. Also knowing that depending on the work sometimes it has a title prior to the first line, sometimes not.
Within which feature is the snippets stuff/ Looking at http://git.wikimedia.org/tree/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCirrusSearch.git/mast... it isn't obvious to me which it is.
Thanks. Regards, Billinghurst
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:00:03 -0400, Nikolas Everett neverett@wikimedia.org wrote:
Sorry for writing a novel!
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Guillaume Paumier
wrote:
Hi,
Nik Everett added a lot of information about future CirrusSearch
changes
to the next edition of Tech News (#26, due to be sent on Monday).
(Thank
you, Nik :)
We can't include all of it in the newsletter, so below is the original text with all the details. The newsletter will point to this email for further information.
- CirrusSearch updates (with 1.24wmf10)
- Categories will now be considered in result ranking which
should
improve results - We took a shortcut to get this deployed (much) more quickly and the consequences are that the incategory operator won't work for up to 24 hours after the deployment. We'll make this time as short
as
possible. If this is going to be a horrible pain then file a bug
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=CirrusSearch
against Cirrus with the wiki you work on. We can either prioritize
your
wiki so the outage is very small or, if its a big enough deal, come up
with
a workaround. - Text from the lead paragraph in the article will be given a
boost
when ranking results which should also improve results - This will take some time to roll onto the wikis after wmf10 because the index will have to be rebuilt. Days, likely. - I don't imagine this'll have any impact on wiktionary and commons but file a bug
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=CirrusSearch
against Cirrus if it seems like it has a negative impact on results - We're on track to add support for searching in article source including regular expressions. See [the documentation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#insource:>] for more. - Like the lead paragraph the article source will take some
time
to roll into the index after the deployment. - Right now we haven't implemented snippet extraction from article source searches. You'll only get snippets back from
the
regular search terms. If you don't have any regular search terms
you'll
get back a snippet from the beginning of the article. I know this isn't ideal at all, and its on the list of things to fix. - We'll cut all wikis over to a new snippet extractor - You should only notice improvements in the snippets
generated
but if you see any trouble file a bug
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=CirrusSearch
against Cirrus-- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
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