Lennart,
Conversely, for those of us who don't have ready access/knowledge to add
the variant characters to our searches specific to languages (even if we
know or loops from our chicken scratchings), it becomes difficult to find
things in searches unless they are clumped together. For someone
non-indigenous to the language finding Åland when I can only type or know
Aland means I probably won't find something, which indicates means that
there needs to be some wriggle room here.
When working at Wikidata, especially in your non-native language where
they are not standard ascii characters is very difficult if you don't have
know the characters.
Regards, Billinghurst
On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:14:43 +0000, Lennart Guldbrandsson
<lennart(a)elementx.se> wrote:
Hello,
One problem on Swedish Wikipedia with the current search engine is that
it
just doesn't do characters like å, ä and ö (which
are three common
letters
in Swedish) well. They are lumped together with a and
o respectively,
which
is like getting your i-words lumped together with your
j-words. Åland is
followed by Alaska, for example. So, as one user answered this question,
does this function do this better? If it isn't, why should we test it on
Swedish Wikipedia? His words, not mine.
Best wishes,
Lennart Guldbrandsson
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From: jeanfrederic.wiki(a)gmail.com
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:32:30 +0200
To: wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org
CC: chorohoe(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Would any other wikis like to try
out
a new search?
Hi Nik,
I'm looking for volunteer wikis to try out the new search that Chad and
I've been working on called CirrusSearch.
<sales pitch>Be a part of the second wave of wikis and influence new
search features!</sales pitch>
I would have a question − sorry if it was answered already but I did not
find it mentionned in the
Mediawiki.org pages − please point me to the
right place if so.
* CirrusSearch indexes expanded templates.
How does CirrusSearch handle cross-namespace transclusions like the one
used on Wikisource?
See for example
<https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/On_ne_badine_pas_avec_l%E2%80%99amour>,
which is merely the super-transclusion of text from the Page: namespace.
Search of whatever string from the play text does not (necessarily)
return
the page of the play itself (though your mileage may
vary [1]).
Thanks!
[1] For example,
http://ur1.ca/fwoys does not return me
<https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_mots_tristes> ; but
http://ur1.ca/fwoyt
does return me
<https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Malheur_%C3%A0_moi_!>…